My dentist speaks quietly, with a German accent, through a face mask and a plastic visor. I have to guess what she is saying. When she asked, “is it numb yet?” I said “Yes”, when I should have said “No.” I only recognised my error when she began drilling. But I quickly decided to ‘man-up’ […]

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I always seem to have at least one camera about my person; usually more. Today I picked up four compacts to take with me on my daily ‘keep fit’ walk around the village. By sheer random chance I selected a 7.2 megapixel Casio EX-Z11 with a X3 zoom: a 14.2 megapixel Samsung ES74 with a […]

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Con eso, ambos tapones para los oídos estaban más que felices de regresar a la sala de control para exponer más… “Entonces, ¿cómo te sientes acerca de devolver este barco a la tripulación original?” Magnuss preguntó por Ginger, Bunty y Daisy. “Bueno, sabemos cómo volarlo y todo eso”, respondió Ginger por todos ellos, “pero solo […]

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It was doing precisley this when I arrived; whilst I watched it for a couple of minutes; during the time it took to get out my camera and shoot this picture; and when I was leaving. Very single-minded critter, obviously. But if you take a look at the Flickr version of this, and zoom in, […]

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…this actually meant something? Sadly it doesn’t. After only twelve ‘reads’ this book makes it to the top. I don’t think so. Number One, my foot: what a load of bollocks!

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Chapter 9 As the Tankerville Norris approached the Robotic Justice League’s space station, Bunty, Daisy, Tong-Tong, and Ginger took up stations at Ops… They didn’t really need to – after all the ship could fly itself – but it made them feel useful. They quite enjoyed it too – even Tong-Tong, who was more used […]

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