Skipperjeru opens his account with musings on the rig he prefers. Readers should note that he is a professional sailor and his advice is well worth heeding, should you plan to go to sea. Thanks for this: Among N.O.’s several obsessions one of my favourites is ‘which Rig is best’. Having sailed several, I usually [...]
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I wouldn’t expect anyone would like this music this evening and I do try to mix it up – usually accessible but sometimes inaccessible. The following tracks, one German, one Russian, you might call militaristic but they remind me of the East German football team and the way they played – proceeding down the pitch [...]
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Various snippets, combined, make worrying reading. Lord T mentions a possible small victory for the common man but there are ways around that: Already the UK and the US sneakily and immorally, although borderline legally, tap into and record data on everyone’s browsing habits, Emails and contact details using the excuse of preventing terrorism.
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Reading about Calum Carr’s car and its various ailments reminded me of days gone by. This is a photograph of a painting of a photograph of my beloved Alfa. Sadly she died of old age in 2006. I still miss her. 1988 – 2006 R.I.P She was a fast and flighty floozy in her prime [...]
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Three sunsets
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The blogosphere is a strange place. Now why would an old post on Herve Falciani be heading the list of most-hit posts at this site at this moment? Need to look into this.
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Two scenarios, written ten years apart: Written in 2010 in Market Oracle 1. We’ve reached the brink where the next phase is hyper-inflation. This is where money can’t be printed fast enough to keep up with its devaluation. Governments will stop accepting, first and foremost, U.S. dollars for the settlement of international trade, and will [...]
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This is the opening salvo of Bill of Churchtown and welcome he is. What better way for a redblooded American to start than with a gracious account of the Battle of Brandwine. How a ford changed the course of a battle In September 1777 17,000 British and Hessian troops under the command of General Howe [...]
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Yes, I know, I know, you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for this. Janina presents: Yes ummm… well, for all you die hard star wars fans out there, there is now a motorised, life size robot that looks exactly like R2D2! It moves, it beeps hell, its even good cooling fans and led lights [...]
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As one youtuber wrote: Thanks for your appreciation. It’s left to us old guys nowadays to make sure that the pure artistry and musicality of these old recordings is broadcast to the world via youtube, in the face of the puerile pap that is dished up as an excuse for music these days. If he’s [...]
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We’ve been treated to some great posts in recent days and the five authors are thanked profusely. It’s possible the other nine will write something soon … can’t guarantee it, like … but I’m hopeful.
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Having now explored the world of LVT and assorted writings on same and having had a discussion yesterday on this topic with the perspicacious friend I’m wont to visit from time to time, then the designations Left and Right do seem valid after all, particularly when applied to land. Now I’m not saying yea or [...]
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Phew! The lengths we go to. In order to wish someone I’m close to [internationally] happy birthday, I had to set up a payment facility involving my bank [by phone], the provider [by phone - there were complications], the phone provider [non BT] and clear the way in the other country [there were restrictions with [...]
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Well, since 100 comments, JD has become a fearless blogger in art, music and the art&music of design. The concept of turning an innocent, unsuspecting reader into a fearsome blogger is one the wicked Dr. Highamstein had been milling over for some time. “No, art and music are my thing,” protested JD, “that and walking [...]
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In 1836, as a young man, Titus Salt visited a warehouse in Liverpool and stumbled across a discarded bale of Alpaca wool. It had originally been brought into the country in 1808 but no-one at the time knew what to do with it. The woollen industry was pretty basic in those days. Unlike wool, Alpaca [...]
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Following on from the Steam Plane here’s a little more on the banjo picker in the introductory video. You may not know him but there is no doubt you have heard this song he wrote which became a hit for Glen Campbell.
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What flavour soup is this? No cheating James! I make a lot of soup. Quick and simple to make, it saves time if you want a snack or something to warm you up on a cold winter’s day. Freezes well, so that it is always available when you want it. It’s the original fast food. [...]
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What do these two pictures have in common? Red telephone boxes near Covent Garden.
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Valerie Strauss writes of an innocent: “They” are officials at the University of Georgia, who took exception to a mocking e-mail sent by a student complaining about the location of available parking for scooters on campus. As reported by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the school actually invites students to send positive [...]
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On that Swedish election, courtesy of 13th Spitfire: UPDATE: The witch-hunt has begun. A group has already been formed calling for the expulsion of the SD from parliament. Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Furthermore, I suppose this post is [...]
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Savers told to stop moaning and start spending Older households can afford to suffer and should “not expect” to live off interest payments because they previously benefited from property price rises, the deputy governor of the Bank of England suggested. Shut Down the Fed (Part II) Using QE to stoke inflation on purpose crosses monetary [...]
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Rossa‘s two recent postings on the Tornado and Fred Dibnah set me thinking about the golden age of steam when everything was steam powered. (Most of our electricity is still generated by steam but that’s another story.) But first, by way of an intro, some music: When I first heard this I thought it was [...]
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Youtube is intensely annoying the way they can have the best vid with the 2nd worst sound, the best sound quality but a boring vid and the one I have to reluctantly use because it is the best they played, despite the awful, hissing recording and the way it abruptly cuts off at the end. [...]
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The Ramones appealed to me, not in their headbanging numbers but in their quintessentially American numbers, a blend of harsh guitar – almost a wall of sound – and harmonies overlaying a driving rhythm which seemed to ignore the end of sung lines and continue on by itself. It’s this blend of loud, brash and [...]
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Courtesy of Rossa, this is an interactive picture by McNaughton Fine Art, called The Forgotten Man, a commentary on the current state of our society. Please click on the pic to go to the site but please don’t copy or hotlink from here.
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The MSM, being in the business of selling papers or gaining ratings, is always going to ride the conflict-between-the-sexes bandwagon and I can’t say that the offerings from the men’s side so far are all that much to write home about . Still, if men don’t write articles praising themselves, they can’t expect that women [...]
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Two completely separate articles and not connecting them in any way whatsoever, guv: 1. Google CEO says change your name for privacy Every week in the UK there reports of data losses from government databases, banks, corporate bodies and public services resulting over the past few years of literally hundreds of thousands of personal details [...]
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This post has been motivated by some concerns yesterday. Take three bloggers – Iain Dale, Mark Wadworth and Ian Parker-Joseph. Iain does cover the narrow world of party politics awfully well. However, it is true that his is the place to be seen, a bit like Ascot and it’s an instant thing, in that one [...]
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