The judging table for the BBQ competition at the ‘Flavours of Yorkshire 2026’. The breakfast BBQ entries were pretty good!
BBQ Judging Table
Sky Swan
Sky swan.
GoldenEye 007 Live / Cor64 (2026)
This is fun! Here’s a recording of a live performance of the soundtrack to 1997’s GoldenEye 007.
Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television
Over at CuriousBritishTelly there’s a nice short article of the history of children’s lunchtime TV – Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television.
A Brief Introduction to the Buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage
The Historic England Blog has a nice introduction to some of the buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage. It’s interesting and well worth a read.
Anubis
Here’s an interesting article on the probable pointlessness of Anubis and other hash-based captcha replacements.
Inside the UK’s Amateur Robot Wars Scene
A interesting look at the UK’s amateur Robot Wars scene.
Do I already have too many interests? Yes.
Do I wish I could carve out some time for this? Also yes.
Whitby / Gyrth Russell (1950)
An old British Railways-Whitby poster from 1950. Pinched from the Science Museum’s rather extensive collection.
I should really do a Railway-Poster-of-the-Day thing in a similar vein to ‘Retro Computer Adverts‘.
Suddenly We Looked Like Giants / Patrick Jonsson (2018)
Patrick Jonsson’s Suddenly We Looked Like Giants from 2018.
The Bronze Age of Globalization
This is an interesting article on the Bronze Age trade in tin and copper in the Mediterranean, it’s subsequent collapse, and how the iron replaced copper, leading to the iron age.