Ship of Fools: Sometimes you just click

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Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on :

There are too many links to click on in the world, or even just SoF, but my finger slipped as I read one post and I found myself among the excellent Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley.

Any recommendations from shipmates for other enjoyable sites? Nothing too high-brow please!

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Whatever the browage of your site, some account of why it is clickworthy will stop this thread becoming a mere list.

Firenze
Encouraging Heaven Host

Posted by mrs whibley (# 4798) on :

I can second the recommendation for the Beaker Folk. The writer, whilst on the surface appearing to blog about her slightly eccentric cult, provides a wry look at life in general, Christian life in particular, and middle-class English Anglican life especially, which often causes me to laugh out loud. There are also lots of links to other great blogs, which I find can fill an evening easily.

Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on :

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Originally posted by Firenze:
Whatever the browage of your site, some account of why it is clickworthy will stop this thread becoming a mere list.

My apologies for not singing the praises of Archdruid Eileen or explaining my enthusiasm. And my thanks to mrs whibley for her summary, to which I can add nothing.

Posted by angelica37 (# 8478) on :

I discovered the Beaker Folk a while back and love the Archdruid's sense of humour

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

And now for something completely different (as Christopher Trace of Blue Peter used to say all those years ago).

Some of you may know I'm a model railway nut. One of the persistent problems with train sets and the like is the space they take up. To help people get round some of these difficulties the late Carl Arendt ran a website for many years extolling micro-layouts which he defined as being no more than three square feet in area. OK, maybe four. Some are even in shoeboxes and they all feature operating model railways.

Amazing, inspirational guy and much missed.

Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on :

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
To help people get round some of these difficulties the late Carl Arendt ran a website for many years extolling micro-layouts which he defined as being no more than three square feet in area.

Throughout my childhood I longed for a train set but my mother (a single parent in the 1950s) couldn't afford to get me one. All kids seem irresistibly drawn to 'tiny worlds' but mine had to stay imaginary. Now in my sixties I fear the impulse has gone. Some wonderful models however, maybe I should investigate a bit more - our garden shed is pretty empty!

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