I did enjoy that. Skies skies skies. Hard to focus on anything else. Weird bagpipes though.
P.S. "category: cars and vehicles"? Mmhm.
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“When is the first day of Spring 2018”
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I really like that video!
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Despite the snow, it's definitely spring. Bulbs are growing leaves down at the allotment, through the melting snow. Garlic growing too.
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Is that a typo on the Brinno website or are they just being insulting?:
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Even you can upload your time lapse video to Youtube or Vimeo immediately
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It's definitely feeling more like spring again today.
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@jdanielp
Yes, the res is oddly low. Must check it's actually in focus...
It wasn't camouflaged as the spot was good and most people a) not there b) unobservant and c) honest but I do intend to make it a small ghillie suit at some point.
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The Beginning of Spring is a monumentally brilliant novel set in Moscow just before the revolution by the consistently superb doughty trot Penelope Fitzgerald. Quite short for a Russian novel. Very Russian given the author was a wee English wifie whose dad Evo Knox was the editor of Punch and whose uncle Ronald Knox was Evelyn Waugh's Priest and whose other uncles were Church of England priests and bishops
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gembo-san, you're on the wrong thread for the books
but since we're here, have you read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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@bax-San you are both totally correct and yet also in a parallel universe, a wee bit wrong as the book has almost the same name as the thread.
I read darkness at noon as a callow youth. It was an entry level into my fixation on Doestoyevski ( spelling?). Why did a 16 year old tholing it out in Ayr have such an interest in the Lubyanka Prison? I don't know. Why would you read a book called The Idiots where 100 pages in the main characters have still not appeared?
In koestler's Lubyanka despite the freezing cold you had to keep your arms above the covers
The clever cons had little strips of covers for their arms which the guards tolerated.
Read another Koestler book about toads and vaguely knew Prof Bob Morris the first Koestler Chair in Parapsychology. He was a dab hand at statistics. Most paranormal activity has about a less than chance level of occurring. Or if you like the phenomenon e.g known as the quickening is more likely to occur by chance than it is by paranormal explanation (e.g guessing what card it is etc). Obviously the Quickening has a much higher than chance level of occurring if you have just created Harper Rig and are descending down that Lang Whang to Edinboro' as Bob called it.
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i remember in the introduction to Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse bemoaned the fact that his work was getting into the hands of younger readers, for whom it was not intended
i think he had it the wrong way round really
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Many younger readers would be disappointed with Herman's Glass Bead Game, being not about Glass Beads or Games?
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