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Today I visited a place that had been on my “Must Go There” list for many years – the Pitt Rivers Museum of Anthropology and World Archaeology in Oxford.
The museum is accessed via the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, on Parks Road, Oxford. Walk through the Natural History Museum, gazing at some wonderful exhibits [...]
Reporter : There are extraordinary scenes going on around me here at Base Camp of the expedition by Squonky to make a solo attempt on the North Face of “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, a novel which Squonky maintains is Hardy’s most soporific ediface.
I have the intrepid Squonky himself here with me right now, fresh from [...]
I’ve long held an appreciation of the music of Led Zeppelin. Their albums tended to alternate with those of Genesis on my record player as a teenager. My dad must have cursed as the whole house shook to the sound of “Los Endos” and “Squonk” followed by “Kashmir” and “Whole Lotta Love”.
Of course, one of [...]
Back in the autumn of 1986 I started a degree course in Computer Science at what was then Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry (now Coventry University). It didn’t go well. I ended up dropping out of the course by the end of the year and I think a lot of the reason for that was the [...]
A couple of years or so ago, in the lifetime of the original SquonkyBlog, I got into a routine of walking in and out of work. It was a distance of 4.5 miles each way, so 9 miles a day. Over the period of time I managed to keep doing it for, I managed to [...]
One weekend back in 1996 I sat down and decided I was going to teach myself HTML. Little did I know what I was starting. It just happened by pure coincidence to be the weekend that my ISP, Demon Internet launched their free web hosting service. I decided that I might as well throw something [...]
For various Real Life reasons it has been absolutely ages since I posted anything to my blog – about 10 months! It’s not that I’ve not been doing anything, probably quite the reverse, I’ve been so busy and stressed that I’ve not had the time to think about blogging.
I intend to change this.
For this post [...]
Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It has been a bit longer than planned since my last update on Grow Jesus. Jesus has undergone a bit of a growth spurt since then.
On Sunday evening (5th October) he had reached 42 mm high. This evening he is up to 74 mm. Obviously your prayers have [...]
We are now 9 hours into the Grow Jesus marathon. Despite the packaging telling me he should be fully grown after 72 hours, a little research on the web has found others with a Grow Jesus saying it’s 10 days. Only time will tell.
So, after 9 hours do we have miraculous Jesus growth? He’s up [...]
I have recently received a most thoughtful and, with my own degree of religious devotion in mind, appropriate present. “Grow Jesus”, just pop him into a glass of water and watch him grow by up to 600% in 72 hours.
This just has to be blogged!
Carefully removing Our Lord from his blister pack I popped him [...]
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