Covid-19 – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:48:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Turned out nice again http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:10:14 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3309 With the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict imminent, two Brits – one Stanley-based and one in Buenos Aires – discuss that ‘hottest’ of all conversational potatoes… the weather.

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]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/feed/ 0 (Re)building a library http://www.ashsmyth.com/rebuilding-a-library/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/rebuilding-a-library/#respond Fri, 21 May 2021 16:12:40 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3215 Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic.

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]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/rebuilding-a-library/feed/ 0 Zooming windows http://www.ashsmyth.com/zooming-windows/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/zooming-windows/#respond Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:33:20 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3206 Interview with members of the George Formby Society, as they attempt to break an online ukulele-playing record.

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]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/zooming-windows/feed/ 0 In-line, online, and where to draw the line? http://www.ashsmyth.com/in-line-online-and-where-to-draw-the-line/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/in-line-online-and-where-to-draw-the-line/#respond Sun, 04 Oct 2020 03:08:29 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3129 Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19.

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]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/booksheds/feed/ 0 NEWS AT A GLANCE http://www.ashsmyth.com/news-at-a-glance-59/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/news-at-a-glance-59/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 09:06:38 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2961 .
In the United States only one about one building in three thousand is even nominally fire-proof.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, March 14 1907
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Ellis Paz has become the first man in history to be awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford while wearing just his pants.

Matthew Perry once entered a Vanilla Ice lookalike competition and came fourth.

There is no single recognised word for ‘gay’ in Pashto.

Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps.

Air India have bespoke a special plane in order to transport the sacred Parsee flame.

There are few bears in Edinburgh.

There is an emoji oversight board.

Emma Bunton “wouldn’t know where to start” in trying to come up with a vaccine for Covid-19.

BMX has been breaking ground in Nigeria.

‘Eelam’ is the Tamil name for spurge, for toddy and also for gold.

Readers of books on nature are expected to be interested in poetry in a way that readers of literary biography are not necessarily expected to be interested in willow warbler migration.

Mussolini didn’t diet.

Even an Oxford man cannot summon knowledge out of the ether.
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