This week I thought we’d have something a little Christmas-y.
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Something for the Weekend
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
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Advent Calendar 18
Some of My Favourite Images from Other Photographers on Flickr
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Word: Boscage
Boscage or Boskage
1. A mass of growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth; sylvan scenery.
2. The pictorial representation of wooded landscape.
Unsurprisingly this is derived via the Middle English boskage and Old French boscage, from the late Latin boscāticum, wooded country, a thicket.
Boscage is an ancient word with the OED recording the first written usage as early as 1400.
Thinking Thursday #4
OK, so let’s have a little more fun with another Thinking Thursday puzzle. This is an old one, but like all such not too obvious until you know the answer.
then it walks west for one kilometre,
then it walks north for one kilometre
and ends up at the same point from which it started.
What colour is the bear?
As always there’s no prize except the fun of being a smarty-pants and getting it right. But if you want to show off by putting your answer in the comments, then that’s fine with me!
Answer on Sunday evening, as usual.
And also as usual, no cheating!
Advent Calendar 17
Some of My Favourite Images from Other Photographers on Flickr
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Oddity of the Week: Fruity Sex
Humans have certainly found some strange and bizarre places to have sex. Not to be outdone this adaptable couple have selected a series of hinged porcelain fruit for their carnal encounters.
Porcelain fruit, hinged, contains male and female copulating, Oriental
[Wellcome Collection, London]
Although obviously Oriental, apparently no-one is quite sure exactly when or where they come from.
More on some of the ruder exhibits in London’s museums at http://londonist.com/2011/03/the-top-10-rudest-museum-exhibits-in-london.
Advent Calendar 16
Some of My Favourite Images from Other Photographers on Flickr
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Boring!
OK, so we stuck this guy on top of an f***ing great firework and fired him into orbit.
Apart from the fact it is an obscene waste of money and resources …
So what?
Advent Calendar 15
Some of My Favourite Images from Other Photographers on Flickr
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Paris Climate
I see from the Guardian website on Saturday that, as one might have expected, George Monbiot has his knife in the Paris climate deal (and those who perpetrated it). As so often I fear he could be right.