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• Post 5: Ignorance of Innocence, Evidence from the Desert

  

  Theories can be dismissed. Long-term data cannot. In 1974, a fire burned through the vegetation along Dead Man Wash in the Sonoran Desert uplands north of... Read more

  The 02 February 2026 by   Garry Rogers
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• Bones (1915), Lieutenant Bones (1918), Bones in London (1921) – by Edgar Wallace

  

  Book(s) review by George Simmers: A few years ago I read (and reviewed here) Edgar Wallace’s Sanders of the River (1911), a book of stories set in colonial... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Erica
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• Vinyl Junkies

  

  For Christmas in 2025 my sister-in-law bought me a mug with the legend “It’s Not Hoarding if it’s Vinyl” emblazoned across it. She knows me well. It now stands... Read more

  The 05 February 2026 by   Ashleylister
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• Fruit Tree

  

  When I moved into my previous house in Thornton Cleveleys it was the garden that sold me on the deal. It was an really ugly house, the kitchen was drab and... Read more

  The 05 February 2026 by   Ashleylister
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• Fruit Tree

  

  Arboriculture, or the cultivation of fruit trees goes back to the Neolithic period and was developed, perhaps, around 6,000 BCE within the Fertile Crescent in... Read more

  The 04 February 2026 by   Ashleylister
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• Fruit Tree - An Apple Tree on St Kilda

  

  It was one of those rare mornings where I didn’t need to be up early. A grandson had stayed with us recently, which meant early starts and walks to school in al... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Ashleylister
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• Vinyl(s)

  

  In the beginning was the vinyl. Well, not quite at the dawn of recorded music. Originally, from the 1880s onwards, there were perforated paper rolls for... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Ashleylister
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• My January Reading Wrap-Up

  In January we got hammered with snow, freezing rain and ice, so much that I got four days off of work and I’m still digging my car out. It was a great reading... Read more

  The 02 February 2026 by   Curlygeek04
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• Beolsae (House of Hummingbird)

  

  In Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird, teenager Eun-hee (Park Ji-huk, giving a stunning performance) goes unrecognised and isolated in most of the spheres she... Read more

  The 06 February 2026 by   Cathy Leaves
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• Review: Solito by Javier Zamora

  

  I first learned about this book when I was working with a grant to the state of Rhode Island to support a statewide read along of this book... Read more

  The 09 February 2026 by   Curlygeek04
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