Monday 30 April 2012
by Wulf
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On Saturday night I was helping out at the Overflow youth event at our church. This month it was a chocolate party and, in one of the warm up games (chocolate smudge: put a square of chocolate on your forehead … Continue reading
Sunday 29 April 2012
by Wulf
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When goverments want to protect and expand their interests, whatever rhetoric it is dressed in, the normal tactic seems to be to “send in the tanks”. Jane and I attended a fascinating lecture at Mansfield College yesterday by NT Wright where … Continue reading
Saturday 28 April 2012
by Wulf
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Jane and I were up at 4am this morning in order to join a dawn chorus walk at the RSPB’s Otmoor reserve an hour later. Unfortunately the weather was not great — cold, grey, wet and windy — but we … Continue reading
Friday 27 April 2012
by Wulf
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A few years ago Jane and I joined one of those film clubs where you could sign up for and borrow an number of DVDs, receiving and returning them through the post. We did not last for long because if … Continue reading
Thursday 26 April 2012
by Wulf
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Magnus and I went ahead with our plans to try Small World via the Internet last night. We used Vassal and, just like the arc of countless stories went from initial fumblings into a promising run before encountering a problem that … Continue reading
Wednesday 25 April 2012
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A couple of weeks ago I watched an online video showing a group of people playing the boardgame Small World. It appealed to me, not least because it has a limited number of turns (so it will not drag on … Continue reading
Tuesday 24 April 2012
by Wulf
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Sci-fi confession: I was not entirely swept away by Olaf Stapledon’s classic work, Last and First Men, which seemed several billion years too long. However, I have a warmer response to Stephen Baxter’s Last and First Contacts, a collection of … Continue reading