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Salisbury and Stonehenge: touch and see4 comments

eyoki wrote 2 days ago: I spent the weekend visiting Salisbury with a friend. The trip wasn’t supposed to be quite so Salisb … more →

Tags: Art, See, Touch, photograph, Salisbury, stonehenge, Stone, Cathedral, Art Museum

An injection of warmth

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: I had to go for my injection today. Every twelve weeks the same routine. Down to my local health cen … more →

Tags: happiness, trans, FtM, Africa, injection, health, warm, twelve, Accent

A remarkable panorama

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday i visited the British Library to see an exhibition of 19th Century photography. From my no … more →

Tags: Questions, Photography, Art, Victorian, Panorama, photograph, Mirror, Double, Certainty

Alpha Centauri, here i come!

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: What is it about space travel that is so alluring? Even a ‘short’ journey in space takes a long, lon … more →

Tags: happiness, Questions, World, Air, Alpha Centauri, distance, Earth, hiraeth, human

My perfect museum: 'A living house'

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: This morning on the way to work i found myself thinking about museums: why they are always unsatisfa … more →

Tags: film, WW2, War, butter, house, 40s, Garden, window, soundproof

Self-strangulation: it's the in thing, don't you know

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: Alas, i have more proof of my cackhandedness. On the train today I went to take off my rucksack as I … more →

Tags: cackhanded, earphone, Fun, Hobby, Self, strangle, WIRE

The waters close over you1 comment

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: I have been poorly. Not stricken with the plague, not even afflicted with swine flu, but nonetheless … more →

Tags: water, poorly, absent, week, Return, cat, Virus, Work, Cough

That song about a youth hostel

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: Ah, the wonders of shuffle mode on an iPod. Today, for instance, the song “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village … more →

Tags: Memories, Ordeals, Childhood, School, Christmas, sex, Dance, Youth Hostel, Shuffle

Aethelred the Misled & Misleading

eyoki wrote 1 week ago: On this day in 1002 the English king Aethelred the Unready decreed that all Danish colonists in Engl … more →

Tags: language, anglo-saxon, Crime Fiction, Dane, death, English, epithet, History, Scandinavia

Another freedom

eyoki wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s really only been two months since i started to blog and for most of that time i feel i’ve been … more →

Tags: Blue, Freedom, Journal, Son, Edit, Birth

Space is a dangerous place2 comments

eyoki wrote 2 weeks ago: Just an aside, but after writing the last post, something else occurred to me about Sci-Fi. This tim … more →

Tags: films, death, spaceship, Space, cold, Air, Radiation

The iPhone: freedom, frustration & fun

eyoki wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve had my iPhone* for about 6 months now. Long enough to get a sense of what I do and don … more →

Tags: Ordeals, Tech, colour, iPhone, Game, app, touchscreen, GPS, type

If the aliens ever find my socks

eyoki wrote 3 weeks ago: What is it with socks? No matter how many pairs I buy I can never find two that belong together. Eac … more →

Tags: Questions, sock, Alien, archaeology, leg, repeat

Elizabethan textspeak5 comments

eyoki wrote 3 weeks ago: I was sitting at home today, watching the rain and the wind, when out of the blue i suddenly started … more →

Tags: Questions, language, English, elizabethan, textspeak, Bing!

Cackhanded but not alone8 comments

eyoki wrote 1 month ago: Like most people, there are many things i wish i could change about myself. I would like to be pract … more →

Tags: happiness, Books, Coffee, cackhanded, Alone

Spoof Lisbon Posters

kealanflynn wrote 2 months ago: Some classic spoof Lisbon posters on the go … … more →

Dublin-Kerry result shakes the Berlin Bunker

kealanflynn wrote 3 months ago: … more →

Tags: Berlin bunker, Dublin, GAA, kerry

Quick Bits

Stuart wrote 4 months ago: No, I didn’t win either of the $50 million the other day, so Stu’s Shed is still here, a … more →

Tags: Blog

The Road Not Taken

motherfrockingsockchucker wrote 5 months ago: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I s … more →


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