"The question is not why, but why has it taken so long? Putting heavy metal and classical together that is"
Has the writer been asleep for the past twenty years and missed listening to Epica, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Leaves Eyes, Delain, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica, and so many more?
I also had a sober and very reliable friend, the kind who doesn'tmake up tall stories, living in a cottage out near Burrator who certainly saw a large cat as he got out his car one night. He told me he was petrified and stood still as it calmy walked by him and back into the trees.
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I know the keepers at Dartmoor Wildlife Park in the late 1990s believed there was a wild lynx nearby as occasionally their female lynx would start acting up as if a male was near by.
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A post discovered on substack today.
Good luck with that. The US Embassy in London still hasn't paid their Congestion Zone/ULEZ fees to Transport for London.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More worrying are the ones that do believe in Climate Change but don't care about it because it's part of God's plan for the End of Days.
Sitting outside in the garden, in the sun, reading The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
For #WorldPoetryDay here's a link to a poem I posted last year.
This is the first in a series of four works, two uploaded so far. The only poem in the set though.
headjames.substack.com/p/the-claw
Every British person over 45 reading this is whispering to themselves:
"Whatever you do, don't mention the war. I did but I think I got away with it."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The FBI Uncertainty Principe? They know where people are but not what they're doing.
I am reminded of an episode of Babylon 5 where the Centauri are thrown off Narn and the Narn want G'Kar to be their new 'Emperor'.
He replies something along the lines of:
You've just thrown one dictator off that throne. Would you put another on there so quickly?
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An Iranian caller living in Scotland to the BBC last week said the majority of Iranians, both in exile and living in Iran, favour the Shah's son returning.
If this happens I can't see it having a good ending.
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Americans install a tin-pot right-wing dictator in another part of the world who will get rich exploiting the country's resources for himself and the US whilst using a secret police force to put down any signs of revolt.
Haven't seen that before.
What could possibly go wrong?
An Iranian phoning into BBC Radio yesterday suggested a majority of Iranians support the son of the last Shah.
I fear it'll be swapping one Dictatorship for another, either US backed or choosen by themselves.
Wonder if Trump asked if she'd like to come and have a look at his gravel pit? (It's the biggest and best gravel pit. No one does gravel pits like Trump)
Babylon 5 forums have suggested it's the rash from Trump's 'keeper'.
This has been asked in other forums. The answer is they did/do have firearms available but the pilots didn't see the need to retrieve them or brandish them under the circumstances and in one of the situations was able to quickly de-escalate the situation quickly without firearms.
#WIPSnips
'Face'
Working title is 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'.
By the way, this woman? She's not Mary.
Many of those watching Shakespeare's first performance of Romeo and Juliet would have already been familiar with the story.
Romeo and Juliet was in itself a retelling by Shakespeare of an older Italian story written by Matteo Bandello and translated in English by Arthur Brooke and rewritten by William Painter.
It wasn't the only one of Bandello's works that Shakespeare adapted.
Thanks. I don't think of myself as very literary though.
Tony doesn't want his.
That's all I'll say.
After John Finnermore's sketch, I always think of Victor Hugo as the Big Nosed Novelist from Montmartre.
youtu.be/F3V8IO4C-4o?...
#TimeTravelAuthors prompts, February 2026
Day 25 #TimeTravelAuthors
A snippet, with something close to a glow.
Tony stared at the small translucent cube in his hand. A radiant spectrum of light refracted brilliantly along its facets;
(I shall leave it there because of Spoilers)
Carolyn J Cherryh, Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid, Elly Griffiths, Agatha Christie. Anne McCaffrey, Enid Blyton. Mary Carey, E Nesbit, Kelly Armstrong, Margaret Wiess, and several Hardy Boys books off the top of my head.
Time travel would be the last thing on Rosina's mind. There would not be many examples she would have read, but perhaps The Box of Delights by John Masefield she'd have read when younger.
She might appreciate Lest Darkness Falls by Lyon Sprague de Camp.
Day 23 #TimeTravelAuthors 2/2
February 2026 prompts for #TimeTravelAuthors
Day 23 #TimeTravelAuthors. I had to think about this.
Rosina would enjoy For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemmingway or The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. She might have gotten hold of a copy of Hemmingway before the story - perhaps.
Tony would appreciate the film Arrival. He'd resonate with it.
[spoilers]
A Floorgasim on Gridogram, Imaginarium that.
Spoilers.
Tom Sharpe, The Groops