TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

 Excerpts from a reading in the July 2025 issue of Harper's Magazine : "On multiple occasions, the chief has exited the bathroom in...

...when we came home from Town.  It was cooked on the Friday in the copper in the wash-house.  It gave a scream when it was dropped in the h...

Deep-fried ranch dressing .  Ranch seasoning is mixed with buttermilk and cream cheese before getting coated in panko and plunged into the f...

"Have you considered your future, Archie?" "Have I considered my future?  Well, lets see... I was top of my class in junior, ...

Jared Towers was in his research vessel on two separate occasions watching killer whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when the orcas dr...

Last night I received this email message, written by an eBay seller in the London area - It would seem that the UK post office as well as th...

The result of a lightning strike .  I've blogged this topic before - Lichtenberg figures , The path lightning takes through a cow...

Here's the owner's story, posted at Reddit : The lamp is a glass jar full of all the things that my mom found in my pockets ...

Anders Lund Madsen is a professional comedian.  These supplemental notes from the uploader/subtitler: The reason i didn't translate...

For as long as I can remember we have had balloon flowers ( Campanula ) gracing our front flower gardens with intense color in late summer. ...

I think everyone knows that when you open Netflix, what you are shown is curated to your interests and viewing history.  So the home page af...

I want to share one photo from an interesting article about tick bites causing allergy to meat and dairy products (the alpha gal syndrome). ...

... and listen to this woman telling you about her ducks.  Via Neatorama .

Chilling details from the report in The Guardian : A man who had returned home from his allotment with a trug of vegetables and gardening to...

  We've all seen on television news the Xs spray-painted on houses as signals to searchers and rescuers.  I didn't know until now th...