Pendulum
About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(Australian_band)
Official website:
Three Track Play list #1
Reply
山海关 – The Shanhai Pass
Nestled between the Yan mountain and the coast near Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province.
北京语言大学 Beijing Language & Culture University
Beijing Language & Culture University campus, April 2021
Beijing Language and Culture University is one of the oldest Universities to offer instruction in English. Nowadays it caters to many foreign students wishing to learn Mandarin.
James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)
“I am Dionysus, the child of Zeus, and I have come to this land of the Thebans, where Cadmus’ daughter Semele once bore me, delivered by a lightning-blast. Having assumed a mortal form in place of my divine one,”
The Bacchae by Euripides
“Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory – all these have served, in H. G. Wells’s phrase, as Doors in the Wall.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
平原县, 德州市, 山东省
Image
A bit different from but similar to Banbury Cross
Ride a cock horse
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have music wherever she goes.
The origins of this rhyme are uncertain.
Banbury used to have several crosses: the High Cross, the Bread Cross and the White Cross until they offended puritan sensibilities and were destroyed around 1600.
The present cross dates from 1859 to commemorate the wedding of Victoria, the Princess Royal , to Frederick of Prussia whose coat of arms were blocked out during World War 1.
So removing and defacing statues by those gifted with moral certainty is nothing new.
人, 丛, 众
Widely seen Chinese Covid poster:
人 rén – person
丛 cóng – a collection or group
众 – zhòng – a multitude or crowd
Chinese covid poster 2020/21 Beijing
There is a tradition of health posters as we can see:
Iggy Pop – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night
洪家楼耶稣圣心主教座堂,济南市
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Cathedral_(Jinan)
Il faut cultiver notre jardin – Voltaire
A bird in the hand #2
Once in a lifetime
Once in a lifetime by the Talking Heads re-imagined
and you might ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here…?”
and by Talking Heads I don’t mean Alan Bennett
bicycle on a hillside desolate
North of the (Great) wall…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival
Great things happen when men and mountains meet
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand
Whether Hendrix did actually visit Annapurna is moot , but it’s a nice story.
Fáilte, Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!
Featured
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
Fremde, étranger, stranger.
Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchanté,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.
Updates progress: still working on fixing things
Tag Cloud:
archive astrology bangkok BBC TV beer blog updated books captal punishment China comedy Co Roscommon Cows documentary Dr Who EdwtheLongshanks Eire Food and Drink Halifax home-movie india ireland Leeds London Underground Mac music Oxfordshire philip larkin poetry pubs railways rural science Stumbleupon StumbleUpon user sunset syd barrett Taiwan travel travel pic travel pics TV uk updated 2024 wildlife Yorkshire
A bird in the hand…
Find Starlink
I’ve got a bike….*
The Madcap laughed…
Cow-a-bunga #2
Raising beef cattle is very common hereabouts
This town…. #2
Samuel Beckett Motivational Cat Posters
The place on the Venn diagram where “I can has Cheeseburger’ intersects the works of Samuel Beckett.
Cuculus canorus
‘Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!”
Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov, Arkhivov / CC BY-SA
The Cuckoo comes in April
She sings her song in May
In the middle of June
She changes her tune
In July she flies away.
This town, is coming like a ghost town
‘All the shops have been closed down’
“Bands don’t play no more, too much virus on the dance floor.’
‘You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.’ #2
Planted:
Castanea sativa (Sweet chestnut)
Apple trees:
Soft Fruit:
Constructed:
- Windbreak netting
- Composting bin
Numbeo
Numbeo is a collaborative online database which enables users to share and compare information about the cost of living between countries and cities.
It also includes data on:
- property prices,
- crime,
- health care,
- pollution,
- traffic,
- travel,
- quality of life
Turf cutting in Co Roscommon in 1881
Turf cutting in Co Roscommon in 1881, from the Illustrated London News, February 26th, 1881
Cut turf stacked for drying, Lissananny, Co. Roscommon, August 2019
To sit beside the board and drink good wine
And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire
And feel content and wisdom in your heart,
This is the best of life;
William Butler Yates
Cutting turf to heat homes has been a tradition for millennia, but the EU has ruled that it must stop.
“I still believe that in this world, we’ve got to find the time… for the life of Riley.”
‘The life of Riley’ is an easy and pleasant life.
Low Tech Magazine
What is Low-tech Magazine?
Founded in November 2007, Low-tech Magazine questions the blind belief in technological progress, and talks about the potential of past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society. Interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.
My personal favourite articles:
Research shows that it’s possible to grow warmth-loving crops all year round with solar energy alone, even if it’s freezing outside. The solar greenhouse is especially successful in China, where many thousands of these structures have been built during the last decades.
How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow
For being such a seemingly ordinary vehicle, the wheelbarrow has a surprisingly exciting history.
Timperley early
Make a raised bed
Prepare the soil
Rhubarb prefers a sunny site and should not be harvested in the first year. Three crowns should be enough to feed a family. Once mature the crowns can be split to provide new healthy plants.
‘Timperley Early’ is one of the earliest varieties to mature, producing pink-red stems streaked with green. It’s ideal for forcing to provide tender pink stems as early as February. If left to grow naturally, ‘Temperley Early’ is ready to harvest from March.
Riparian ownership: Responsibilities of a riparian owner
What are my responsibilities as a riparian owner?
- To pass on water flow without obstruction, pollution or diversion that would affect the rights of others.
- To maintain the banks and bed of the watercourse (including any trees and shrubs growing on the banks) and any flood defences that exist on it.
- To maintain any approved structures on their stretch of the watercourse and keep them free of debris. These may include trash screens, culverts, weirs and mill gates.
- Riparian Owners must not build new structures (for example a culvert, bridge or board walk) that encroach upon the watercourse, or alter the flow of water or prevent the free passage of fish
How do I maintain the watercourse?
a) Keep growth of vegetation (trees, weeds, reeds, grass etc) under control
b) Keep watercourses free of debris (e.g. litter, grass cuttings, and fallen trees and branches)
c) Remove excess silt
Here are some good URLs:
http://www.theriverstrust.org/media/2017/04/Pinpoint-21.0-Soil-Management-Managing-ditches.pdf
Futility Closet – a collection of entertaining curiosities
About Futility Closet
Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.
The database contains more than 10,000 items, and more are added each day.
You can read Futility Closet on the web, subscribe by RSS, or sign up to receive a daily email.
CATEGORIES:
Art
Crime
Death
Entertainment
History
Hoaxes
Humor
Language
Literature
Oddities
Podcast
Poems
Puzzles
Quotations
Religion
Science & Math
Society
Technology
Trivia
King's Road?
It’s Brexit Day
To commemorate this day the primary domain of this blog has been changed from: nolligan.co.uk to nolligan.ie
Incidentally, you can also use nolligan.com and nolligan.uk
春节快乐
Cow-a-bunga
Xilin Gol, Nei Menggu
Existential Comics
Atrium
/ˈeɪtrɪəm/
noun
ARCHITECTURE
an open-roofed entrance hall or central court