nourishing obscurity

Not being one overly given to revisionism, especially of the PC kind or of the kind which purports to revert to an earlier time, e.g. saying Boudicca instead of Boadicea, nevertheless, it does seem that we have an issue here with New Year. Also, not wishing to get too pagan about it but what does [...]

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The NourObscur blogrolls have been revamped today and severely culled. This blog uses a separate site for blogrolls,  as Bryan Appleyard used to and it is so critical to my daily doings – sometimes I visit eight or nine times a day or even more – that they have to be kept in order. They [...]

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After a long day hunting all you need is to stretch out and relaxxxx…

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JD hardly needs any introduction – you can go to the sidebar for that and click on his posts at Nourishing Obscurity. You can follow the Christmas Fayre, for which he is Kapellmeister or perhaps you’d care to tango, with a jar in one hand and a woman in the other. Spain is the other [...]

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It’s been so long since this blog last visited Iceland and today’s rivetting story is presented by my friend Eyglo: According to fruit importer Bananar, Red Delicious apples, which are imported from the US, Argentina or France depending on the season, are the most popular apples in Iceland and have been for many years. However, [...]

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2010 – the year for wild weather, turning global warming on its head or reinforcing it?  Just a few incidents which punctuated the year: First a review:

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Whether Orson Welles took his idea from this or not, H.L. Mencken’s Great Bathtub Hoax was meant to show the gullibility of the great reading public. He concocted an anniversary and castigated all and sundry for failing to observe it:

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As promised – “Chopper” Chopin: From 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French writer George Sand. For most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39. Chopin initially felt an aversion to Sand. He declared to Ferdinand Hiller: “What a [...]

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It was Maxim Gorky who referred to Russia as a troika hurtling down a snow-covered path. “Kuda?” he asks Russia.  [To where are you going?] She [Russia] does not answer.  She does not know.  She only knows she must get there and get there fast.

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Hang on a minute – the two leading yachts in the Sydney to Hobart radioed in when they passed a point they were required to but the race committee didn’t like the way they did it, so the race committee, in a fit of pique, decided to protest to the international jury:

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Word verification is so much fun to use when you’re zooming around the blogs. Just to be able to spend your reading time typing in individual letters, when multiplied by the factor of your blogroll, is a whole lot of joy. But there’s a serious side too – did you realize that captcha can often [...]

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The important thing is whatever’s at hand.

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First a BCC survey: Of the 450 businesses surveyed, 45 per cent said they would give their staff a pay rise, while 49 per cent intended to freeze salaries and 6 per cent said they planned to reduce wages.  18 per cent said they would delay investment plans as a result, but only 13 per [...]

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1.  Arthur Morris 2.  Matthew Hayden 3.  Neil Harvey 4.  Ian Chappell [captain] 5.  Alan Border 6.  Keith Miller [vice captain] 7.  Adam Gilchrist 8.  Ray Lindwall 9.  Shane Warne 10.  Glenn McGrath 11.  Dennis Lillee ____________________ 12.  Jeff Thompson ____________________ Reserves – Greg Chappell, Terry Alderman, Richie Benaud , coach – Bobby Simpson ____________________ They should [...]

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1.  Geoff Boycott 2.  Graham Gooch 3.  David Gower 4.  Ken Barrington 5.  Peter May [captain - there's no one else] 6.  Ian Botham 7.  Alan Knott 8.  Andrew Flintoff 9.  Jim Laker 10.  John Snow 11.  Fred Trueman ____________________ 12.  Derek Underwood [or Flintoff, depending on the pitch]

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