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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- March 2024 75 -- Word Writing Challenge

    Congratulations @Victoria Silverwolf!
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    When Will Robo Cop Make An Appearance

    To operate in the same environment that a human has to - fit through doors, avoid obstacles etc, maybe use the same tools.
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    "Best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain" at Must Farm quarry

    Peterborough Museum is hosting a Must Farm exhibition from 27th April to 28th September this year. https://peterboroughmuseum.org.uk/events/exhibition-introducing-must-farm-a-bronze-age-settlement I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised that the British Museum hasn't hijacked it.
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    Malvern Hills -- Tolkien angle -- Country Life magazine 20 March 2024

    A lovely place. I did many, many walks there training for my Kilimanjaro trek.
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    MARCH 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge --VICTORY TO VICTORIA SILVERWOLF!

    Nature’s Promise Winter eyed the crocus with some disdain. “A little early I think. I am not yet done.” “But it is a sign. Your power wains, your iron grip loosens,” said Spring. “Really? Feel that wind! That icy blast!” “And yet that delicate flower mocks you and persists regardless. A...
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    Discussion Thread - 300-word Writing Challenge #52 (January 2024)

    Congratulations @Christine Wheelwright!
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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- February 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

    Too quick. Apologies. Please don't let this derail the thread.
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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- February 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

    Apologies, I probably won't be able to vote in the 75 this month. I fly out to Tanzania on Monday with my son for our attempt to climb Kilimanjaro. Back on March 5th. There's a vague possibility that I may get a signal on my mobile, in which case I'll try my best.
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    FEBRUARY 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO THE JUDGE!

    Patience is a Virtue. They’d watched each other, without hope, for almost a century. He, a simple farm worker, plainly framed on the north wall. She, a courtesan, framed in gilt on the south. But sometimes events conspire. Through the atrium they see a shooting star, ending a million year...
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    V for Vendetta.
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    Ian Lavender

    When he appeared on Celebrity Mastermind and was asked his name by John Humphreys as he sat in 'the chair', Rick Wakeman, who was also a contestant, shouted out "Don't tell him, Pike."
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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- February 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

    Don't think for a second that you get away with it by just wishing us 'good luck'. My memory is poor but I'm not going to forget this for a long time, @Christine Wheelwright & @Jo Zebedee.
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    Discussion Thread - 300-word Writing Challenge #52 (January 2024)

    I'm in. Late for me, but better late than never.
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    300 Word Writing Challenge -- #52 (January 2024) -- VICTORY TO CHRISTINE WHEELWRIGHT!

    Of Mice and Men Granger started log ‘20960403 Enhanced Serum Trial’ noting Lab Subject 216 at the starting gate of the blue maze and Lab Subject 114 in a sound and light-proof enclosure five centimetres away. You are close. Yes. Two ‘strange others’ also. Yes. Confusing. “What are we...
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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- January 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

    A brief word about my entry. The 'Blue Planet' was meant to refer to an early, pristine Earth and the microbe start of life here. By inference the spaceman was, of course, a visiting alien. I've used 'Blue Planet' in entries before to avoid explicitly mentioning Earth by name. I can't think...
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    DISCUSSION THREAD -- January 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

    Congratulations @Christine Wheelwright !
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    JANUARY 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO CHRISTINE WHEELWRIGHT!!

    Origins He stepped down from his craft’s decontamination chamber onto a pristine beach. Crouching to collect a rock sample, a hairline crack in the sole of his left boot opened slightly to release a single microbe into the sand. Sometime later, as he left, mission accomplished, a wave from...
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    Old Tech thread

    I seem to remember that that tape reader had speed of 600cps. Impressive, considering that in 1966 a machine I worked on had a paper tape reader with the same speed and that the speed was considered at the top of the range for reading tape without damaging it.
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    Old Tech thread

    Still got mine. Pioneer - still in full working order. Mostly bought in the 70s
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