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The scene: Middle Earth. Saruman and his servant Wormtongue stand high aloft the tower of Isengard, looking out at vast army of orcs that reaches as far as the eye can see. Saruman sighs happily and turns to Wormtongue. S: Ah, Wormtongue, is not my army of fighting uruk-hai truly magnificent?” W: Absolutely, my […] 
Now, I’m not usually one to complain (Editor, quoting Bender the robot from Futurama: “Ahahaha. Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder”) but I’m starting to think that tourism up here is getting a bit out of hand. A lot of this is down to the North Coast 500, a clever marketing […] 
Let’s start with the jumper for a change: the Flamborough gansey is finished, washed and blocked and ready to go. When they’re being knitted, ganseys bunch up rather so you don’t always get an accurate view of how they’re going to look; but equally, immediately after blocking can be equally misleading. They need a […] 
It’s been a week bookended by explosions and drifting clouds of smoke. To start at the end, last night was the finish of gala week, which always culminates in a very pretty firework display down by the river. For once the weather was kind and sunset elided into a clear night of soft blue […] 
“Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” Not my words, but those of St Paul marvelling at how swiftly his new windows were installed in 54 AD. And so it was with us—maybe not in […] |
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