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July 4, 2008 by graham

All that remains

Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 185 The ruins of St Benet’s Abbey on the banks of the River Bure. This is an amazing set of ruins. Not only are parts of the abbey still there, but there’s also the remains of a wind pump that was built [...]

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April 11, 2008 by graham

Winnie

Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 101 A commemorative crown, minted in 1965 to mark Churchill’s death, given to me by my Grandmother. It’s actually a fairly plain nickel job rather than some of the silver-heavy ones that my Dad has collected over the years, but under the [...]

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April 10, 2008 by graham

Top commands

I don't do memes as a rule, but this one's been doing the rounds on Planet Ubuntu, so I thought I'd give it a shot, too. So, the results of the query are: graham@bloodnok: ~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " "}}'|sort -rn|head93 bzr66 python2.446 sudo44 cd39 grep22 make19 ls18 vim11 tail11 lpvim [...]

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March 11, 2008 by graham

Where the fairies live?

Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 70 This is one of the "Fairy Caves," the old, abandoned coke ovens of Aspen Colliery in Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up. They’re full of graffiti, rubbish and needles now, but when I was a kid they held a mystique that never [...]

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February 1, 2008 by graham

In Defence of the Realm

Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 31 The entrance to the WWII pillbox at Castle Stede, near Loyne bridge, Hornby, Lancashire. It was built in the 1940s as a defence against a possible German invasion. There’s a Norman castle – well, its earthworks anyway – just behind where [...]