Comes the weekend…
Uncle B had an appointment in a little village the next county over today. A little village with a lovely big church (clearly a place of importance once). Built in the 12th Century and substantially enlarged in the 15th, I think it said. I might be off by a century or so.
By tradition, English churches are always open and I had this one all to myself until someone came in to clean. Perhaps I’ll post some pictures of the inside, if my phone camera didn’t let me down.
Have a good weekend, everyone — I certainly plan to, long weekend and all.
May 3, 2019 — 9:46 pm
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Just like one of my girls
This here’s a Caudipterix. It’s a peacock-sized dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. It could run real good, but it couldn’t fly. Don’t it just look like a chicken?
They’re using a robot recreation of this bird to help answer the central mystery of early flight: did they glide or did they flap? Because apparently he flapped. He didn’t fly, but he (probably) involuntarily flapped as he ran which they think might have eventually led to bursts of flight.
I bet that scared the hell out of the first Caudipterix to achieve liftoff. Article about it here.
Day Two of Weasel’s Birthmonth, and my last working day for a few. It’s a long weekend here, so I took Friday and Tuesday to make myself a very long weekend. I’ll be around, but probably stupid hungover.
May 2, 2019 — 7:59 pm
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Huh.
I don’t know why this is from the New York Times, but it’s an interesting dialect map of the UK.
Uncle B sent it to me and said it’s accurate, so I assume it nailed him.
I was surprised when I took it that most of them had answers I would consider correct, but my score was, “you’re not from around here, are you?”
No, I’m not. But I spent half my life in Tennessee and half my life in Rhode Island before coming here, so my dialect is…impure.
Day 1 of Weasel Birthmonth I had the first strawberries of the season.
May 1, 2019 — 8:10 pm
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