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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 10h

There's endangered in Iceland, and then there's endangered in the Blaskets FWIW smoked puffin tastes rather like smoked salmon: remarkably fishy

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 16h

That's a good point. I'd expect a pseudonym to be one that's a name current to the generation of the writer, but that's not a hard rule

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 17h

I strongly suspect I know people who know her. I mildly suspect I know her without knowing I know her She's probably a generation older than the naming that started this thread though

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 20h

I think that's actually a pen name. I'm pretty sure I've been at an event which she also attended, and that name wasn't on the attendees list Ofc she may have attended under a pseudonym

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hoorah for you being home. That squeezing along the platform on arriving at GdN is not my favourite part though

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why do you never see an elephant in a city? They're too good at hiding behind lampposts.

Text: After being caught eating sugarcane, a baby elephant tried to hide behind a light pole
Two pictures of said baby elephant.

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ah, fixed the multiple pictures

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Given the news about the Yorkshire tiger incident ... Yeah

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"King Charles says that he too had been a victim, and was recently scammed into paying several million dollars to somebody claiming to be a British prince,l - who claimed he needed them for 'legal fees'"

BBC Headline - "King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics". In fairness this is very different to Andrew, who had always been a cunt.

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Heading just looked that up ... yes, wow!

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My ex used to cut holes in that fence to get in, back in the day

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The amusing thing is that the direct Lumo train via Edinburgh Waverley takes longer than the alternative that changes there, because the direct sits at the platform at Waverley for 17 minutes. You can get a train over to Glasgow between the Lumo arriving and it departing again

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah, of course there isn't. That would all be too easy

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ooh. Is that going to change routing to Bulgaria then?

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We tried booking it a little while back, and weren't able to at the time, but if you're booked in that's presumably no longer the case Herself is about to check

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes. And Latin's lack is because to actually split an infinitive would require pulling a single word apart. Imbloodypractical

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm guessing that you're in the Premier Inn looking across the bridge at the Crown Plaza. That's where we go anyway

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The point is to know before you develop the symptoms and before you become infectious, so that you can keep out of people's way

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looks like Bury is the closest option for us

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can report on it to us at Eastercon (more private than on here).

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meanwhile, we're fascinated at the idea of meeting K2. It'll be interesting to see how much they're like K1, and the differences

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes - that con in Glasgow always presented as one for the pros. I think that's why C felt uncomfortable the one time that she attended as a mere fan, some decades back. I hope that that attitude was temporary, but she's never felt the temptation to invest in finding out

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nah, it's the chocolate is too good

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're not long home from Octocon in Cork, and I suspect there'll be a few that will have been at both that and this, including the Czajkowskis. Lally, of course, and Alan & David promoting next Eastercon. We're already doing two cons this month, the second being Bristolcon, so no Glasgow for us

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actual poaching wants a temperature of below 180°F. 210°F is basically at the highest end of simmering, more of a boil (And that's ignoring the unit confusion you had)

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So basically yet another variant! I'd have called that baked eggs, were that term not already seemingly used for cases with multiple eggs per pan

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I presume you meant 'poaching' rather than 'launching'. But what you're showing is coddled eggs And now I'm suggesting where to get silicone egg coddlers, because they look much less likely to stick than the ramekins I use

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah. American eggs have had the protective layer removed from the shell, so they need to be kept in the fridge. If that's how you were brought up, then that's how you'll want to stay In general, if something is refrigerated in the shop, you should refrigerate it at home

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The advice that has worked best for me is to use the eggs chilled from the fridge. It does mean I have to put them in there in the first place, which is advised against on this side of the pond, but I'll leave them in there no longer than overnight

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This. Other methods of cooking eggs whole are perfectly valid, but different

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or at least appropriately chaotic. I'm thinking this might be a RL Call of Cthulhu sanity trap

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FWIW I recall that my godfather stood in Haywards Heath as a Liberal candidate, sometime back at the start of the 70s. He was from Budapest, the Pest side to be more precise

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know, we got home from Barca in a day - Sants to Paris on the TGV, followed by the E*. Quite how you ended up getting stuck in Nimes I can't comprehend (Says he who came home from Prague via Sicily this summer)

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I expect an imminent update of the Michael Crick biography of him, now Crick doesn't have to worry about the libel laws

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Farewell Corcaigh. Doors closing, so going dark

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations. Though commiserations on another couple of years more of exhaustion

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have in the past attended some conventions with no intention of going to any programme. After all, conventions are about coming together It's less convenient when the people you want to see are in programme items though

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And it was lovely to catch up with everyone, Ted and Indy included

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, have a good trip home. I presume that will be today We're currently at the airport, which is better for not having the ongoing work it had this time last year

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And all they had to do was get you to decamp to Dublin? 😁

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This whole end of the island, I guess, judging by the buildings down here

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hope you enjoyed your meal. It's the 3rd time we've been there (1st being with Diane last year, the 2nd 2 nights ago), and we've enjoyed every meal there. It's also very convenient for the hotels Given it apparently opened in 2007, I wonder if you ever visited it when you were here

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Back then, tattoos were so uncommon that, yes, even tattooists were less inked. More inked than their clients, perhaps, but that was a low bar much of the time

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh dear, blocked. And everyone - the one - who followed them

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm worried that Fluffy Cthulhu will think that his dinner is being nicked

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

... visited Market Lane, and the food was, as always, good Getting a goodbye hug was a bonus

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That lovely thing of leaving a restaurant as @cemurphy.bsky.social (as part of a group) comes in. I had earlier asked, this being Cork where she and Ted used to live, for recommendations, but the answer came back that they'd moved away too long ago Well, it was the second time this weekend we'd ...

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Alan Bellingham @bellinghman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

David and Alan are somewhere around ... Oh yeah, they're at that table part way across the bar from here ... And now at our table.

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