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An instagram picture: Heron and seagulls, #hydepark #london #birds. Never seen a heron on a roof before and never with #seagulls
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The Beggar and the Fat Man
An old rabbi, almost penniless himself, lived in a small town in Russia. If ever a beggar asked him for money, he would always oblige, even if it was only a tiny amount. One day, his grandson asked him, “Grandpa, don’t you think those people are just fooling you, that they don’t actually need the… — read more
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An instagram picture: I’ve always wanted a magnetic rack for my #kitchen #knives but have never got round to it until now. Happy with this. L to R: Sabatier (carbon), Robert Herder (very thin knife great for veggies), one-off knife from Hungarian maker Jenesec, a real powerhouse, handmade knife from a Dutch maker (with Niolox steel and bog oak in the handle plus some mammoth Ivory), and three Pallares Solsona blades which are a delight in the kitchen.
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An instagram picture: With Ulises, the Arab cross Breton #horse in the #Pyrenees
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An instagram picture: Stan the #dog models a fetching rust-red #beret from Boneteria Auloronesa #terriers #fashionista #hats
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LAU: an unusual Scottish anarcho-folk band
https://rd.io/i/QX06Rzdckz8E/ I was in Fopp this morning and heard this band, Lau. Two Scottish guys and an hon. Scot (from Cambridge), they play a mix of trad tunes and jazz inspired modern material of their own. Here’s what the Rdio bio of them concludes: Their debut album, Lightweights & Gentlemen, a mix of their own… — read more
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Zen photography tips
From Tom Chandler: Zen Tip #2: Compose your pictures in two dimensions – as if you were painting them This is might be the single most important Zen photo tip you’ll ever read (as if you’ll ever see another Zen photo hints article). Most amateur photographers make the same mistake; they pick up their camera… — read more
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The Asshole Factory
Great article from Umair Haque on the sterility of the modern world: The Great Enterprise of the Age of Stagnation is the wholesale manufacture not of great, world-shaking, ground-breaking ideas, inventions, concerns…but of bigger and bigger assholes. The chain-store; the mall; the hypermarket. The corporation; the firm; the partnership. B-school; law school; med school. The… — read more
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The Unquiet Grave
I love the absolute clarity of this description by Cyril Connolly of life (or at least his life) in the Med in the late 30s: ‘Early morning on the Mediterranean: bright air resinous with Aleppo pine, water spraying over the gleaming tarmac of the Route Nationale and darkly reflecting the spring-summer green of the planes;… — read more
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A Turk appears in an Australian court
WARNING: Not for the very easily offended, but apparently true. And outrageously funny. Transcript from a pretrial hearing that took place on May 5 1997 in a criminal court in Adelaide, Australia, before Judge Roy Grubb. In the transcript, the prisoner is Yusuf Biyikli, a Turkish immigrant charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Mr… — read more
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