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Continue reading →: Fleas on rats
Isn’t that wonderful? And, unrelatedly (or is it?): I need this. For my office door at work, of course.
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Continue reading →: York goodies
The York Archaeological Trust, publisher of many excellent resources on Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval finds, has very generously made part of their back catalog available for free download. I’m very excited by this, as many of their books have been out of print for decades. I’m hoping that this is a…
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Continue reading →: Tuesday morning
Morgan and I are doing a bit of blogging this morning. (taken from the netbook’s camera to demonstrate the general way in which Morgan is helping) It’s 28F warmer than yesterday morning, but still cold enough that the cat wants to spend all his time glued to me and I’m…
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Continue reading →: Underwear
Katrin posted some information on an Austrian find that includes textiles and even underwear. Renovations at Schloss Lengberg found all kinds of things stuffed inside a wall (actually a spandrel). There’s a brief write-up on the textiles in German (Google English translation) and a German PDF with more pictures. And…
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Continue reading →: Medieval life
I got this from matociquala quite some time ago, and yet didn’t get it posted. They got a lot of things right; I only saw one thing that make me cringe. This article suggests that codpieces were a medical as well as fashion statement. It sounds like a “just so…
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Continue reading →: A veritable feast
The New Year started like this (and apologies to those who’ve seen this, but photos of dawn on 1/1 are rather indistinguishable). It continued with a great deal of cooking and eating. We’ve gotten together with Lynn and Charlie very nearly every New Year’s Day that we’ve been in the…
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Continue reading →: Caterpillar NOM
My mother sent the dog and cat a holiday package (the grandcritters!) and as always we opened it on Christmas morning. Morgan got his toy first, while the dog was out in the yard: a stripy stuffed caterpillar that is the best thing ever. The Ferocious Monster finally demonstrates the…
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Continue reading →: Holiday cheer
Merry Christmas everyone! (via matociquala) You might also like Christmas in space. I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas have a lovely day, with the food you love and the people you love. I wish the same for those of you who do not celebrate Christmas: why should love…
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Continue reading →: Running out of days
It’s getting very hard to narrow down the musical selections. But how about some Japanese pop music today? Time to bake the pies!
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Continue reading →: Sheep!
LEGO sheep! And a wolf! From the LEGO Shave a Sheep game (called Wild Wool in North America-apparently shaving your sheep is too naughty for us; via Juno). But what do I really want for Christmas? (And zombies for the brave!)
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
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