"Mama, why is he lying down?"
"Well he never really deserved to be standing, he was a rich, bad man who made his money moving people around the world where they were forced to be slaves."
Also Blessed Be Slavery ? (& tax-free property.) Ye Olde Church of England exploited chattel slavery on plantations owned by its missionary arm, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
(on the mobile web I get an annoyingly oversized and intrusive "back to top" icon upon scrolling down on pages of https://dabristol.org.uk, so sorry if you do too)
I enjoyed giving a talk, dare I even say it'd be fun to do another one? I don't know what else to talk about though. Do ideas for talks just come, like blog posts? Or should I ask followers for what they'd like to hear about?
Personally, I find it odd that some people apply to speak at events with no idea what they will speak about, or ask people what they should speak about.
I've only ever done public speaking on a topic that I care about, know about, want to share with people, and think I can make entertaining in some way.
So, yeah, I submit talks when I have the ideas for them. And it's usually: I know lots about this interesting thing that an audience doesn’t!
@sarajw@christian
Opposite side of the country, Southend. They drive up and down the sea front, then "cruise" down the river and congregate in massive car parks till the police move them on and they cruise back to Southend, Rincewind and repeat.
Sara is beset by boxes. She fits them into each other like snug Russian dolls, compresses packaging as best she can, unfolds and flattens the boxes that allow for it.
She pauses. And sighs. She picks one up and walks with it into the utility room, adding a new Good Box to the now-teetering Good Box pile.
"But it is a good box. Might come in handy," she mutters to herself. One of those Good Boxes has a postage label on it from the 1990s. Good Box.
Also I feel shamed as a once-physics-teacher - I didn't know or remember that the sun changed polarity every 11 years. That's cool and weird and mind blowing.
@sarajw at least you'd been out for a while. I saw the news report about midday on the day and thought - oooooo I might be able to tick the AB off my bucket list! The promptly forgot and had an early night.
(I really wish they'd pick a more international T-shirt store than Cotton Bureau though - can we have something more local to not-USA, @sachagreif? The shipping costs are more than half the shirt!)
So I've been suffering with #PlantarFasciitis for a while, months ago I made a flurry of posts about it because it was so troublesome.
Well, at the conference I'm currently leaving, I did a lot of walking. It hasn't been too much for me energy wise but my feet have complained - I even have a fat blister to show for it!
But you know which foot is fine? My right one. The telltale PF pain spot is fine! It ached a little last night but this morning it's good!