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Donna's Close Shave

This will be performed on the 31st May at Wiggies in Hornchurch (near Hornchurch Stn) at 11 am. I will post Before and After photos for those who think I won’t go through with it!

Right guys, Donna is having her head shaved for ADD+UP which is a charity that has been helping Daniel (our son) cope and socialise as he has ADD and Aspergers. They are a small charity that doesn’t benefit from the publicity large charities enjoy and so their funds are more meager than most. Its got to be worth 10p to make her look like a sad person!

• Plot Twist: All exams get cancelled because the government finally realise that they are actually just marking your memory and not your intelligence and teenagers should be experiencing life and having a good time instead of sit revising bollocks they're not going to use in the future

daisydeadpetals:

tastefullyoffensive:

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I think this made my day

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Ancient artery clogging!

archaeologistsdontdigdinosaurs:

A little face peering up from a clod of frozen mud in Denmark has proved to be a unique find: the only known 3D Viking representation of a valkyrie.

The figurine, believed to date from about AD800, was found in December and has gone straight from conservation to display in the National Museum in Copenhagen. It will then be included in the exhibition on the Viking age that opens there in June and at the British Museum in 2014.

The legends of the valkyries – the ominous companions of the god Odin who descend on battlefields to choose which warriors will die – have been among the most enduring in Scandinavian folklore and literature. Later images, often inspired by Wagner’s music, tend to be romantic creatures with flowing locks and voluptuous bodies.

The thumb-sized figurine is made of gilded silver, with some black niello inlay decoration. The valkyrie is sturdily dressed, armed with a double-sided Viking sword and a round shield, her hair neatly twisted into a long ponytail forming a loop, suggesting it may have been worn as a pendant.

Four views of the valkyrie, the only 3D depiction from the Viking era known to exist Photograph: Asger Kjærgaard/Odense Bys Museer
Small, flat images of striding women, believed to represent valkyrie, have been found on many Danish Viking sites, but nothing like this figurine. Its survival is something of a miracle: the lower legs and feet are missing, and it was found among fragments of scrap metal, so somebody may have started to chop it up to be melted down to extract its silver content.

Mogens Bo Henriksen, an archaeologist and curator at the Odense city museum, on Funen island near the find site, described the figurine as “unique” and said: “There can hardly be any doubt that the figure depicts one of Odin’s valkyries as we know them from the sagas as well as from Swedish picture stones from the time around AD700,” he said.

The figurine was found at the end of December by Morten Skovsby, who was learning how to use a metal detector with three amateur archaeologists near the village of Hårby.

Henriksen hopes that after the figurine’s travels – during which it will be displayed near the largest Viking ship ever found – it will return to be exhibited in Odense.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YdqC1RLCk&feature=youtu.be

The more we find out the more we understand that Neanderthals were human and not savages

How work makes you feel!

fibrearts:

Kitten’s Claw, Bobble on the Beach, Seaside Sun, Brighter Daze, and Sea Kist; all with patterns on Ravelry

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truebluemeandyou:

DIY Dopamine Molecule Valentines Day (Dopamine Day) Printables from Made With Molecules here. First seen at Evil Mad Scientist here.

earth911:

One more reason to order pizza tonight! You can also turn old boxes into easels.

askthegreenfairy:

Ilya Andreev, via Behance, shows us how to make a laptop stand out of a pizza box!

Bloody brilliant!

Brilliant recycling

handmadepride:

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madewithpaper:

Even if there are no answers, sometimes it helps to know we’re asking the same questions.

by ferventsynchronocity

…it was a tough night and I had too much no one could answer.