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Looks like a cross between a vanilla slice and a lammington!

She Who Delivers: The story behind Christine Holgate's fall and rise Christine Holgate on turning a staggering Toll into a flourishing Team Global Express

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Front of the card, showing two ships in calm water with sails slack. A label in the water below them reads: "Dutch eel boat." They are somewhat orange in color, suggesting a setting sun -- another indication that they are not British. The shadow from the boats looks an unhealthy green on the water, which is perhaps appropriate for the Thames. Overall, the whole image is done in washed out citrus-y colors, which makes it warm and inviting, and also a good source of Vitamin C. These ships and their predecessors supplied live eels to London for something like 500 years. You've never done anything for that long in your whole life. And you never will. Eel ships were there during the War of the Roses, and during Shakespeare's life, and during WWI. They are gone and forgotten now, but they were once a part of the living city.

The back of the card, with text describing the ships. The text is surrounded by a framing of ropes, with some blocks and tackles and hooks and such. It looks very nautical. The text which these lines frame reads thus: "Ships of All Ages, a series of 50. No. 25. Dutch Eel Boat The Thames barge is considered to be of Dutch origin, and it sometiems meets in the estuary its relative, the Dutch eel schuyt, which, like the barge, is designated for work on both salt and fresh water. The schuyt is typically Dutch, stoutly built and comfortable looking, and is considered to be the most representative of the seagoing craft of Holland; it is also easily navigated on the crowded canals of the country. Issued by Nicolas Sarony & Co. 84 Picadilly London, W.I." FTR -- if someone describes you as stoutly built and comfortable looking, you should object. Unless you're an eel ship. Are you an eel ship?

I got into eel history by studying the Dutch eel ships on the Thames. We don't generally remember them much now, but they were there from the c.1470 - 1938.

They used to be low-key famous, even appearing in Nicolas Sarony's 1929 cigarette card collection, "Ships of All Ages."
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A corded table lamp, aka an artex mushroom. It's white, with a textured surface. And it's shaped like a mushroom! It's been turned on, and casts a muted glow on the wooden dining table it has been placed on.

In an attempt to dislodge thoughts about the miseries of the world, I present to you my latest home furnishing purchase. Bunnings calls it a corded table lamp, which is true but unimaginative. I prefer my description: an 'artex mushroom'.

^ what they all said 😞

Always worth the effort 😋

Chrome won't get you home 😉 Not my bag 🤷‍♀️

More furious discussion at my anti-natal class last week about the spelling and whether I should even be there, given my views.

This is never not funny!!

Boo! Icecream for the win 😉

Not watching (because the prog irritates me). Hope it's black sesame icecream that's being made.... love that stuff🍦

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Photo of an abandoned colourful party hat lying on a pavement

Evidence here of a recent outbreak of fun

Yello - RubberBandMan (Official Video), Full HD (Digitally Remastered and Upscaled) YouTube video by Enhanced Music Videos

Playing vinyls. #RandomPlay means this got a spin. They don't make 'em like this no more LOL youtube.com/watch?v=XGQ7...

That looks like fun!

Yum 😋

Nearly-new tyre, too 😞

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

Proper LOL, which is wrong but....

I have made up a fake Google review for the Straight of Hormuz

At least if the Strait of Hormuz was a cafe you could Google to see if it was open or not

What i didn't mention was that at the start I had an air leak at the carbie manifold. Now fixed. But I've also since changed the air filter.... and later put one of those drain holes / hoses on the air filter because of the blowback accumulating in the elbow of the rubber bellows 😁

Oh wow 👌 👏 😍

*good gig

I hope your ears are still ringing also... all are signs that it was a gig gig LOL

Not game for that malarkey!!