During WWII, my dad was posted to guard a munitions factory in Worcester. Mum worked in that factory. Evidently dad was initially interested in one of mum’s friends, but they hit it off shortly afterwards.
After they married, dad brought her back to a smallholding in rural East Anglia, where he lived with his parents and three siblings. They apparently thought that mum’s Worcester accent was Welsh.
Read using REadEra, play Forge of Empires - plus Lemmy via Voyager.
I had the usual lessons at primary school, but at the end of those myself and one other in the class still couldn’t swim. In the half century since then I have never found the need or the desire to try again.
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Clearly I don’t know in this case, but in the (much, much smaller) cases that I have been involved in in the past, it was most often through documents recovered from among the waste itself - which had names and addresses on.
Althoguh, in this case, there were a great many truckloads dumped, so it may have been through tracing those vehicles perhaps.
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Not deliberate on my part. I think that it might be a seasonal thing to some extent, with a good many projects producing annual reports around now - and the big successes are the ones that get publicised the most ,and other projects being announced/getting underway.
I wouldn’t be surprised that we will get another round of sewage spills and other pollution news as (if) we get heavier rain in the coming couple of months for example - another seasonal effect.
I have always read, but it is only in the last decade or so - prompted by the internet, of course - that have thought about counting the books that I do read. Since then, the lowest in a year has been around 6 (an extremely busy year) and the highest around 60. A normal year is probably closer to the latter than the former. I am half way through my 3rd book so far this year.
However, just at the moment I am reading that book - Consider Phlebas - partly as e-book and partly as an audiobook, depending on where I am and what I am doing. Does that count? I am finding myself doing this more often lately.
No, nothing like that really. Sure, my body was running on serotonin after a while so I was probably unduly relaxed and positive, but nothing like hallucinations or anything. When I found that that the no-sleep record was only 3 days longer than I had gone, I was a bit surprised, since it hadn’t really seemed that hard so far, but I am sure that I would have experienced something more serious before long.
Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
No. I had nothing much going on for a while and just randomly decided to see what it would be like. Yes, it was ‘unusual’, but ‘unusual’ has been quite common for me over the years one way or another.
It was some time after this that I discovered what the record for not sleeping was at the time (around 10 days as I recall). It is probably just as well that I did not know that at the time, or I would have tried to beat it - not that I was being supervised or anything, so it wouldn’t have counted, but…
When I was around 16 or so I decided not to sleep or eat for a week, which I did - so it would be that.
I was fine, overall, but did get some leg cramps when I cycled 12 miles on the last day. I had no great desire to eat at the end - that had faded over the week, really, but it came back pretty soon once I did actually get something down.
Of course, it is a very different thing if you decide not to eat, and have no particular stresses or anything going on to being deprived of food.
Yes, I had read that they were all stand alone and I may do, but I will give CP a while longer before I do. I don’t dislike it, but following PHM, it is a rather different pacing.
Brown Hares are a bit of an oddity. They were introduced to the UK during or before the Roman occupation and are thoroughly naturalised now. They are in decline because of habitat loss etc, and are considered a priority species for conservation but, as an introduced species, have very little legal protection.
There is also the Mountain Hare in the UK, which is a native species, but is much rarer and more protected.
It proved to be a busy week, so I have not quite finished either Hyperion or Confessions…. However, I would definitely recommend Hyperion. Each section is better than the previous, taking in a great range of genres and telling some very human tales against some excellent worldbuilding.
Confessions is a curiosity, and probably not for everyone, but I am glad to have (almost) read it.
I’d suggest taking a look here.
No - I have worn moccasins around the house, at least in the winter, since I was a kid and make-them-yourself kits were in fashion back in the '70s. No idea how many pairs I have had since then.
Moccasins.
I work for a national charity in the UK. The organisation’s policies have been dragged into the culture wars, but have not succumbed so far.
My role isn’t directly involved with that side of things though. When planning, I am considering things like potential future supply chain issues, security of/access to services, potential threats, likely changes in resource use, likely changes to legislation and so on, all of which can be affected by national and international politics but, day-to-day, politics doesn’t have a great effect beyond those.