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[thaddeus6th]

I reviewed Philip Matyszak's Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day:
Thaddeus the Sixth: Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day, by Philip Matyszak

Peat, just reading that and I think you omitted a bit by mistake: "Cox's hyper-masculinity is at times toxic but at the same time, he spends the majority of the series' arc"

Watched Scrubs, and liked it a lot, but not Brooklyn 99 (caught a snippet but that little bit didn't grab me).

 

[The Big Peat]

Aha! See Bryan. I told you it wasn't properly baked Thanks Thad, amended now.

 

[HareBrain]

Look, I didn't read it, did I? I just paid the compliments mandated by our blackmail agreement.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Np, easy to miss stuff one's written oneself.

 

[Biskit]

Our hens are starting to laying something fierce right now. Went from 1 or 2 a day over winter to nearly 10. It will be egg gifting season soon.

Oh yes... We've somehow maintained a 2-3 per day over the winter. When I wrote the blog it had gone up to 4-5 a day, and yesterday they laid 8. On past experience, the peak in a month or two could be a dozen and a half per day, which is an awful lot of omelettes.

 

[CTRandall]

the peak in a month or two could be a dozen and a half per day, which is an awful lot of omelettes.

How does a chicken lay half an egg?

 

[night_wrtr]

Never Tell Me The Odds A few of my thoughts on the publication mountain writers face and choosing not to be discouraged by it.

 

[Biskit]

How does a chicken lay half an egg?

Half eggs bottom right.
(OK, I really meant 1.5 dozen, but the baby eggs are fun.)

 

[night_wrtr]

Nice mix @Biskit . We have about 4 shades of brown and white, but all roughly the same size.

We buy quail eggs every so often because the kids love how small they are and the fun patterns. I guess those can be considered quarter eggs.

 

[Biskit]

Nice mix @Biskit . We have about 4 shades of brown and white, but all roughly the same size.

We buy quail eggs every so often because the kids love how small they are and the fun patterns. I guess those can be considered quarter eggs.

We've seen even smaller eggs than those - it usually seems to be a hen just coming into lay, or sometimes an elderly hen.
As for colours, ours hens are a mongrel flock with some Araucuna genes in there so we also get blue/green, and we have one hen who lays a rich mauve/brown egg, and some White Leghorn that lay the really crisp white. Somewhere (can't find it now) we have a 'rainbow egg collection' photo.

 

[CTRandall]

Next in the series of Books that Should Not Be: a review of Douglas Adams' rewrite of Memoirs of a Geisha

 

[Stephen Palmer]

This week I wrote a new series on the theme of SF and its speculation about consciousness and the mind.
Here's part 1...
These are opinion pieces. Replies welcome!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Replied to, CT!

 

[CTRandall]

A follow up to one of my previous experiments with big tech and big data. Breaking Google Translate. Again. With the help of Scotland and Star Wars.

 

[AlexH]

A follow up to one of my previous experiments with big tech and big data. Breaking Google Translate. Again. With the help of Scotland and Star Wars.

Coincidence: https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/570502/post-2309700

 

[CTRandall]

@AlexH Thanks for that link. I haven't read that collection yet so it was nice to find a new (for me) poem from her. And the coincidence is kind of cool, too!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

On not box-ticking - Jo Zebedee I had a little rant. This one focuses on being inclusive with our characters.

 

[Biskit]

Sheep. Can't seem to get away from sheep. As it happens, a writing prompt coincided with the last chapter of our black sheep, Cilla, so, Fade To Black.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Loads of new posts!

 

[thaddeus6th]

I rambled about my book (Crown of Blood, out 6 April), and posted the lovely map I drew using expert cunning: Crown of Blood – out 6 April