This year's Xmas Card
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This year's Xmas Card
Has a suitably festive theme (for some definitions of festive)
The PDF is here
https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas2024.pdf
the illustration comes from a 1900-ish card via this article
https://hyperallergic.com/261847/have-a ... ian-cards/
The PDF is here
https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas2024.pdf
the illustration comes from a 1900-ish card via this article
https://hyperallergic.com/261847/have-a ... ian-cards/
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Just to wish the appropriate "Festive Felicitations" to all!
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Happy Hogswatch to all....
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Salutations to all...
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Just to wish everybody all the very best over the festive period!
May 2026 be a better year for all of us!
May 2026 be a better year for all of us!
Comments wanted:
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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Cheers and yes! Jolly improvements all round.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:51 pmJust to wish everybody all the very best over the festive period!
May 2026 be a better year for all of us!
I was young, I was naïve.
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Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year!
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Happy Christmas, everyone!
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Is it still Xmas at your end of existence?
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•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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The rumours of my death have been greatly - hey, who butchered my avatar!?
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What are the consequences of the inexistence of your avatar for your own existence?Wildeblood wrote: ↑Thu Dec 25, 2025 9:57 pmThe rumours of my death have been greatly - hey, who butchered my avatar!?
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•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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Well, I hope it's not what they call an "omen". You can see it, too, right? It's not just me?Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 12:20 amWhat are the consequences of the inexistence (sic) of your avatar for your own existence?
It is now boxing day, and a pleasant 20C. Christmas Day is now yesterday, which was 43C here. (I think, either we are experiencing a "cool change", or the heat is making me hallucinate.)
R.I.P. John Lodge, 1943-2025.
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I too can also see that the unseeable is unseeable.
Back in Blighty it has been rather frigid. Some sunshine on the day itself, but Xmas Eve heralded the start of a cold snap. No snow, of course, although it was predicted. Circa 150° on the
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Back in Blighty it has been rather frigid. Some sunshine on the day itself, but Xmas Eve heralded the start of a cold snap. No snow, of course, although it was predicted. Circa 150° on the
Comments wanted:
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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Looking at your profile, I notice that "Interests: Nil known."Wildeblood wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 5:43 amWell, I hope it's not what they call an "omen". You can see it, too, right? It's not just me?
Might the lack of interests be related to the lack of avatar?
Comments wanted:
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
•Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
•Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
•Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?