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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read
Halloween
A Halloween jack o’ lantern

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laneway / laneway house (paid)

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Poster of a dirigible over London at night, saying “It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb”

dirigible

25 February 2026 Today, the word dirigible is almost always used as a noun, referring to a zeppelin-type airship, and I always had it in my head that the word was related to rigid, a reference to the rigid frame of such an aircraft. But that is not the case.
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