nourishing obscurity

I never knew my grandmother, on my mother’s side, all that well.   I was still a kid when one of the sisters died, the others went their separate ways and somehow, my grandmother came to live with us. The fighting between my mother and father must have been horrendous behind the scenes – I never [...]

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There was a Google ad came up in the right sidebar and you see part of it to the left here. Do I have what it takes to score a record deal?  Now let me see: 1.  Utterly devoid of talent – check. 2.  Opinionated, with no life experience to back it up – first [...]

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It still shocks the mind of a child:

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New to me anyway.  Searching for something on YouTube, I came across these people and promptly forgot what I was looking for.  They’re called Crooked Still and these two videos are from the Shetland Folk Festival 2007:

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If the government would start the deportations, the problem would very quickly resolve itself.  Do these people wish to live and work in our land or do they not? Two Muslim councillors were under fire today after they refused to take part in a standing ovation to honour a Marine who won the George Cross.  [...]

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part 1 is here part 2 is here Continuing the examination of the significance of Ø in the formation of the universe- It is not just the human body which grows out of Ø The Golden Section is evident in plants as can be seen in this graphic representation of the arrangement of seeds in [...]

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Johnathan Pearce has a good one from yesterday: “OK, for years, people who claim to be my intellectual betters on foreign policy (and pretty much everything else), and particularly about the Middle East, have been telling me that the root cause of the problems in the Middle East is the “occupation” of disputed territories in [...]

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The notion that there are two parties, nominally different, one trying to sell our country out to foreign powers and the other trying to enslave workers, that these two dominate parliament and occasionally change places on the benches in a farce called a general election – that’s a ludicrous basis for running a country. The [...]

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Was it my dear friend Alara who said this blog  often posts “pictures of women that sometimes verge on soft porn”? Liz Hurley obviously puts a lot of work into looking “hot”.  She wants to be noticed, she’s a media wh aggregator.  Good luck to her and to be publicly praised by the New Zealand [...]

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The Flying Dutchman Stories of cursed ships have always been about, one of the most famous being this lady: This ship always seemed to have experienced bad luck, no matter where she went or who her passengers were. Even when the ship was known as the Amazon, after she was launched in 1860, she was [...]

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Coming soon: Compulsory water meters for all… and you’ll pay £200 installation price Well, I actually have one and it measures my water quite accurately but I think this is a different type, to get the £200 out of me.  Now, a question:

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Meanwhile, in France: L’État prépare 40 millions de permis électroniques A European directive of 21 December 2006 obliges France, like all EU countries to be ready to publish its first digital license from the month of January 2013.  According to draconian specifications, the Directorate of Modernization of territorial action entrusted to the Prefect Jean Benoit [...]

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