barn scores

Knew I left these somewhere...











Found this stuff clearing out... packed away 5 6 years ago. Not enough days in the week to use the clothes I already have, forget buying more.
Love that PlanetoftheApes/Sinatra cardigan; made in Norway so it says.
Blue duck Carhartt, remember that stuff...
Deer Creek wool shirt/jac ftw.

crispin cider

The latest offering from the Crispin Cider Company in Minneapolis, MN is a cider 100% pressed, fermented and produced in England. "Crisply effervescent cider made with traditional English bittersweet cider apples sourced in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire." Sounds good. 5.8ABV so tread lightly glass jawed types.

This Browns Lane cider is named after the original Jaguar car factory in England. Packaged in British racing green, nice touch. Gramps had an old green Jag'; dual petrol tanks, full leather etc. #tank.

Browns Lane in Coventry, England was originally built as a World War II shadow factory run by the Daimler Motor Company. In 1951 it was leased by Jaguar Cars and remained the company's home until 2005. It was the site of all Jaguar production until 1998...
-thanks wiki.

that two foot of fresh look

Johnson Woolen Mill jacket.
Ibex first layer.
Labonville braces.
Kinco HiVis gloves.
NoBoard stomp pad on an old board.
Darn Tough socks
Carhartt lined pants.
Drop x Bigfoot goggles.
Hardhat liner for a hat. It velcros under the chin -clutch.

oor wullie -2

Collage via Chris Kohler.

Also newish is an Oor Wullie book called Dungarees; packed wi' notes about escapades and get-rich-quick schemes, clippings from allsorts o' important magazines and more mischief than onybody should ken! There's pages fae PC Murdoch's notebook, April Fool capers, heaps o' homework excuses, and a school report that never made it hame... There's even some sissy poems that must've been written by Primrose. How did they get there? Nae lassies allowed... More.

library of congress -train

Little cutesy for adults maybe, but decent ad from the Library of Congress (created by Butter) encouraging readers to hop a train to a faraway land, via literature.

libraries are invisible -unless you use donuts

Had not thought of this point recently raised by Marilyn Johnson (author of This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All). Worth noting and tough to reverse.

Libraries are invisible to people in power. Politicians [and corporate bodies generally i would say -ed.] have their own research staffs and IT support and newspaper subscriptions; they don’t see how dependent the rest of us are on that shared information.
-Marilyn Johnson

A definite bright spark for libraries and museums was the recent passing of S. 3984 by the House in the closing days of the 111th Congress -it was signed into law on December 22, 2010. S. 3984 (The Museum and Library Services Act) was created to authorize funding at current levels for library and museum services around the country through 2016. Further reading.

In addition, this bill authorizes funding for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program which provides education assistance grants for those pursuing careers as librarians, and it expands the definition of museums eligible for funding to include those with digital collections. The Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services will also now be required to develop and implement a policy for ensuring that the availability of museum, library and information services adequately meets the needs of the American people.

Endnote: I always come back to a quote from my tutor Alan Smith, worth repeating;

"Show me a town that denies funding to a library, and I'll show you a librarian who stays in the office. Show me a town that funds its library, and I'll show you a librarian who takes donuts down to the fire department. Who goes down to the city hall and goes into offices asking if they need anything. You have to be proactive. It might come as a shock to some of you, but a large part of the success of that library is your personality and the way you treat people."