Still having a lot of trouble over comments. Some people have reported that when they try to comment, it gives them “comments are closed”. I just got this myself when checking a post in preview. And yet, if you expand the pic, you’ll see my current settings. If any of you care to comment on [...]
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Cathedral Buildings in Newcastle upon Tyne is an office block dating from 1901. This is the rear entrance which faces onto St. Nicholas’ Churchyard. Above this door and its surrounding ‘exuberant’ pink and white plasterwork is a large circular window. Sitting on the keystone over the window is a strange looking creature.
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Dearieme prefaced the piece below with: “Try dancing to this, matey.” Some of the comments were also brilliant: # Holy Crap it’s Dracula in the right corner bottom. And he’s not amused.
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Not being an artist, I can’t explain why the sail plan of a yacht which a child would draw is so ugly, with its tall, ungainly mast and since the days of masthead bermudan sloops, it’s got even uglier. Just why the gaffsail, which you’ll see in these pics, is so much more beautiful – [...]
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What does one do when confronted with a sinking revelation that the very people you live and work with, sup with and join in recreation with, number amongst them those who are anything but what you imagined them to be? I grew up and received my education as a WASP, not only that but my [...]
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Just a quick post apologizing on behalf of my anti-spam, which used to drive Xxxl crazy. The thing is, for every legit comment it mistakenly spams, it gets 100 right and I’m grateful it catches all of those. Yesterday, by turning comments to moderation, a most needed step in retrospect, if you could see the [...]
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This year, I’m largely using last year’s post, plus one or two items from previous Hallowe’ens: Good people, my only advice today is not to venture out this evening, when all the spirits of evil are abroad and whatever you do today or in the next two days, don’t go round the church widdershins and [...]
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OK, open for business again and it was a very mixed day. When I got to the station, the train before and the two after my train were running fine. My train was cancelled. A girl on the platform was mightily p***ed as well and I asked her if she was going to be late [...]
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Calum Carr wrote, not so long ago: I have noticed that blogging, in general, is in a dip – at least those blogs I read. There are far fewer posts. It’s as though blogging has had its day as a mass medium and we are in a phase where numbers drop and only those hardy [...]
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In 1651 publisher John Playford produced The English Dancing Master, a work that included 105 tunes and the dance step notation to perform them. It proved so popular that new editions continued to be produced by his son Henry after his death with over 1,000 tunes total. The music is pleasing to listen to and [...]
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_________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found here.
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With JD having gone a bit quiet of late, I wrote to ask him if he was OK. When his reply came, did I show sympathy? Well yes, a bit but the raving journo in me couldn’t resist asking him to turn it into a blogpost so, after some cajoling, here it is below [chuckles [...]
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Some good ones here.
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Quiz question 1: What have Lillian Gish and James MacArthur in common? Answer: She was his godmother. Question 2: What have Ben Hecht, Harpo Marx, Robert Benchley, Beatrice Lillie, John Barrymore, and John Steinbeck in common with James MacArthur? Answer: They were guests at his family home. Question 3: Who is JamesMacArthur? Answer: He’s Danno. [...]
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[Longish] abstract The comment by one reader: “If violent video games,films and books turned kiddies into murderers, far more of the lil’ blighters would be doing it given nearly ALL kids are fed a steady stream of this pap.” … illustrates one of the errors in an error strewn exercise on both sides of the [...]
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Part 1 was an introduction and concerned the rules of debate. Entertainment, including music From the PTC§: In a Time Magazine Poll [from 03.20.05], 53 percent of respondents said that they think the FCC should place stricter controls on broadcast-channel shows depicting sex and violence. 68 percent believe the entertainment industry has lost touch with [...]
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Part 2 can be found here. Drug abuse Whichever way we turn, it’s easy to establish that things are worse now than they were. For example, on amphetamines: First synthesized in 1887, the stimulant amphetamine became popular in 1920s in the medical community, where it was used for raising blood pressure, enlarging the nasal passages, [...]
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Part 3 is here. Charlotte Church before Adults If I’ve concentrated on kids in this post, forgive me because it breaks my heart what’s happening to them. But older people are also affected by this culture which seems to be spreading, like cancer, throughout the world, western and non-western. Why do you think so many [...]
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Final 3. I expect to see some illuminating comments on my return. What are these and what would you use them for? Answers on a postcard please to Useless Implement Competition, Blue Peter, PO Box 123, Television Centre…
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Can you sing this high? Can you kiss this well? Are you responsible? By the way, Calum got all Dusty yesterday.
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Imagine that skirt caught in those spokes. That would be awful.
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When one sees something like Cameron must stand his ground with the EU, done as an editorial by a major daily, then one despairs. Just what would motivate a person to be so wide of the mark that he thinks that: a. Cameron is any position to stand on any fast eroding ground and b. [...]
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Paris is not my favourite city but it cannot be denied that it is very picturesque. Start with a familiar sight. There must be thousands of photographs of this building with the cupola in the background so, like a boring tourist, I snapped away. And the tourist trap of Place du Tertre where the production [...]
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Last single one for this week. As I’m about to go away for 5 days, I have put the last 3 together into one final attempt to catch someone out somewhere … fat chance with you lot! James will post it at some point in time. So what”s this? And what does it go with? [...]
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Nice: Naughty:
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Those high heels are designed for safer biking, of course.
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Honda – one of your all-round best choices, either side of the pond This is drawn from different sources for either the 2000-2010 time frame or for 2010 [click links to find out more]. It applies to the UK and Canada/U.S.A. Obviously, cost, comfort, handling, design, appointments, fuel economy, marque and purpose are also vital [...]
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In a disgraceful act of piracy, I have stolen the images below from David Farrer’s Scottish Clouds:
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Iceland Review is so unevenly written that you need to be patient with it. Quite often, little gems appear, this time without an author [seemingly]. I reprint in whole from the IR site: In Icelandic Hekla is the word for a short hooded cloak which may relate to the frequent cloud cover on the summit. [...]
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What’s wrong in this photo? [See comments.] David Farrer has an interesting soundbite from Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett who explains how Scotland has been “subsidizing” the rest of the UK via revenue, which should have been paid to Scotland, actually going south. His solution is that if Scotland broke free of the UK tax regimes [...]
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