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Tag: fish

  • I'm a little fishsmith,
    Short and stout.
    Here's my anvil,
    Here's my trout.

    • Note
    • posted 21 August, 2026
  • A group of Baikal seals bask on a rock.

    Wikipedia @ 25: Lake Baikal

    Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (775 words)

    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • posted 19 May, 2026
  • On a verdant manicured lawn under a summer sky, two parents walk barefoot after their young child, who is running towards a traditionally-coloured yellow-and-white British ice cream van with visible branding reading 'fresh dairy ice cream' and '99 flake'.

    Delivery Songs

    In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of us in this regard, and I've got a few ideas about how we fix that...

    Read more - about 4 minutes (943 words)

    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 5 comments
    • posted 29 March, 2025
  • Did not attempt GC3KQKM RRR12 2nd tree downstream

    This checkin to GC3KQKM RRR12 2nd tree downstream reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Did not attempt to find, today: an angler was sitting almost right at the GZ, enjoying the peace and quiet that my geokid would have quickly disrupted! So we moved on...

    Read more (31 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC3KQKM
    • posted 9 March, 2025
  • Collage of three Hellenic plates decorated with fish. The fish all have strange-looking eyebrows!

    The Eyebrow Painter

    Take a guess what kind of pottery the unknown ancient Greek decorator of plates known as "the Eyebrow Painter" made.

    Read more (96 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 15 July, 2024
  • Review of Central Fish Restaurant

    This review of Central Fish Restaurant originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Central Fish Restaurant, 31 Chalybeate St, Aberystwyth SY23 1HX, United Kingdom. Rating: โญโญโญโญโญ Aberystwyth's best fish & chips. Well worth the walk from anywhere in the town.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (14 words)

    • Review
    • posted 25 October, 2017
  • Annabel looks out over the Eden Project

    Devon - the trip we'll never forget

    Dan, Ruth, JTA, and Annabel take a holiday in Devon. And for better or worse, it becomes a trip that they'll never forget.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1873 words)

    • Article
    • 6 comments
    • posted 16 June, 2014
  • Image representing post: Time

    Time

    Some people are goldfish, and some people are midgets. Dan's a goldfish. What are you?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (583 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 22 August, 2011

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