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Where shall we start?
The Universe?
Your comments are welcome, positive and negative.
I am klunn at tinet.org
I don’t use “social media” like Facebook or Twitter, just e-mail.
British and foreign trains, old London buses, coaches, trolleybuses, trams, underground; planes & airports; daft signs
My ancestors, some going back to the 1600s;
some relevant census tables; meanings of surnames;
speed-skating on the fens; Parish Registers;
the Family Research Centre and Public Records Office;
Archdeacon’s (A/Ts) and Bishop’s (B/Ts) Transcripts;
families Adamson, Clements, Croad, Gardner, Lunn, See and Smart; relevant extracts from censuses from 1841 to 1911
Sun, planets, dwarf planets, moons, rings, asteroids, Kuiper belt, quasi-satellites, Hill sphere, comets, stars, nebulae, galaxies; theories; Lagrange points; constellations; gravitational slingshots, resonances; Pioneer, Voyager, New Horizons, Rosetta, etc.; and how to fly a spaceship
Champion divers and hunky men: Tom Daley, Chris Mears, Matt Mitcham, naked Warwick rowers, AussieBum and some guys from the “Belami” & “Kinky Angels” studios [some photos show explicit nudity (and a few are XXX)]
Jokes (of all sorts, puns, howlers), comedy (some TV), comedians, sports mishaps, puzzles (no 
jigsaws – find them on the web e.g. Jigsaw Planet), sudoku, real ale, pubs, and money (which isn’t particularly funny per se, but you need it for many things that are). There’s also a lot of fun you can have and odd things you can do with
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and I’ve a few more serious remarks about the language itself
George Gammer’s photography, geology, the climate and weather (clouds and storms), beautiful scenery, the Galápagos Islands, animals (birds, cats and dogs, a few more felines, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects), plants, roads and paths, buildings (London and many weird ones elsewhere – and while we’re in London, a trip up the River Thames), miscellaneous art, last moments, BBC’s best of 2014...
and, of course, there are lots of photos in the web pages devoted to specific subjects
Science, scientists (including Einstein, Newton and Turing; and a selection of TV science presenters); the Big Bang, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Gravitational Waves, Atoms, the Higgs Boson, Dark Matter & Dark Energy; Maths, Conway’s Game of Life, polyhedra & fractals
Paintings, poems, songs, fiction, plays, Chaucer, Shakespeare, films, radio, music (Beethoven to 10cc)
And four stories from my own pen
BREXIT
Religions, monarchies, state-sponsored brutality against other nations (armed forces) and their own citizens (police) are abominations; most states (including so-called “democracies”) are corrupt, with governments and law-enforcers uncontrolled – this is just a sample of my totally reasonable bigotry; Daesh, Catalan democracy, American Arms. [And I don’t hold out much hope for the future of civilization on this planet.]
Final Version, # 19,
16th July 2016, created by K J Lunn, 2011 – 2016.
No further versions of this web site are planned.
This web site should appear correctly on all browsers that support HTML 5, but I developed it on a laptop; I hope it’s not too awful to use on a smaller-screened device.
The principal browser that I have used to generate and test all pages is Opera (up to version 37.0), using Windows 10. I have no access to an Apple computer or a newfangled hand-held thingamajig; I hope all’s well in those areas!
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[Start of Excuse:] If you’re wondering why I keep updating this web site, it’s therapy for me; I suffer from bipolar disorder*, depression, asthma, migraines, arthritis, muscular cramps and some other age-related things. So adding to and reorganising this web keeps me (almost) sane. And I like polishing nose-cones. [End of Excuse]
* Here are two excellent press items about bipolar disorder, in The Guardian and The Independent; Wikipedia has quite a good article too. See also “Pull Yourself Together!”.
An American organisation called 
healthline.com
contacted me recently and asked me to publicise their
“Bipolar Disorder Infographic – Healthline”. So I just did. They have apparently
no specific axe to grind (for example, religious
indoctrination) just improving people’s health;
they are funded by advertising.
You won’t learn much from this site (or maybe you will), but they may point you to other sites that do lead you to things that amuse you or make you think. Also there are some of my thoughts on life, the universe and everything.
Some of the stuff here is quite serious; for example, an account of the recently-discovered Higgs Boson, because I suppose that most people have heard of it but don’t know what all the fuss was about. Other material is (in my opinion [not a humble cliché one]) funny, both in the sense that the kids might laugh or Great-Aunt Maud wouldn’t need resuscitating, and also in the sense that it’s bawdy or worse (better?).
I’d like to thank all those people who have supported and contributed to this web.
This version of my web site will remain online for you to browse, agree with, feel utter contempt for, or whatever. All views are mine, even when I have extensively quoted from articles in other web spaces. If I disagree with what others have written, I say so. I make no apology for anything that you may find objectionable, except to say that I wish your views coincided a little more with mine!
Still, it’s a good job we’re not all the same – there lies boredom and monotony. Indeed I’ll go further and say that I hope you’ve been offended by some of the things in here.
Photographs: Almost every page contains relevant photographs, and there are the Photo Galleries. I was going to put a picture of “Nessie” (The Loch Ness Monster) in one of the photo galleries, but is it a fish, a reptile, an amphibian, a mammal, a tree branch, or a hoax? I don’t know, so go and see what others think.
the BBC News web site
or 
the Independent (or i) web site
The Intercept web site
La Vanguardia web site (in Spanish)
Some time ago the BBC (ITV, etc.) changed their satellite transmissions to hone in on the UK. So we lost BBC 1/2/3/4/News, other TV channels and BBC Radio stations from our television. Fortunately all is not lost as we now watch and listen on the internet, using a free service FilmOn which gives us all the old channels and more.
The BBC (A TV forecaster said once: “Temperatures tomorrow could reach double figures or even more.” – Phew!)
The Met Office
Photos of clouds and other weather events
Collins Spanish Dictionary is invaluable and now available on-line.
(Remember Google’s funded by adverts, so the first sites presented have $$$ or are for associated companies. And it’s involved with British and American spy networks [NSA and GCHQ].)
A “spy-resistant” search engine is DuckDuckGo.
free magazine [advertisement]
and the
London A to Z
WikiLeaks: not part of the Wikimedia Foundation but nevertheless an important and worthwhile project, whose site is often “unavailable” (I wonder why‽).
Wikiphilia: A mental illness characterized by the irrational conviction that any problem faced by a group can be rendered solvable through installation and use of a Wiki. This delusional ailment has been occurring in increasing numbers ever since it was first identified in 1995.
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Wikipedia; the free encyclopedia, usually authoritative; I highly recommend it. The point about Wikis is that anyone, even you or I, can edit the information, preferably to correct errors! They claim that this isn’t as dodgy as it seems.
Wiktionary
an open content dictionary
Wikiquote
a compendium of sourced quotations
Wikinews
the free news source “written by people like you”
Wikispecies
covering all forms of life
Wikisource
a library of free content publications
Wikibooks
an open-content textbooks collection
Wikicommons
freely usable media files
Wikiversity
devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research
All this lot is under the auspices of
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.”
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