This evening: La belle France Comment se fait-il que le début fassent justice en belle France ? An English person either detests France, sees it as a source of cheap alcohol or has a love affair with it. I am of the latter group. Let’s get the patriotic stuff out of the way first:
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Soon after setting up the forum, we went very quiet because we were setting up the infrastructure – the database of how to contact MPs and candidates, letters, contacting people around the UK and so on. My job this week is to list the initial bloggers who ran our banner and to do that, I [...]
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Comments, trackbacks and pings are off on this post, nor will I discuss it on another post. There are a few things: 1. I’m in great danger of joining the ranks of the employed again and combined with the Mac being on its last legs, this impinges on blogging but not only that – also [...]
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An anti-capitalist, anti-religious site used the following as an argument for State control and against free enterprise: Every time we go into a shop these days we are presented with an increasing choice. Even if we are buying mundane items, we still have to choose. Try going for a coffee. Chances are you’ll be asked [...]
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This evening: Kernow First up, the Cornish Tsunami report:
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The pic was taken half an hour ago when I went back to the gym for training for the first time since the dental work [more in two weeks]. It was fabulous and made me feel so nostalgic, both for the England I used to know and for Russia of course. Now one excellent aspect [...]
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Witterings from Witney points out that David Cameron promised three things: 1. That no further transfer of power to the EU would occur without a referendum having been held. 2 . That he would instigate a Sovereignty Bill that would make clear ultimate sovereignty remained with the UK’s Parliament. 3. That he would negotiate the [...]
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Jesse’s Café Américain on the coming part two of the double dip: “At this point it is without doubt that even the government understands that when things turn sour, and they will, the run on the bank will be unavoidable: their solution – prevent money from being dispensed, when that moment comes. The thing about [...]
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1. Cows drink how many gallons of water each day: 5-10, 25-50 or 75-100? 2. How many upper teeth do cows have? 3. In miles, how far away can a cow detect an odour: 2, 5, 15? 4. Can cows hear higher or lower frequencies than humans or both lower and higher? 5. In gallons, [...]
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This evening: Éire Céad mile fáilte and may the wind be always at your back. With the Irish charm, lilting silver tongues, their lyricism and the blessing of the blarney, the welcome is hard to resist. Auden pointed out, about Yeats: “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather [...]
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[The former Soviet Union is a prime target of this blog, along with the European leadership and the forces behind and below them. So when a 2006 article came along which I saw at the time but didn't comment on, it was pretty well what we'd thought from our reading. Thanks, Wolfie, for bringing this [...]
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Try these: 1. What is a Semitone? ["Half a tone" is not enough] 2. What is a Sharp? 3. What is the purpose of a Bar line? 4. What is an Accidental? 5. What does the Key tell you about a piece of music? Answers Smallest gap between one note and the next, a half-step; [...]
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This evening: Cymru What better place to start than with the rugby:
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15:11 The US and UK today shut down their Yemeni embassies. Are things getting nasty or is this a kneejerk reaction? I’ve cobbled together some thoughts from a few sites: 1. Afghanistan was a haven for many dedicated Muslims who wanted to participate in a jihad and Pakistan has complicated reasons for its ambivalent stance. [...]
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14:56 Wonko might be putting us on as a holiday jest but it appears that there has been an explosion in Shrewsbury. Click the link for details. What this says to me is that the MSM is way behind for info dissemination. First is Twitter, second is the blog and a long way behind – [...]
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For weeks I’ve been thinking of saying this but found myself, like so many other small c and even capital Conservatives, in a dispiriting dilemma of gargantuan proportions – whom to vote for. Firstly, there are grave problems with the parties on offer, as their current policy statements stand, not their historical roots. I’m in [...]
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Welshcakes is that intrepid Welsh blogger, to be found in sunny Sicily, where she has made her home and from the culinary parlour of L’Altro Posto to her gastroenterologist friend: I have been the recipient of some strange invitations since I moved to Sicily but I think the strangest must be the unexpected one I [...]
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This evening: Alba Caraidean, please spend 3 minutes 27 seconds to view the youtube of one of the most beautiful lands on earth - the mist, the mountains, the heather – this is Alba.
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What these Islamic militants are proposing is par for the course – they plan to march through a town known for its patriotic vigils as servicemen who died o.a.d. are returned and they plan to do dirt on that, in the name of Islam4UK. There could not be an event, short of another bombing, more [...]
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The disappearance of Australian PM Harold Holt in 1967 has never quite died away as a story and with good reason – there are anomalies, lies and the times themselves were a hotbed of agitation and world trouble – these times included the Kennedy assassination. A search of my old blog reveals that this subject [...]
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This blog supports the atheists. Yes. Particularly the Irish atheists. And to do that, it supports a quote misattributed to one of its bêtes noire, Voltaire [peace be upon him]: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. The Beeb: An atheist group in the [...]
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Remember … Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
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Starting this evening: a series of tributes to various nations. First up: England. When England awakes from slumber, it might well say to Napoleon’s heirs and supporters: “Oh, son, speak not so venturesome, for England is the heart of oak of England, Scotland, and Ireland – the unity can ne’er be broke … if it [...]
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Well, it was predictable and probably right: Sean Connery (62%, 28 Votes) Daniel Craig (29%, 13 Votes) Pierce Brosnan (22%, 10 Votes) Timothy Dalton (16%, 7 Votes) Roger Moore (11%, 5 Votes) George Lazenby (-40%, 3 Votes) So let’s see what 2011 brings.
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In an article on mental health and education policy, one wonders about the mental health of commenters who seemed to turn the issue of a Northern Ireland MP into a diatribe about homosexuality and Christianity. No matter – to the issue. Mental health is one of those “hard to defines”, not unlike bad backs and [...]
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Prat of the new decade: A British radio presenter has been sacked after he pulled the plug on the Queen’s traditional Christmas Day speech, telling listeners it was “boring”. Tom Binns has lost his job at Birmingham radio station BRMB after listeners complained over his interruption of the monarch’s traditional December 25 broadcast to Britain [...]
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The first thing about Chris Elliott is that he is a well connected young man, if he still is young and if he is a man. That is not to cast aspersions on him but merely to illustrate one of the problems in the sphere – one never knows with whom one is actually dealing. [...]
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