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Wow! Like a megalodon had taken a bite out of it.

There’s victims and victims. The Iliad shows plenty of sympathy for Hector (arguably the most likable character of the poem), but precious little for Briseis.

Lucky you!

I didn’t know Squeeze were still going. They wrote some truly great songs with wonderful lyrics. Cool for Cats and Up the Junction were particular favourites of mine.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Uppsala sometime!

Dunno about harrowing, but it was hard work - especially the larger blocks. We only climbed to the locality every other day; the other days we worked a locality in the Aina Dal Formation just below the camp. That one yielded the famous Ichthyostega hind limb with seven toes.

We haven’t had these yet, but if they have reached Britain now I guess they’ll get to Sweden in a week or two. I will look out for them.

Oh yes! I have a big bedrock exposure in my back garden, with visible ice scratches.

I once saw one of those giant multi-deck cruise ships described as “a human lasagna” and now I can’t unsee it.

Ditto

What is it with these people? A few years ago one of the leading figures in our anti-immigrant party, Sverigedemokraterna, announced that he was leaving Sweden for Hungary - because it is a healthy society where (checks notes) they don’t tolerate immigrants…

Also, please learn the difference between "you're" and "your".

Learn to read before you pronounce on what others have said. You have completely misunderstood my post. What I am saying is: I have a problem with people who CLAIM to be woke but in fact spout misogynist bullshit. Not being misogynistic is an essential part of being woke. Now do you understand?

And yes, they are quite magic. The trees are festooned with beard lichens as well. A sign of an undisturbed and almost pollution-free environment. And all this is a 10-minute drive from my house.

In this particular forest they grow principally on bedrock (Precambrian granite) that's exposed in long parallel ridges, smoothed into undulating rounded shapes by ice sheet abrasion during the Pleistocene.

Isn't it? That's a reindeer lichen, genus Cladonia, probably C. stellaris. They are abundant forest-floor lichens here, and in the north they form an important food source for reindeer.

They should be. They ripen later than the bilberries and last longer.

Absolutely! This is not an argument against wokeness, quite the contrary.

They work well both ways. We will eat some of them fresh with a chocolate pudding tonight, but the rest we will probably freeze and keep for making jam.