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Hiatus and moving to a new location...

The day has finally come... or at least the ball is finally rolling, I've talked about moving this blog elsewhere in the past, just wasn't quite sure where to start. However, via The Wrambling Webcomic Review , I followed this very useful guide on setting up a website and am finally in the process of uncoupling this lot from Google. At last, we're on the road to success! This means no more wrestling with a shite post editor, no more worries over what is and isn't going to get flagged as 'too naughty' to go on the blog and being realistic, no more pondering when the Sword of Damocles is going to come slamming down on Blogger. Maybe I'm just taking an excessively dim view of things but yeah, it doesn't exactly strike me as the most jumpin' platform in 2026, let's put it that way. It also means more flexibility on how I display, organise and format things, which is ideal! It's all up in the air right now while I re-learn HTML, but I've had ...
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Magical History Tour: The Staircase House

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At long last, I made good on my intention to visit the Staircase House in Stockport, caught a train for the first time since about October last year ( not a harrowing endeavour for once!) and got a bit carried away with taking pictures, so they'll have to be sorted and split between a couple of posts. Our destination today is the oldest surviving house in Stockport, a 15th century townhouse that joins onto the museum, which was covered in a couple of previous posts ( part one and part two .) It also contains a cage-newel staircase, one of 3 that still exist in the UK (according to the Stockport council website); the one here was previously damaged in a fire and has since been restored, which results in an interesting contrast with gnarled, charred wood butting up against the restored structure. But that's getting ahead of ourselves, and while the staircase is the main draw, there's plenty to see here. So, let's start by contradicting the advice of salamander Danny Elf...
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More miniscule adventures!

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  La Chouette there, taking the concept of Free Roam a bit too literally... It's time again for some more shots from art of rally, which has pretty swiftly zoomed its way to being one of my favourite games; it's very easy to love. I've been trying out some different cars, still wrestling with the flippy spinny bastards RWD motors in career mode and having some leisurely strolls around, just to soak up the scenery for a while. Also, of course, keeping an eye out for the funny little things written on the bottom of each car. It's ideal to squeeze in when you've got half an hour or so going spare before work (before I then go to work, and end up going spare in a different sense.) Investigating the buzz surrounding the Rotary 3 (based on a Mazda RX-3), the blurb for which mentions that the engine "sounds like a thousand enraged wasps."   Quite literally driving off into the sunset in Finland, a very pleasant experience.   " You ain't seen me... roigh...
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