Backtalk: A Medium Place
It's Schooner Festival week so I went into the archive for a nice photo of model boats from last year. I'm nearly finished a nonf...
It's Spring Astronomy Day and apparently the Moon and Mars will be at their closest point this year tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies. Also World Whiskey Day, though more importantly the first whisky from North Wales for over 120 years goes on sale this week. Also Penderyn are getting excited about their new distillery in Llandudno. There is another company getting in on the whisky act round here.
The Beeb's Natural History Unit has scored a first by running an entire episode of Winterwatch on renewable fuel. They ditched the normal diesel generators used for outdoor broadcasting for a hydrogen power unit, avoiding 3.3 tonnes of carbon emissions.
It is also Gingerbread Cookie Day, World Television Day, Red Mitten Day, Adoption Day, Pumpkin Pie Day, Guinness World Record Day, Alascattlo Day, False Confession Day, International Games Day and others.
You might need to indulge in some time travel to check these out.
Pretty sure that Frank Oz later reminded Parky that he had been making love to his left arm.#OnThisDay 1978: Miss Piggy was in town and her mind was very much set on Mr Parkinson. Poor Kermit! pic.twitter.com/57Auidvns7
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I can tell them that Tiddly has more than 13 ways to say feed me.
You could get philosophical about this.
The World of Pygmy Sea Horses.
Shiver me timbers, lover. It's Blackbeard.
There is a tv version of this, but I'm not sure it travels so well.
Barak Obama talks to David Olusoga.
Radio 4's Book At Bedtime will be serialising Obama's memoir in December and it will be available online after broadcast. It usually comes in 15 minute chunks.
Some years back, the buzz word was "imperial overstretch", broadly the idea that empires had a finite life expectancy, hence the end of the Roman, Ottoman and British empires, to name a few, and part of the forward projection was about America reaching that tipping point, if it could be averted, and so on. Wondering if that deserves a relook?
So what do recent years tell us about America?
In Scotland there is no sympathy for Margaret Ferrier, MP after her Covid flit to London and back.
#OnthisDay 1985: Glyn Worsnip caught up with the “pictorial poet” Norman Thelwell to chat about his career as a cartoonist. pic.twitter.com/8NAV0oKlPN
Just in case you were wondering ...
Last week I asked who was the swish chick knocking down a baddy henchman? No guesses, no answers given, no points awarded. It was, of course, tennis champ Jamie Sommers as played by Lindsay Wagner in the tv series The Bionic Woman. Jamie's dog was Maximillian the Bionic Dog, commonly known as Max. I don't think she had a cat.
