For this prompt, I opened up Google Maps, typed in the letter A, and let auto-fill do its thing. Thus, here we are, with Amsterdam up for discussion. In many ways, Google has proven handy, because I’ve been to Amsterdam (albeit it was two decades ago now). It’s a vibrant city, a colourful and modern […]
Today’s prompt is brought to you by Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day… albeit their word of the day on the 7th of September, as opposed to today. That word is ‘grandiloquent’, and it means ‘speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous’. As with a lot of words in […]
Are you holding a grudge? About? This is interesting. Am I presently holding a grudge? I guess that depends. There are people who annoy me, albeit those people are also people I am putting behind me. There is no sense wasting that most precious of commodities – time – on the ignorant. I have (rather […]
Following on from my post on rivers, I figured that I should definitely do a post about lakes. Lakes are unique in that they can be quite small, or absolutely huge. At their biggest, they rival entire countries for sheer size. For example, the Great Lakes that straddle the US/Canadian border would occupy a territory […]
What does your ideal home look like? Hmm. Hmmmmmmm. My ideal home eh? Well, firstly, location location location! According to Forbes, the best city to live in is the Austrian city of Vienna, which has scooped this particular prize for two years in succession. Vienna scores highly for stability, infrastructure and culture, so parking my […]
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Rivers are the lifeblood of so many cities and civilisations. A great many of the largest cities on earth grew around rivers. For example, London sprouted up around the River Thames. The original Dutch settlers to found New Amsterdam (later New York) knew how important the Hudson River would be to their settlement’s long-term survival. […]
Welcome back one and all, to the Meerkat Muse, on this autumn morn. Record Highs September is often the month where temperatures in the UK begin to trail off. The days get shorter, the nights therefore get longer, and the weather begins to change. However, in the UK, temps of 30C or higher were recorded […]
SN 1987A is one of the most spectacular celestial events of the past forty years. Indeed, it is the closest supernova to earth since Kepler’s Supernova in 1604. It’s relative proximity and luminosity led SN 1987A to become one of the most intensively studied celestial objects. What makes SN 1987A (I can’t help but wonder […]
This greymuzzle is lamenting the ‘evolution’ of gaming, which has gone from an era where games were once released fully formed, to an age where to have the finished article, or to have any hope of achieving victory, you must pay. Can you imagine plugging in the cartridge for Super Mario Bros or Sonic the […]
Breached the 70K mark on my wip! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
This is just sheer absolute, exquisite beauty.
I have eaten too much pizza.
I don't think it's up to you to decide what's best for women, nor whether or not men can find them attractive...
You may be wondering where this post will go. Well, let’s place the scene in the restaurant above. What might I deem inappropriate behaviour in this setting? A restaurant has waiting staff, who (depending on the quality of the establishment) may or may not be paid a particularly decent wage, yet will work very hard. […]
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