There’s this guy who really loves tractors. I mean loves them. He has pictures of tractors on his walls, he has model tractors on his shelf. There are tractor blueprints on the coffee table, the works. So, one day, the tractor fair comes to town and he thinks to himself “Okay, this is the year [...]
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Ian Parker-Joseph makes reference to the Lima Declaration in youtube form and this will be returned to further down, in printed form. The simple fact of UK manufacturing decline has quite a few people in denial and a recurring theme these days [covered in another blogpost coming up] is that those who are qualified in [...]
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I thought it was interesting that, as Wiki states: “Today, the custom is now only practised in a single English school – Loughborough High School (the oldest all-girl school in England, founded in 1850). Ten tableaux are performed each year at the school carol service: including the depiction of an all-grey engraving (in which the [...]
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My secret Russian contact, Russ who has occasionally commented at this site and feeds me some of the techie stuff, has done it again. This time, it’s the notion of creating a line between a satellite and a point on earth and sending up materials. Here’s the theory: The EU has latched on to this [...]
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By now you’ve all probably read James Delingpole’s piece on the floods in Queensland and how they could well have been prevented. His correspondent blames the Greens and is not wrong in that but as usual, they both miss the main point – it is government policy based on the Greens which is the issue [...]
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One of the unsung talents that didn’t make it big globally, they were quite eccentric and theatrical but kept pumping out numbers which still stand up today, once you can come to terms with them:
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It’s pretty easy to see the afficianados in comments and when bond 23 was finally announced, there were some good comments. Here are some:
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Last February, the warning signs were spelt out:
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This one’s not anything like the Italian girl who drove me round in an SUV – an excellent driver and parker:
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It’s for everyone, not just the body beautifuls. Don’t ever be too shy to start. There are many tips here on how to stick to your fitness plan. Some I agree with but the only ways I can stick to it include:
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The America’s Cup is, historically, sailing’s premier event and what a history it has. The excitement began in 1983, when Australia’s winged keel boat broke the American 132 year stranglehold on the event, including multiple challenges by Sir Thomas Lipton and many others.
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Such a pity about the sound quality in the vid because they were quite a group live:
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New series! There are 17 of them and sadly, my resolution only to put up photos of women over 30 was not going to be possible to fulfil – the shots are just not there. However, there are a few such august beings coming up in the next few days.
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Victoria also appears to be in the firing line for floods: As Queenslanders battle a deadly flood disaster, Victorians are being warned to brace for possible flash floods in coming days. The State Emergency Service (SES) says up to 150 millimetres of rain is likely to fall over the next three days.
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So, what’s with the bird, fish and other deaths?
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Even in Portman’s own words: “I did feel very elegant suddenly,” Portman tells the magazine. “I mean, you can’t possibly measure up to Audrey Hepburn; there’s no comparison. But the elegance that she exuded was transmitted to the dress, you know, the feeling, the emotion of it.” That’s a remarkably self-deprecating remark and perhaps a [...]
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That header’s a line once used in an Australian comedy skit [can't remember the details]. In the second part of the tome I keep referring to [2006], I was going to change this part of the story below because it was a bit corny, only put in to serve as a backdrop for the marsupial [...]
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That old chestnut, the differences between English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh folk occurred to me today after listening to Calum. I tried an explanation and failed – these people also try it. Comments range from English folk music getting Scottish the further north ye go, the Welsh not known for it – although the male [...]
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First, what is going down: We witnessed a massive withdrawal of silver unprecedented in the history of the comex. First there was a smallish 6507 oz of silver deposited to two customers, one being 497 oz and the other 6010 oz). But just look at the huge withdrawals: Four customers (not dealers) withdrew a total [...]
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Sackerson points out that Jefferson is often misquoted and that what he said years later, from Monticello, was just as relevant, even more so, than if he’d said it 40 years earlier. He concludes the first part of his letter to Sam Kercheval, saying: The system has worked well so far not because of the [...]
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Not sure how possible this would be now: A young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the priest beside her, ‘Father, may I ask a favor?’ ‘Of course child. What can I do for you?’
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McTavish has dropped in on his old friend, Armstrong, and after an hour’s chat, allows he must be going … “Och,”says Armstrong, “I have forgotten my manners … now before ye go off, ye’ll be havin’ a wee dram with me, won’t you?”
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Wolfie:
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The Coalition of the Artistically Ignorant, part of the Confederacy of the Great Unwashed, includes many whose life path, sadly, precluded artistic and musical grounding. One can’t do everything and my path had been a weird combination of sport, literature and drama. The danger in artistic ignorance has been pointed out by Warren Zevon :
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Anonymous This article quotes a U.S. district judge: When the RTC first approached the Court with its ex parte request for the seizure warrant and Temporary Restraining Order, the dispute was presented as a straight-forward one under copyright and trade secret law. However, the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation of RTC in [...]
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Shakespeare’s wife Your [not so] humbler blogger doesn’t particularly like the [allegedly] herpes-ravaged Katie Holmes and though her legs [which are better than mine, it must be admitted] should possibly not have seen the light of day, let alone be highlighted and though the whole Cruise-Holmes-Suri thing is an utter bore, nevertheless:
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As one reviewer points out: Seldom in a Rendell book do you meet characters who are kind and altruistic. The author has made a career of studying the dark and decayed roots of emotionally disturbed people; no one does it better. She also examines family relationships in all of their tortured complexity, and poignantly observes [...]
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Arthur, elder brother of Henry, on the morning after his wedding night, told his gentleman-servants to bring him some wine. “For I have been this night in Spain,” he said, “and I found it thirsty work.” A wee jolliness:
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Just how virulent is it? Quite, it seems. Ouest France reports: Nantes Jules Verne pool remains closed. There was nothing to suspect the presence of Legionella at an abnormally high rate. The latest tests were normal in July 2009. It can mean a thousand times higher than normal, said a source familiar with the matter. [...]
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If you were to listen to the feminists or look at the Muslims, you’d think marriage was an institution designed to oppress women, instead of what it is – an institution to protect women and ensure a stable base for a family, the building block of any still functioning society. So an article about a [...]
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