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311/365: Mural, Cripplegate Park, Worcester
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I spent a good deal of time on buses today, which was always my intention. What wasn't my intention was spending quite so long on them! The bus from Redditch to Kidderminster was a bit of a nightmare, ending up over 45 minutes late thanks to a combination of roadworks and the apparent need for some teenagers to be given a lift half a mile home after school... Before that I had at least had fun, finally managing to do the 149 bus (Worcester-Redditch via Inkberrow) which I'd wanted to try for a while. It's a country route but one which uses double-deckers, and I managed to get a seat at the very front of the top deck, which is always fun. We did smack into quite a few smaller branches along the way, but that's part of the deal with these routes

My final bus back to Bewdley was electric. Amid the ongoing Ashes embarrassment, I couldn't help being secretly mildly amused that the bus was made by Custom Denning, an Australian company, and really didn't put in a brilliant performance. The highlight – or maybe lowlight – was it coming to a complete halt on the edge of a small road on the edge of town, and everything going dark (it was about 5pm by then). The previous bus had been a conventional diesel one built by Alexander Dennis, but they're Scottish so I can't claim them in cricketing terms!

The photo shows a mural in Cripplegate Park, Worcester. Unfortunately I don't know its title or artist.

Current Mood: frustrated

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310/365: Star Wars Stormtrooper decal
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This van was parked in Bewdley today. Slightly to my relief, the back door did not open to reveal a bunch of heavily armed Stormtroopers. At least it was a little moment of levity on a thoroughly grey and damp day.

Current Mood: amused

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309/365: Kemp Hospice shop china section, Bewdley
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The unicorn being me, of course. :P I had a pretty dull Sunday, but sometimes just sitting and watching the telly or reading an easy book is all you want. The weather wasn't really good enough to entice me outside any more than I had to, although I did have to go to Sainsbury's to pick up a loaf as I was running short. I also popped into the Kemp Hospice shop and nosed about for a little while. Here's a photo of their fairly extensive china shelving, where I occasionally find a mug I like. Not today, though.

And yes, I am avoiding talking about the cricket. :S

Current Mood: tired

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308/365: Inside Worcester Cathedral (taken before the service began)
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I wanted to go into Worcester today to experience the Christmas Fayre for a bit. Unfortunately a signalling problem on the railways meant I had to go by road, which took longer. (The buses were running; they're just slower.) I had a muffin – apple and cinnamon flavour – and two or three coffees during the day. I also popped into Worcester Cathedral for the Shoppers' Carol Service. I'm not religious, but I do enjoy these: four popular carols,¹ a few Bible readings and a prayer or two, all packed into about half an hour. It started raining just as we filed back into the open, so I chose to come home not long afterwards.

¹ O Come All Ye Faithful, Away in a Manger, While Shepherds Watched, O Little Town of Bethlehem.

Current Mood: busy

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307/365: Bewdley bypass
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Because I'd been occupied with necessary but boring work, I didn't get out of the house today until well into the afternoon. When I did manage it, I walked out to the south of the town, towards Ribbesford but then veering off along Heightington Lane until I got to the bridge over the Bewdley bypass. This is a pretty boring walk in drizzly conditions, but it did at least let me take a pretty boring photo to go with it! :D

Current Mood: bored

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I mostly post about: I don't use it to post anything right now, I forgot I had this journal to be honest lol. I am going to turn it into a fandom/graphics blog though, with some other stuff sprinkled in probably. I don't usually post personal stuff online but have no problem discussing it with people in PM/DM if they're interested learning about me, etc..

My hobbies are: Fandom roleplaying (I only play fandom characters, but will rp with fandom or oc characters), gaming (mostly MMO's), reading manga or fanfics, watching anime or anything that catches my interest, getting back into icon/graphic making cuz I miss it, listening to music, watching movies.

My fandoms are: Teen Wolf (MTV show), Trigun Manga/Anime, and various others I'm trying to keep up with lol but those two are my biggest fixations right now.

I'm looking to meet people who: Have the same interests, being near or the same age is not necessary. I have friends from all different age ranges/walks of life.

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Before adding me, you should know: I am chronically online due to medical issues/being disabled so I am around a LOT. Going to be around even more so due to our work's reduction of hours they're putting into place soon so I'm going to have a LOT of free time coming up to work with lol. I also mostly connect through either Discord or Plurk.

A fun fact about me is that I have a Guinness World Record and a star named after me. :)

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306/365: Paolozzi Mosaics, Redditch
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I was in Redditch largely for boring reasons today, but I did have time for a coffee and a little wander. Sadly the previously relaxingly roomy Starbucks in Sainsbury's has been cut in half by a new Specsavers and it's nowhere near as pleasant now. So I went to the Royal Enfield (the town's Wetherspoons) and had coffee there instead. Later I pottered around the Kingfisher Centre, which isn't the most thrilling place but does have this quite interesting wall art at one end of the mall. They're the Paolozzi Mosaics, unveiled in 1983 and created by Eduardo Paolozzi.

Current Mood: peaceful

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305/365: Hartlebury Common
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I was in Stourport today, which despite its being only a few miles away isn't a town I visit very much. I had a nice English breakfast in the Open Kitchen in the centre, had a quick look at the river, then walked out to the edge of Hartlebury Common – see photo above. For early December it was a really nice day, with even a little warmth in the sunshine. I only saw a couple of other people in twenty minutes or so of walking. Then it was back to town to do a little bit of unexciting shopping. In all honesty, I've had plenty of worse days. :)

Current Mood: cheerful

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I write about my learning journey from zero (not really) to masters in Computer Science, with the goal of getting formal admissions into a program under 2 years. I have a lot of IT applied experience, but now I want to be able to master the material and also for myself learn as much as I can about the topics of programming systems, Linux, and math. For math, I really do know very little. I would very much like to improve that.

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I like to play video games, take walks, and exercise. My favorite games right now are Lord of the Rings Online and Guild Wars. I also play retro games and am going through the Harvest Moon series on the original DS.

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I don't invest a lot of energy into fandoms. But I like Linux. I think that counts.

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Journals about goals, dreams, and ideas. I do enjoy reading about criticisms, first draft essays, and general naval gazing.

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc

Sporadic with a weekly update on what I'm learning.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

I want to avoid negative spaces, so if you are constantly ranting about how terrible things are, I understand. I'm going to put a positive energy in my journal.

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304/365: Newsham Fire Engine
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Another very quick post tonight. This is a Newsham Water Engine in Bewdley Museum, dating from the eighteenth century. This kind of engine was developed by Richard Newsham early in that century and remained dominant for fifty years. Some examples seem to have still been in use in the early nineteenth century, a hundred years on from their introduction.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: The Move – Fire Brigade

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303/365: Restored building, Bewdley
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Nothing special, just a nicely restored building in Stourport Road. The River Severn is a few metres out of shot to the right.

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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302/365: Empty fairground rides
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I had to miss a meetup with friends today owing to an earlier commitment, so I consoled myself with a trip into town in the afternoon. Today was the switch-on date for Bewdley's Christmas lights, so naturally it rained half the time! I didn't feel like staying for the actual big moment, but I did wander around the stalls earlier and had a pistachio... well, it was basically a Berliner, but called by a Polish name I can't remember. Very nice, though. Have a photo of the rides in the car park before they'd actually opened. :P

Current Mood: tired

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301/365: Gift-wrapped building, Bewdley
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I had a lot going on today, although very little of it involved me doing things that are actually interesting and relevant to post here! I also got wet when it rained earlier than it was supposed to. Ah well. Have a photo of Merchants (the chippy in Bewdley) gift-wrapped for the season! I haven't seen the place do this before, but it's really effective considering the fairly minimal decoration used. Those picnic tables are a bit of a triumph of hope over experience, though!

Current Mood: stressed

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I've been working elsewhere on this, hence I no longer post much about it here. But suffice to say that the sheer volume of publicly available material I've found to support the idea that Sandra Peabody was seriously psychologically/emotionally abused while making The Last House on the Left in the early 1970s is reaching the point where major questions need to be asked about why the hell the horror (and indeed wider film) media haven't been covering this. It's eight years now since Weinstein and #MeToo broke. They've had more than long enough.

Current Mood: sad

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300/365: Pub table carving, Bewdley
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Yeah, okay, maybe that title doesn't work. But this is post 300 in the photo series! This is one of a series of carvings in a similar style on the sides of outdoor pub tables. They all belong to one of the pubs in Bewdley, though understandably they're not getting a whole lot of use at the moment! Just a nice bit of silliness. Meanwhile, I did some unexciting shopping today, but was pleased to find the secret-flavour Pringles (a kind of mushroom/truffle taste) being sold off in Tesco Express for 56p a tube. Hard to argue with a price like that! Cheered me up on a very grey and gloomy afternoon.

Current Mood: silly

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Daily life ,books, video games.

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I post random. I do read though.

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299/365: Ice on a car roof
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It's been a long time coming, but we finally had an actual air frost here last night. Minus three is not exactly astonishing, and I'll wait here for all the people from genuinely frigid climes to point out that they sunbathe in T-shirts until it's barely above absolute zero. But it's cold for here, all right? :P This is a close-up of ice crystals on the roof of a car near where I live. Just taken with my phone camera, so the macro stuff isn't especially brilliant, but I hope you get the idea. It was fairly misty early on, too, although that lifted reasonably quickly once the sun was properly up around eight o'clock.

Current Mood: cold

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298/365: Aston Martin DB9
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Yes, it's time for Logan to be too tired to think of an interesting subject line and so give up trying entirely! I'm not doing a great deal more with the actual body text either, am I? Suffice to say that this is a 2007 Aston Martin DB9 that I spotted parked in Bewdley. It seems to have been off rallying or something judging by the amount of marks on it! (Don't worry, they're just dirt, not scratches.) Still, not often I see one of these, so I photographed it anyway.

Current Mood: okay

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Worcester Christmas Fayre

Two lorries on a road. My photos get more and more exciting...

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