Today I go to a menial job in another city, this time minus internet connection of any form – they don’t even run to email. Fine, the only way to handle this eight hours a day wrenched out of a rapidly shortening life is to pretend it’s an adventure and that it will create opportunities [...]
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# Well done to Spain. # Netherlands a disgrace but they couldn’t have done much else. # Should Webb have given the red card and ruined the spectacle or have held off as he did and ruined the spectacle? # Vuvuzelas ruined it and now the cancer has come to England. # Why there is [...]
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I’ve had to hold over Dearieme’s contributions until tomorrow evening, as JD has provided the appropriate anthem for this evening’s Joburg extravaganza:
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Say goodbye for now, sweety.
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English? Had to smile at the piece in the Telegraph by Harry Mount who wrote: On a stroll on Hampstead Heath in the 85 degree heat yesterday, I saw old men brought low by those silly cut-off trousers; middle-aged men in vests, exposing tussocks of white armpit hair; fat young men in T-shirts sculpted to [...]
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Typical reaction from the less vocal: Enfant, n’en déplaise à certains, a besoin de son Père et de sa Mère pour trouver son équilibre !!! tout le reste n’est que littérature. D’accord, Geraldine. These empty tins make all this noise about weird deviations and as you say, it makes excellent literature but it’s time to [...]
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Take a look at this short news item – can you spot the anomaly, as it relates to the UK? You’re right.
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The way the media get onto someone’s case when not long ago they were celebrating that person and her lifestyle is quite sickening. Nevertheless, what the media said yesterday about Lindsay Lohan is right:
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A lot of what Can did I liked but maybe I was too young and the outer edges of their music were so bizarre and OTT that it was a “fondness for” rather than an “appreciation of” the band which many of us had.
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How many of us do not adore the idea of our own personal garden? Even something smaller than one square would be good enough and we could design it as we wished, as this lady did: Designing houses was a relief from designing boats some time ago and one I designed had bays which would [...]
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Presumably you’ve all seen Longrider’s post on teaching English? Steve Hayes has posted the one about the talking head sitting in front of the map of South America and commenting on the world cup. Steve wrote:
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Alvin Lee playing well within himself but you get an idea of what he could do: There is an old story about Jimi Hendrix being asked by an interviewer after Woodstock what it was like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. Hendrix replied that he didn’t know: “Go ask Rory Gallagher”:
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Let’s see now – Friday evening, tired after a long week. I know, a physics, chemistry and biology quiz!! 1) If you are making soaps and detergents from scratch, one of your starting ingredients will be: a) Potassium hydroxide. b) Sodium hydroxide. c) Sodium chloride. d) Calcium carbonate.
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The not-husband has done it again and racked up 300 comments this time – an amazing effort, when there is so much to do – post on Beelze-Bob, Mimi, Ted and Boris, as well as heaps more flora and fauna plus visits to Paris and good causes. It’s a wonder Jams has time for the [...]
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What more is there to say about Dearieme? Anyone who recommends the music of Concita Supervia [pity it's embedding disabled], is clearly someone out of the ordinary. What excites this student of the anomaly is fine machinery [whilst others merely drink in the young lady in question]:
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Mark Wadsworth, the UK’s premier cow attack blog, has hit the big two-oh-oh! Obviously not content with running for UKIP, telling us about Land Value Tax or ogling the girls on bikes over here, he also leaves … er … interesting answers to quizzes and somehow fits in some accountancy along the way. Sometimes Mark [...]
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Sackerson is the man to visit if you ant to understand a bit of what the economist bloggers say. Bearwatch is self-explanatory, they laughed at Noah equally so and of course, Sackerson is a bear – clear now? Quite why he wishes to run a second blog – Broad Oak Blog is a puzzle to [...]
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This one about David Hamilton, the reformed UVF alleged killer and his finding of G-d – one commenter wrote: Easy to become respectable isn’t it? That’s both right and wrong. It’s anything but respectable today to admit to being Christian but yes, as the commenter says, one wonders about the new conversion. Just like Charles [...]
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1. The iPod was named after which film? 2. Which supposedly nefarious organization is iWoz an active member of? 3. What company did Jobs form when he left Apple? 4. iWoz was cheated out of bonus money at which game player? 5. What was the Steves’ computer club called? Answers: 2001, Freemasons, NeXT, Atari, Homebrew
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Knackered – going to bed. Plan to wake sometime this evening to annoy you. By the way, excellent news: The Premier League referee and his English assistants Darren Cann and Michael Mullarkey were widely praised for their performance in previous matches. Fifa announced that a European referee would be appointed to oversee the final between [...]
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The European Parliament issued a resolution yesterday recommending that membership talks with Iceland begin as soon as possible. The parliament also welcomed the decisions of European Union leaders on June 17th to greenlight talks with Iceland.
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Regarding the political elite: Suspicions about financial irregularities have plagued Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration since he came to power in 2007 and immediately awarded himself a 140 per cent pay rise. It prompted Arnaud Montebourg MP to say: “You get the feeling that the political class is helping itself while the French people are abandoned on [...]
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From 7:30 until about 9:15?
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Dearieme’s: Mine:
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What’s yours?
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