Best Arctic expedition ever

You can't really ward off a polar bear with Oxo cubes. I made that up. I think the thing you have to do with polar bears is you gotta get someone to pee on it.
Yeah that's it.

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a dream in which there is a natty hat

A while ago I came across a whole bunch carved walls of sandstone of various sizes on an area of overgrown land. I couldn't work out what they were but thought they must have been something more than a bunch of rocks and cliffs because they were all carved at right angles which doesn't really happen much in nature.
Yesterday I found out (by being told by someone who actually knew) that they were once part of a water garden belonging to the local manor house which is now part of a safari park and cut off from this piece of land by a bypass road.
At one point there was a bunch of waterfalls and stuff leading into a pond fed by giant sandstone cisterns. I bet it looked pretty neat when it was still active and maintained.
Speaking of maintenance the pond is still there and feeds into a culvert which until yesterday had been lost. It was so overgrown that even the environmental agency didn't know it was there.
Now thanks to some well-meaning locals it has been defoliated and now the pond shouldn't flood so easily. As long as it is maintained regularly.

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Gods

I was leafing through this souvenir Egyptian guide my ma brought back and I was looking at all the ol' gods and that. All the familiar ones were there. Bird face, dog face, other bird face, croc face and hat guy but there was this one I hadn't come across before.

Khephri has the head of a beetle and is associated with rolling the sun across the sky like a giant dung ball. But jeez when they drew him they must have given the job to an intern or something. He pretty much looks like he fell asleep and a scarab got too friendly with his face. Or like the first casualty in an ancient version of Alien.
Maybe there was some confusion about which way up a beetle was meant to be and they just gave it their best shot. I can forgive them they had limited technology.

In other news I discovered how to use photo-shop filters.
Let the lens-flare abuse begin.

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One hundred made up bugs (that I found in your memorial garden)

Gotta catch'em all.

Y'know if you want to.
I don't wanna put any pressure on you or nothing.
It's really up to you.
But if you do want to go out and catch them all then I think that'd be a good plan of action and also kinda neat.

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zeppelin

Figured I'd try some things out.
Kinda stumbling in the dark here.
But the outcome is pretty enough.
With more than a modicum of influence from xkcd.
I love that comic.

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mogwai

I figured I'd go against the norm and give out candy on Halloween rather than being a mean ol' Boo Radley.
Thing is it seems the tradition has changed from Trick OR Treat to Trick AND Treat.
Luckily the local kids don't know pranks from Prit-stick.
Ketchup upside the garage?
That scores about 2/10 on the prank o-meter.
2.5 tops.

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