Formerly: schoolteacher, academic editor, helpdesk operator, database designer, project manager, crate-catcher and tree-surgeon's assistant.
Interests: #ClassicalMusic, #StringQuartets, #Physics, #Biology, #Fiction, #Trees and #Ideas.
All photos (if not credited separately): @wibble, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Interests: #trees, #birds, #ideas and sometimes #TheArchers
| Mostly in | London UK |
| Also Procrastinating At | https://www.simonwilks.co.uk |
@Gaolaitch I thought it might be an LLM that's eaten too many recipes.
The BBC amassed a fair collection of those, in the days when food made for cheap entertainment, so it's possible their little army of silicon interns had them added to their rations, if only by mistake.
But the same error appears in BBC news items as far back as 2002, so it'll be in their spellchecking corpus anyhow - the subtle legacy, perhaps, of journalists' expense accounts being more used in restaurants than libraries.
Horniman twinned with Khanenko Museum in Kyiv
The Horniman has signed an agreement to twin with the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, in an arrangement which will see the cultural exchange of knowledge and support between the two organisations.https://foresthill.org.uk/horniman-twinned-with-khanenko-museum-in-kyiv/
@unexposedhazard @okwithmydecay I think it's rather sweet of them.
When compared with any other retirement housing, the promise of five years' worth of accommodation, food and heating, all for the price of a slice of stale bread, looks generous to the point of charity. In the past, you had to rob a bank to get that, but now all the branches have closed I think it's good that councils are providing alternative routes.
#TodaysWalk was to Honor Oak, Crofton Park, Deptford, Greenwich, Walworth and Camberwell, mostly because I was bored.
It was a nice day, and the catkins were out on the beeches of Brenchley gardens, but, as every silver lining has its cloud, I was much perturbed to witness the egregious abuse of an active-travel facility.
#TodaysWalk was just a grocery run but, feeling weirdly footloose following a forecast that forgot to mention fog, I chose to fetch them from Streatham.
Streatham Common offers, according to a signboard, "spectacular views across South London and to the North Downs", though I can't say that I'd ever noticed before and today was no exception. I did, however, find some admirably tenacious Christmas trees and an arguably interesting bollard.
Forest Hill
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