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Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, just three days left!): Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: ribald, amitotic, penthemimeral, spoffish, Zaporogian, nullifidian, and bamboozled. (Click?) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 435. I’m sorry I’m late, but I was having a problem … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, brain, composition, conversation, cool, dreaming, Dulltown, Grumpiness, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, instruction, learning, music, observations, overheard, people, poetry, politics, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, spam, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged advertising, arts, BBC, children, conversation, discovery, gravitas, history, Houses of Parliament, ironing board, late, madness, Meerschaum, music, name change, observations, old shag, overheard, pavement cyclist, poetry, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, transportation, tumble time, Velvet Undrerground, words, writing, your high horse
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No, no, this isn’t surrealism…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few days left to go!): Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like a porcupine – it does sharpen pencils really well, but is rather difficult to hold in the hand comfortably. … Continue reading
Posted in academia, animals, archeology, art, books, creation, design, drawing, history, humour, information, learning, reading, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism
Tagged 1930s style, 1936, art, arts, discovery, drawing, history, illustration, not surrealism, porcupine, RMS Queen Mary, serendipity, smoking funnels, style, surrealism, The London Coliseum, Trafalgar Square London, transportation, unusual pencil sharpener, Whitehall
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Excuse me, did you just say ‘gamboge’?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few days left!): Today’s anaconda is the one slithering around the hardware section of the supermarket looking for door knobs. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘I have a big fat red one at home.’ ‘Eh?…’ ‘A big … Continue reading
Posted in academia, animals, books, brain, conversation, cool, drama, food, humour, information, learning, phones, puzzle, reading, serendipity, surrealism, thinking, words
Tagged a galopin, a gammerstang, anaconda, arts, conversation, dictionaries, dictionary word, discovery, door knobs, galvanism, gamboge, ganglia, Garamond, hot buttered toast, looking words up, phones, serendipity, slithering, Stilton, surrealism, tomato juice, Wendsleydale, words, writing
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Some more of those spare Crush names…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, just a few days left!): Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel, King, Queen, Knave, which I re-read a couple of months ago. Dreyer started to dance with one of the pretty sisters, and … Continue reading
Posted in books, brain, celebrities, creation, Dulltown, Hull.UK., humour, information, mind, people, puzzle, reading, smiling, story, style, surrealism, thinking, words, writing
Tagged 1928, arts, celebrities, Crush names, free character names, history, infinite universe, King Queen Knave, madness, Monty Tick, New York, style, surrealism, tall tree surgeon, The Hull Surrealist League, Veronica Crush, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Some overheard and misheard snatches of cafe conversation…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only one week to go!): Today’s confused film star is Pidney Soitier. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Thaty, thaty, thaty!’ ‘Carundles, and one weep at a time.’ ‘An easy Jesus, yes!…’ ‘Let go, and then continue to bounce John.’ … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, brain, cafe, celebrities, conversation, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, expletives, Film, Hull.UK., humour, information, misheard, overheard, people, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, sex, surrealism, words
Tagged anomalies, arts, brexit, caramel, carundles, celebrities, continue to bounce, conversation, dictionary word, Easy Jesus, ernets, Europe?, expletives, madness, misheard, morsels, overheard, oxygen chocolate, poetry, religion, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, terrobate, the Gherkin, The Shard, words
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Oh, that’s your new lino print then Dave?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few days left!): Today’s interesting fish names are: the Yellowtail Amberjack, the Slipmouth, the Tubeshoulder, the Pineapplefish, the Opah, and the Handfish. If you were dining in a posh restaurant and wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, brain, composition, cool, creation, design, drawing, dreaming, fine art prints, food, humour, information, learning, lino cut printing, lino printing, observations, prints, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
Tagged 'L'-shapes for windows, art, arts, black and white, Christmassy, cutting lino, drawing, fish names, Japanese paper, Kizuki paper, lino cut printing, lino print, ordering fish, posh restaurant, religion, serendipity, style, surrealism, the Handfish, the Opah, the pineapplefish, the Slipmouth, the Tubeshoulder, the Yellowtail Amberjack, weather, words
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Some opening lines for stories never to be written…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few days to go!): Today’s fruit, having body image issues, and has started a course of exercises at the local gym, is the pomegranate. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Geoff Bummage was taking an evening walk with … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives
Tagged a familiar, an owl schrieked, art, arts, clock faces, Countess Nancy, cricket pavilion, grappling hook, Hamstead Heath, Kienholz, Kienholz Beanery, late, madness, never to be written, old steamer, palimpsest, Rosetta Stone, Russian agent, Shih Tzu, style, surrealism, Sydney Harbour Bridge, words, writing, yellowing paint
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