September 11, 2012 – 5:35 pm
If you happen to be wandering down a public footpath that leads nowhere and that teeters on the edge of a cliff somewhere within sight of France and Dungeness Power Station and just out of sight of an official nudist beach, you might spy this … There’s even an incisive and concise explanation … This […]
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Also tagged 42, Agincourt, Antony Gormley, British maritime history, coach screws, concrete, copper, Douglas Adams, Dungeness, France, Hastings, lead, nails, nudist beaches, plumb lines, The Angel of the North, The Angle of the South, washers, wood
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September 5, 2012 – 6:44 pm
astrolabe noun chiefly historical an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant. In its basic form (known from classical times), it consists of a disk with the edge marked in degrees and a pivoted pointer. ORIGIN […]
September 16, 2011 – 6:00 am
Actually not the Irish but the Australians. Last week Lo, she is a terrible Goddess had a check up with the eye surgeon who replaced the lenses in her eyes about eighteen months ago. Everything is fine, so that’s good. Anywho we got chatting to her eye surgeon, Mr Shultz, who is/was Australian, and somehow […]