Jonathan Swift
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quoteoftheday_feed"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
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Anatole France
Apr. 26th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
Charles M. Schulz
Apr. 26th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
Ecological
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poliphilo Phil did something the police considered illegal in connection with a climate protest and is out on remand. I haven't asked what exactly it was but no doubt I'll find out in the course of the day. It seems impolite and possibly insensitive to push for that kind of information.
He's middle-aged, sun burned, soft-spoken......
Quakers have a long history of getting up the noses of those in authority.
Before Phil cycled in we had Wendy here planting potatoes and all sorts of other veg. I am charged with watering everything twice a day. "Don't you mean twice a week?" I pleaded. No. Twice a day, morning and evening.
Did you know that dandelions are wholly edible- root, leaves and flower? They're also medicinal. Particularly good for the kidneys- as the alternative peasant name for them "piss-the-beds" would suggest. We do the earth and ourselves a disservice by treating them as weeds. Wendy and I nibbled a leaf each. Bitter but not unpleasant. She also ate a flower. "Pretty tasteless" she said. We agreed we would cultivate a bed of dandelions alongside all the other veg- and to that end we collected some seeds.
He's middle-aged, sun burned, soft-spoken......
Quakers have a long history of getting up the noses of those in authority.
Before Phil cycled in we had Wendy here planting potatoes and all sorts of other veg. I am charged with watering everything twice a day. "Don't you mean twice a week?" I pleaded. No. Twice a day, morning and evening.
Did you know that dandelions are wholly edible- root, leaves and flower? They're also medicinal. Particularly good for the kidneys- as the alternative peasant name for them "piss-the-beds" would suggest. We do the earth and ourselves a disservice by treating them as weeds. Wendy and I nibbled a leaf each. Bitter but not unpleasant. She also ate a flower. "Pretty tasteless" she said. We agreed we would cultivate a bed of dandelions alongside all the other veg- and to that end we collected some seeds.
I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:02 pmsovayI made no sea creatures in marzipan for my father's birthday observed, but he still liked his strawberry-variant marmalade cake. My brother told stories about driving the Nürburgring with a minivan. I curled up with my husbands.
Martin Mull
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O."
Philip Guedalla
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
Frank Zappa
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
Samuel Butler
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
By Bicycle
Apr. 25th, 2026 08:12 ampoliphilo You show an interest in something online and an algorithm picks up on it and shovels masses of related content in your direction. Currently I'm weltering in a morass of narcissism. OK, that's enough! I get the idea, I now have a layman's grasp of the theories, the subject is not particularly happy-making so lets talk about something else.
How about climate change? We have a chap we've never met coming to address the Quakers on the subject and because Ailz is clerk and I'm an elder we're the ones who are giving him a bed for a couple of nights. The Friend who booked him- but has since backed away from the Meeting House- says he's "lovely". So that's nice.
He'll be arriving by bicycle. From Faversham to Hastings (with a stopover) and from Hastings to here. Clearly he takes his subject seriously.....
How about climate change? We have a chap we've never met coming to address the Quakers on the subject and because Ailz is clerk and I'm an elder we're the ones who are giving him a bed for a couple of nights. The Friend who booked him- but has since backed away from the Meeting House- says he's "lovely". So that's nice.
He'll be arriving by bicycle. From Faversham to Hastings (with a stopover) and from Hastings to here. Clearly he takes his subject seriously.....
And the fisherman collects, yes, they collect the sounds from their nest above
Apr. 24th, 2026 04:19 pmsovayI am frantically cleaning in expectation of niece, but my mother just called to let me know of the fossil discovery of octopods larger than a school bus. It feels apropros that my niece requested sushi for dinner. It makes me almost as happy as the news itself that everyone involved seems to have thought instantly of kraken.
Here and There
Apr. 24th, 2026 01:20 pmsartoriasThere's been a situation that has been making life stressful for the past year, and yesterday the stress doubled. My way of dealing with this kind of cosmic ass kick is to bury myself in writing, where I feel I have a pretence at control. I only say this because I might not be as responsive to posts as usual, and if anyone even notices a dearth of commentary from me (very small chance I realize) it's not you, it's me. Not gone, just coping and scribbling away.
Inside the Holy Rude.
Apr. 24th, 2026 01:08 pmcmcmck
WW1 memorial for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders- the regiment of both his father and grandfather:
I was taken by this window detail:
E. B. White
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."
Sir William Bragg
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."
Woody Allen
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:00 amquoteoftheday_feed"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."