Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:

• I don’t know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don’t know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don’t know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.

I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I’m very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I’ve also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

It reminds me of Vermeer’s Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?

Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.

But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.

Thanks, yes that’s a more useful source than my one.

I think this would be the best way to go.

Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.

It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.

Ian’s Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I’ve been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.

Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?

I started using fountain pens because they were compulsory at school. I had a nice old green Parker Junior with a broad gold nib that a relative gave me. I really liked writing with that pen so much that I’ve used them ever since.