Life is short; links are many
Apr. 1st, 2010 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustSince it's after midday (here, at least) I don't have to maintain a straight face, do I? Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
poliphilo for the reminder of the BBC's classic 'spaghetti harvest' April Fool - and for the pointer to the thing itself, posted on YouTube by the Alexandra Palace Television Society (they have a web site, but it doesn't look as if they visit it very often). Fifty-year old television!
Despite which, my own favourite remains the Guardian's creation of San Serriffe.
steepholm informs us that Edward Jenner has a museum. Other gentlemen of the eighteenth century decorated their gardens with ruined towers and abbeys, some complete with resident hermit; Jenner's folly was a Temple of Vaccinia, a thatched rustic grotto in which he vaccinated the poor people of the district, without charge. (A note on the web site announces that "A wedding licence is being applied for." I find this... incongruous).
Staying with the medical theme, the wonderful Valerie Laws has won a commendation in the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition. The poem, Lifting the Lid, is part of her continuing work on the medical science of dying - it's beautiful but painful, a bit like staring at the sun. Read it on the Poetry Society's web site.
Shetland Forwirds is a site dedicated to Shetland dialect. There are sound samples from different parts of Shetland (Michael from Fair Isle explains that when his parents were first married, his mother had trouble understanding conversations between her husband and his brothers: she came from as far away as Lerwick - pronouned 'larrick'). There's a dictionary and a collection of idioms (though someone might have told the compiler that in treating 'cast on' as a Shetland term for 'add extra stitches in knitting' he was confusing local dialect and technical jargon). There's an extract from a translation of the Gospel of Saint Mark (direct from Greek into Shetland). And more.
And that's five, so this is no more than an explanatory note, that I found Shetland Forwirds through the web site of Shetland Library, which offers still more good things, including Basement Browsing: As an extra service to our customers, we regularly open up the library basement so that you can have look at some of our reserve stock - lots and lots of extra books for you to browse. (Please note that children under eight must be accompanied by an adult.) (Yes, I know that this probably means that the library is too small - but what a sensible way of tackling that problem!)
poliphilo for the reminder of the BBC's classic 'spaghetti harvest' April Fool - and for the pointer to the thing itself, posted on YouTube by the Alexandra Palace Television Society (they have a web site, but it doesn't look as if they visit it very often). Fifty-year old television!Despite which, my own favourite remains the Guardian's creation of San Serriffe.
steepholm informs us that Edward Jenner has a museum. Other gentlemen of the eighteenth century decorated their gardens with ruined towers and abbeys, some complete with resident hermit; Jenner's folly was a Temple of Vaccinia, a thatched rustic grotto in which he vaccinated the poor people of the district, without charge. (A note on the web site announces that "A wedding licence is being applied for." I find this... incongruous).Staying with the medical theme, the wonderful Valerie Laws has won a commendation in the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition. The poem, Lifting the Lid, is part of her continuing work on the medical science of dying - it's beautiful but painful, a bit like staring at the sun. Read it on the Poetry Society's web site.
Shetland Forwirds is a site dedicated to Shetland dialect. There are sound samples from different parts of Shetland (Michael from Fair Isle explains that when his parents were first married, his mother had trouble understanding conversations between her husband and his brothers: she came from as far away as Lerwick - pronouned 'larrick'). There's a dictionary and a collection of idioms (though someone might have told the compiler that in treating 'cast on' as a Shetland term for 'add extra stitches in knitting' he was confusing local dialect and technical jargon). There's an extract from a translation of the Gospel of Saint Mark (direct from Greek into Shetland). And more.
And that's five, so this is no more than an explanatory note, that I found Shetland Forwirds through the web site of Shetland Library, which offers still more good things, including Basement Browsing: As an extra service to our customers, we regularly open up the library basement so that you can have look at some of our reserve stock - lots and lots of extra books for you to browse. (Please note that children under eight must be accompanied by an adult.) (Yes, I know that this probably means that the library is too small - but what a sensible way of tackling that problem!)
