Weekend 665.1
(1) Entrance Building (Flickr) Continental’s Big City HO kits were a short line of vintage injection-molded plastic structure kits for model railroads (HO scale, 1:87), produced in the late 1950s Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Weekend
Weekend 665.0 (Shark-Bodied, Triple-Tailed Ship)
“And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images brought into it from things of all sorts perceived by the Continue Reading →
Weekend 664.0 (Football Edition)
(1) Survival to spotlight: How MLS built a more than 30-year run to 2026 World Cup with risks, a plan and hope (CBS Sports) (2) I Visited Britain’s Most Miserable Continue Reading →
Weekend 663.1 (…falling down a spiral, destination unknown)
I’ve been using ChatGPT this weekend to revisit Playmobil365. There’s a beautiful book on my desk called Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine and AI is giving me Continue Reading →
Weekend 663.0
(1) Art Is the Signature of Man (The Imaginative Conservative)
Weekend 662.0 (A quiet sense that time is running out)
This was inspired by a photo my friend took on her winter walk. It reminds me of the introduction of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.
Weekend 661.0
We’re kicking off the weekend with some social media content. It fits a theme because, “everything is not only a thing, but a sign, full of significance.”¹ ¹C.S. Lewis for Continue Reading →
Weekend 659.0 (…limestone landscapes sounded echoes in me.)
It’s a cold Saturday and Merry Old England seems like a vanished memory. (1) A quote from The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey: I’ve always relished the power of plants Continue Reading →
Weekend 658.0 (The Limestone Route)
“The barren wilderness has become a great city and the desolate places have been to blossom as the rose.” — Cambridge General Advertiser, July 30, 1845 “Railway termini are our Continue Reading →
2025 Christmas Sabbatical
“The urn that covereth me shall bring forth a god.” — Fulvius “Whether his light reveals an easy path or a steep climb, whether the pilgrimage involves energetic activity or Continue Reading →