Notices by Nile (hairyears@wandering.shop)

@goatsarah

He sets his books in parts of Leicestershire and Rutland where, as an uneasy adolescent, I cycled for pleasure and peaceful hours.

Some of his stories are set there directly: some of them borrow the place names; and some of them have sly little hints that put me back in a particular lane or copse or village, with the realisation "Oh, it's *there*" which makes me smile, remembering.

@cstross Ordered!

@cstross

If only the Sex Pistols had done a cover…

@cstross What if someone writes another 'Houseplants of Gor'?

…In the Elongated Kingdom of Mars?

@goatsarah

Yup. That's why I traded-up my phone's trusty clip-on lens for a Lumix MFT camera with a Dreamcaster x2 macro lens.

For my deeply geeky hobby of photographing wild bees.

@mjg59

Some days, it seems that they have as many differing and fascinating ways of screwing-up CSV as there are open sessions of Microsoft Excel...

Then I remember that Microsoft have other applications, too.

Being prepared to work with this, and becoming a ridiculous sort of expert in it, has become a lucrative source of income.

@mjg59

Don't get me started on Microsoft's misimplementation of CSV files.

@cstross

It could be her conscience and her moral compass, telling her "This is evil and I must repudiate it!"

Equally, it could be that Theresa May's moral compass swings between "This make me popular in the Daily Mail!" or (occasionally and late) "Might I suffer consequences?"

Perhaps there are noises from The Hague, or of a Sanctions list, in consequence of actions that will never be tried as crimes in Brexitstan.

@goatsarah

Jeeezus Crust, that's dreadful.