A thank-you for your coracle and river-craft heritage volunteers: builders and workshop volunteers, paddlers and demonstrators, safety volunteers on the bank, archive and oral history, education, the stall, the trustees and the founders. A coracle drying on the riverbank, hands weaving the frame or a boat turning on still water as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, river safety, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your umbrella and walking-stick museum volunteers: guides, demonstrators, workshop and restoration volunteers, stick makers and stick dressers, collections and archive, education, shop and café volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A rack of old umbrellas, a carved stick handle or the workshop bench as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, collection and workshop care, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
Tout vas bien :
Le Emissions Gap Report 2026 estime que les politiques actuelles conduisent vers environ 2,8 °C de réchauffement, ou 2,6 °C si les engagements nationaux sont intégralement appliqués. Le scénario le plus favorable limiterait le pic à 1,7–1,8 °C avant un éventuel retour sous 1,5 °C :
il exige une réduction mondiale des émissions de 18 % d’ici 2030, 45 % d’ici 2035 et 69 % d’ici 2040, par rapport à 2025.
Metod Rybar – Personal Blog
• Metod Rybar
There was not one God. “Reading a Bible translation today, the text seems to speak everywhere of a generic “God” or “the Lord”. This, however, is a linguistic illusion produced by later confessional versions, which flattened and standardised under abstract categories the distinct proper names and epithets of the oldest Hebrew codices” https://andreafontana.it/en/birth-god-israel-yahweh-el.html
A thank-you for your clock and watch museum volunteers: guides, winders, restoration and repair volunteers, collections and archive, education, shop and café volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A longcase clock in the gallery, a watch movement under the loupe or a wall of ticking clocks as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, clocks and collection care, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your typewriter museum volunteers and the people around them: guides, demonstrators, repair and restoration volunteers, collections, archive and research, oral history, education, shop, café and events volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A row of old typewriters, a page typed on the demonstration machine or a close-up of the keys as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, machine and collection care, an honest word about the typewriter and the typing pool, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
Evidence-based UK review of honokiol for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-10-21.
A thank-you for your match factory museum volunteers and the people around them: guides, demonstrators, machinery and engineering, collections, matchbox label volunteers and collectors, archive, family history, oral history, education, shop and café volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A wall of old matchbox labels, a tray of match splints or the old works clock as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, fire, chemical, machine and collection safety, an honest word about the factory and the match girls, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
Read: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚 Great fun as the author plays with the conventions of the country house mystery. The characters in the big house are particularly awful and often laugh out loud funny.
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
Cubes came down the conveyor all mixed up, and by the time the bell rang we all saw spinning squares behind our eyelids. One colour out of place and our pay was docked – and there was little enough of it to take from us. On the day I retired, I
i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.
A thank-you for your pencil museum volunteers and the people around them: guides, pencil-making demonstrators, drawing and art workshop volunteers, engineering and machinery, collections, archive, family history, oral history, education, shop and café volunteers, the trustees and the founders. A fan of coloured pencils, a row of grooved cedar slats or an old pencil tin as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, sharp points, machine, dust and collection safety, an honest word about the works, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
