@mudlark

Many thanks! And here’s another(growing beneath a blackthorn hedge that backed onto a garden). A friend suggests lesser periwinkle.

@mudlark (and not madlark, as I just accidentally typed and nearly didn’t spot!)

Many thanks. Have had an alternative id of dog violet, but I think the sheen on the leaves supports your conclusion.

Paging @mudlark, paging…

Any idea what this is (in woodland)?

CAUTION: These rocks are Silurian:

A few years ago a violent storm unearthed the thing is this images (click for more). Those aren’t rocks, but petrified trees from a long-since inundated forest. It is quite unlike anything I’ve seen and downright alien (but probably too precious to be used for any TV shows we might…[Read more]

@craig

Looks like it is time for a new Music thread…

@thane16

It is considered to be permanent and remission only temporary. But the new diet shows promise in terms of “jump-starting” the pancreas. However, the permanence (as well as unintended consequences) is what further research is needed for.

75 years ago today…

@bluesqueakpip

It is certainly very promising, but a) science is only as good as the last replication and b) it needs evaluating for other effects – long term, for instance –  beyond the hypothesised.

@bluesqueakpip

Indeed, also known as the Newcastle diet on account of where the pilot research was done. It’s very promising, but worth noting that it is still early days, and a lot of signal-noise ratio needs to be resolved.

@mudlark @thane16 @janetteb @winston

For preference they should be eaten with lemon juice and sugar

By which you mean that is how you prefer them. Much as lemon and sugar gives me warm memories of mum, pre-diabetes I would happily swamp them in maple syrup, for the simple reason that maple syrup is the greatest creation of nature But there are…[Read more]

@winston @thane16

(moved to pub)

Ta for the kind words. It was an unexpectedly challenging shoot, since for the first week of March the sun was high and bright, so contrast from heavy was a real problem.

The pancake race itself has run since 1445 and is open ONLY to the women of the town (pop c8000). Legend has it that it started when the wife…[Read more]

@whisht

I tried to find the lyrics and discovered that the lyricist went through their own conversion – quite a story.

Written in Olney, and one of the Olney Hymns.

And with that in mind, gratuitous excuse to show photos from this year’s Olney Pancake Race (annual since 1445).Click pic for m…[Read more]

@rosasucksandsodoess11

Yeah, not really trying there are you?

@thane16

It wasn’t Woodstock, it was Monterrey. You can see at the beginning of the clip where a myth might come from. The bemused crowd is a joy.

@craig

^^^^^^ Something in this thread does not belong ^^^^^^^

Not many Monkees songs with Peter Tork (RIP) on vocals:

@cathannabel

So sorry for your loss – even though in some ways the release from Alzheimer’s could be seen as a mercy, it is still brutal when it comes,

Buffy: Was it sudden?

Tara: No…..Yes – it’s always sudden.

@whisht @thane16

Very good – A Bit of Fry and Laurie varied from outstanding to a a bit try-hard, but a scary number of their skits have all aged too well.

OK, time to go all in with the 80s politics. Spitting Image.

It is crucial to grasp, for this, that a) the thug PW Botha was still very much in charge and the idea of Nelson Mandela being…[Read more]