Six (Brief) Things

Bookmark

Having a bit of a clear out, with a view to getting rid of some books (no, honestly), and I come across this bookmark. A little slice of history. I particularly like 'Green Gragon Lane'.

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Conker

This, the first conker, of the autumn, will sit in my pocket for a few weeks, lending comfort. It will gradually lose its mahogany sheen, but I’ll keep it anyway.

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Fall foliage prediction map

This one’s for Americans in particular, and leaf-peepers everywhere. How will fall progress this year? Like this, probably.

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Silver swan

The silver swan at the Bowes Museum, of which I wrote seven Six Thingses ago, is to be restored. Hurrah.

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River

The internet has become an extraordinarily rich and strange place in ways unimagined at its inception. Here is a website called ‘river’, a ’visual connection engine’. All you do is ‘clear your mind and surf laterally through image space’. Click on images and watch the landscape around it change. Odd, and curiously compelling.

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Goat challenge

Dave Huxtable, man of many accents, takes on the International Goat Challenge.

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And finally…

Some people celebrate obvious milestones – hundreds and thousands, for example. I prefer the satisfying symmetry of the repdigit. THANK YOU ALL. And to those of you whose instinctive reaction is to send this number on a downward trend, a) you are cruel people, and b) I honestly can’t blame you.

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