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natalia_il_1992

Побродили немножко по району Вардия.
Вардия — престижный и зелёный район Хайфы, большинство домов — частные виллы и коттеджи с большими участками.

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prettygoodword

enology (US) or oenology (UK) (ee-NOL-uh-jee) - n., the science and study of wine and winemaking.

As distinct from viticulture / viniculture, the science of cultivating and harvesting grapes, an essential precursor but a separate specialty. The latter terms were both coined in the 1870s from Latin roots, while (o)enology dates to around 1810 and is coined from Ancient Greek roots oînos, wine + -logĭ́ā, study of (from lógos, explanation).

---L.

heleninwales

I had completely forgotten about the Merched y Wawr meeting this afternoon. For some reason I hadn't put it in the diary, so the reminder email (which actually arrived yesterday but I hadn't opened and read it) caught my by surprise. I wasn't feeling too bright, not ill, but rather tired. We'd had a visitor to the Quaker meeting yesterday. She's writing a book about Cader Idris (our local mountain) and wanted to know more about the Quakers. Fortuitously I was showing the video I've just completed about the Quaker Trail, but what with the extra hassle of taking and setting up the laptop and speaker, getting the budget approved by the other members and chatting to a complete stranger, I felt completely peopled out this morning. I'd also put a large number of tasks on my To-Do list that I really wanted to get on with. I therefore emailed back with apologies.

So, today I have done a load of washing and hung it to dry, I've also written notes for the Epilogue for the WIP. I try not to write out of order these days, but my writer brain hasn't got the message and gives me random scenes which don't necessarily follow on from what I wrote last. But I'm leaving it at notes. I won't write it properly until I get to the end.

I also nipped out to take the weekly alphabet photo. I wanted to get a shot of the church clock as it was striking eleven and this was the only chance all week. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain and the other mornings I'll be elsewhere at 11 a.m.

5/52 for the group 2026 Weekly Alphabet Challenge

This week's theme was: E is for Eleven

As a backup, in case the shots of the clock weren't good enough, I also photographed some fruit.

My husband likes little clementine type citrus fruits. The Co-op call them all "easy peelers" but if you look at the label on the box, there are a number of different varieties. These are Nadorcotts, which are "a high quality, mid to late-maturing Clementine-type of mandarin". They were grown in Morocco.

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halfamoon

Title: Finding Yourself in a New World – Chapter 2: Guilty Pleasures
Day/Prompt: Day 2 / Guilty Pleasures
Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV)
Character/Pairing: Yasmine, Camila, Shannon, Mary, Lilith, Beatrice, Ava
Rating/Warning(s): T / None
Word Count: 6243
Summary: After her first mission, the team takes Yasmine to a bar and they all bond.
Author's Notes: As I said on the first day, this is a continuous story, one chapter covering each day's prompt. The link will go to the second chapter, the first chapter can be accessed from there.

Here on AO3

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halfamoon

Title: Two callings
Fandom: The Last Kingdom
Characters: Hild
Rating: T
Notes/Warnings: Done with Chinese ink pens and graphite. There's an implied dead body in the frame as a battle takes place in the background. This is also more or less in the same continuity of another

halfamoon entry of mine from 2025 :)
Summary: Hild's faith is steady but using sword skill, as brutal as its results might be, is a pull she cannot well deny...

Over here, at my journal!

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halfamoon

Title: Are You A Mirage? (I Hope So)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gotchard + Kamen Rider Girls Remix
Pairing/Characters: Lachesis/Nayuta, Rinne
Rating: E
Word count: 1107
Content Notes: Post-Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix, Post-Kamen Rider Gotchard: Graduations, Angst, Ambiguous NTR/Cheating, Contains References To The Gotchard Final Stage and The Upcoming Gotchard Novel, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Author's note: Also done for the

tokufemslash Femslash February Prompt Meme. Prompt was "Kamen Rider Gotchard: Lachesis/Mikazuki Nayuta + Kudo Rinne - Came back from the dead just to bang your girlfriend in front of you." As said in the notes: the NTR/cheating is ambiguous, so is the ending. It is entirely up to you if this was real, or if one of Glion's followers did this to hurt Rinne.
Summary: Rinne and Nayuta were supposed to have a happy reunion, it doesn't end up that way.
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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

rattfan

We've just had a power failure and everything went black. It's fantastic. Streetlights still on, unfortunately, but the houses around this block of apartments seem to be affected. Closest we'll get to a Black Sky event, Rob and Leece.

Am I weird that my first thought was wow, this sky right now would be great for astronomy. [EDIT. Though it is a full moon, so maybe not so much?]

It's to be expected after a 42^C degree day following a 27^C minimum night, I suppose.

I can hear my pet rats moving around, this being their free range time, but I can't see them, so the little horrors are going to go to bed exactly when they want to, I suspect!

Lucky I don't need to see my keyboard to type. I used to freak my boss out by transcribing with my eyes shut.

I just took a look out the front and it's definitely the surrounding block, not just us. A few folks will be getting their exercise, since of course this puts the lift out of operation. And a bunch of people are standing around in the car park, not sure what for. I've got my front door open, with flywire shut to prevent rat excursions,since it's getting a bit uncomfortable without the fan.

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halfamoon

Title: Vulcans Don't Feel Guilt (Usually)
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Character: T'Pol (Jonathan Archer & Charles "Trip" Tucker are also there)
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 351
Summary: The Captain was trying one of his getting-to-know you questions on her again

( Vulcans Don't Feel Guilt (Usually) )

bergberg

...В снега и в морозы,
И путь мой далёк
А.Блок

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halfamoon

Today's theme is Guilty Pleasures.

Here are some ideas to get you started: A bag of greasy potato chips, a racy romance novel, a nap in the middle of a workday, or a clandestine affair with a co-worker- some of the things our favorite characters enjoy the most can be viewed as less than healthy or otherwise looked down on by society. Show us a guilty pleasure for one of your favorite characters.

Just go wherever the Muse takes you. If this prompt doesn't speak to you, feel free to share something that does. You can post in a separate entry or as a comment to this post.

Want to get a jump start on tomorrow's theme? Check out the prompt list in the pinned post at the top of the page. Please don't post until that day.

stonepicnicking_okapi

I wrote a ficlet yesterday about Holmes' first love, his violin. Here is some instrumental background music in the same theme.

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1word1day

counterpane [koun-ter-peyn]

noun

a quilt or coverlet for a bed; bedspread

examples
1. The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

2. A thin counterpane of blue check gave a rather pleasing finish. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

origins
1425–75; counter- + pane (in obsolete sense bedspread); replacing late Middle English counterpoynte < Middle French contre-pointe quilt, alteration (by association with contre- counter- ) of cou ( s ) tepointe, coitepointe < Latin culcita puncta pricked pillow.

counterpane

andrewducker

1. Vitamin D cuts heart attack risk by 52%. Why?: (tags:vitaminD heart )
2. Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset: (tags:politics USA )
3. Evidence beats ideology: What Hampstead Ponds tells us about trans inclusion: (tags:LGBT transgender UK )
4. Who Goes Nazi? (A newspaper article from 1941): (tags:nazis history viaKenny )
5. Why was the Puppet Masters movie so bad?: (tags:movies heinlein scripts writing )
6. I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026: (tags:dilbert history politics obituary )
7. Following the link about a "running a bookshop" holiday, I was recommended the game "Tiny Bookshop": (tags:games books shops )
8. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words! |: (tags:words game doom )
9. Did people drink water in the Middle Ages?: One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water.
(tags:water history )
10. Inside the Salford secondary school where every pupil gets a job when they leave (because they're properly supported): (tags:school children )

shad_tkhom

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Ну так совпало - День рождения деревьев и День сурка. У нас солнечный день, а где то люди ждут, когда наконец закончится зима. Ненавистное для меня лично время года - особенно сейчас и здесь, когда дома и на улице температура примерно одинаковая - +18. Бывает на градус ниже, бывает выше.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: רחובות
Current Music: минорно...

bergberg

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Fandoms: Bad Behaviour, Heated Rivalry, Legend of the Seeker, Maxton Hall, Nancy Drew, One Trillion Dollars, Saved by the Bell, Shadow & Bone, Stranger Things, The Expanse, The Wheel of Time, Twinkling Watermelon, Warrior Nun, We Were Liars, What It Feels Like for a Girl, Y Golau

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mundodefieras

ysabetwordsmith

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Review: "Maple Syrup: 40 Tried & True Recipes"
Birdfeeding
Valentines Bingo Card 2-1-26
Today's Adventures
Books
Bingo
Art
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Intelligence
Recipe: "Thumbprint Cookies with Cornstarch"
New Year's Resolutions Check In
Birdfeeding
Gaming
Poetry Fishbowl Report for January 6, 2026
Follow Friday 1-30-26: Literature
Birdfeeding
Community Thursdays
Alien Romance
Website Updates
Early Humans
Birdfeeding
Hard Things

Safety has 25 comments. Food has 40 comments. Wildlife has 26 comments. Animal Communication has 49 comments. Food has 64 comments. Robotics has 134 comments.

There will be a Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, February 3 with a theme of "Books and Literacy." I hope to see you then!

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tcpip

Walter Benjamin, with his usual brilliance, observed, "Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it." The first part suggests that a scholar never ceases learning and, as a result, does not settle into a single profession. The second part indicates the difference between a student (who does need to a profession) and a scholar (for whom learning is a lifetime, evolving, and intrinsic behaviour. Well, after over a month of international travel and then followed by a few excellent celebratory gatherings, it is well about time that I return to the matter of scholarship. In these parts of my life, there are three current vectors.

The first is my doctoral studies at the University of Euclid. This week I have have completed the first part of a course on "Global Energy and Climate Policy", which is shared between the University of London and with the major project with Euclid University. The content was quite good, looking at the necessity of moving away from GHG energy sources, alternative energy sources (including nuclear), the Paris Agreement itself, and energy security and sovereignty. For the major paper, I'll be looking at "Optimal Energy Choices for Pacific Island Nations Under the Paris Agreement". I am especially interested in looking at the expected climate changes, the likely demographic changes, technology options, and the application of NDCs of other countries.

In addition, in a completely different vector, I have taken up studies for a Cert IV in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Now, this may seem a bit strange for someone who already has a Master's degree in Higher Education, but in my profession, my teaching is normally more than 50% of students from non-English-speaking backgrounds. It is extremely helpful for me to modify my presentation so it is more easily understood, even when the technical content is quite advanced. The course itself, through the Sydney Higher Education Institute, is thankfully very attentive to not just language learning, but also cultural differences. Whilst the course is designed to be taken over a year, because it's self-paced I'm hoping to get it done in a few months.

The third part is quite out of leftfield. About fifteen years ago, I ran a lengthy RuneQuest Prax campaign. As I often do, I kept extensive notes and even constructed a series of letters from one of the characters, Praxilites, as he developed from a young initiate of the sun god to reaching apotheosis. How is such fantasy storytelling scholarly? Well, apart from delving deeply into what can only be described as the deeply mythological metaphysics of Glorantha, our main character's story is very much in the style of Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations", a subject that I have written about in the past. Of course, it will not be just Marcus whom I'll be drawing from, but also Diogenes, Zeno, Seneca, Epictetus and even a dash of Laozi. Anyway, with more than 35000 words already written, it is proving to be quite a joy to delve down a path of scholarship that is also entertaining.

Current Location: The Rookery
Current Music: Yello, The Video Hits Collection

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caseficexchange

You guys did the unthinkable… We have no unmatchables!

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What's coming up next:

Initial pinch hits will be posted in 24-48 hours.

A beta post.

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Monday update

Day 2 - Fic - Warrior Nun - Yasmine

Day 2: fanart, The Last Kingdom - Hild

Day 2: Fic - Kamen Rider Gotchard + Kamen Rider Girls Remix - Lachesis/Nayuta + Rinne

Just one thing: 2 February 2026

Darkness!

Day 2 - Vulcans Don't Feel Guilt (Usually) - Star Trek: Enterprise - T'Pol

Старинные розы Несу, одинок...

Day 2 Theme - Guilty Pleasures

Music Monday: Sherlock Holmes ambient music

Monday Word: Counterpane

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2-Е /// Ту Би Шват и другие.

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A Return to Scholarship

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