Romantic atmosphere – one side of the restaurant, there is a man dining alone. He notices, over the other side, a pretty girl, also dining alone. She picks up a stick of bread and places it against her lips. He watches with interest. She nibbles the end. He watches with more interest. She starts to [...]
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Each list below is associated with a class or group – which? 1. Georgina Rozario, Katherine Merchant, La Toya Mason, Rachael Burford and Emily Scarratt;
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market day……
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The most damaging aspect of “all must have prizes” is the massive social dislocation which costs billions, in order to force an outcome which simply is not logical.
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Well it is still cold here in the frozen north and we will be needing our personalised central heating for a wee while yet. With the blogchef on strike I need emergency sustenance so…. A couple of large parsnips, some of those big flat breakfast mushrooms, add a thumb sized chunk of fresh root ginger; [...]
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Via American author and N.O. reader Rick Hendricks – Quentin Letts. Rick says: “I saw this and thought it represented another blow to freedom”: The political-media elite of Britain is obsessed with race (and, to a lesser degree, with sexual orientation and ‘gender balance’, which sounds like a high-wire skill and in some respects is).
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I first realized that the English have a sense of humour about 11 months ago, when I was at Euston Station. I was going home to Ireland by train, which is rather hard to do because there’s a bit of water in the middle but it was the Lourdes Express, so we were all right [...]
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In the fallout over Rebecca Black and that song, Chuckles presents: Good to see the Japanese can retain their sense of humour.
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Spanish Armada Reprinted whole – John Cleese, via Tom Cunnif through JD: The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not [...]
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Good to see Chuckles back and firing:
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The toxic Diana Fountain – the wrong water The current tales of British incompetence puzzle and bewilder many in the country, especially those of a more leftish bent – our ideological correctness in Britain seems to be going awfully wrong.
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A bit later than nine, I know but I just got in and how much of the evening can be posted on I’m still deciding. Anyway, I picked up a copy of The Essential Dave Allen and had to put it away by morning tea as I was laughing too much and not doing my [...]
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Harley truck
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By now you’ve probably seen Longrider‘s suggestion about “multi-author blogs”. Further to Autonomous Mind possibly going into semi-retirement and suggesting the possibility of guest posting on other sites, I left an offer on the table. Tom Paine made a pertinent point on that discussion; that multi author blogs may well be the way forward. If [...]
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The cynics among you might feel that “teaching English” is just a cover story for my dealings with my senorita and yet I am actually doing that [truly, ruly] and in shaking out the cobwebs and pulling out the old material to teach and with a couple of foreigners having read my site of late, [...]
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So here it is – the song millions around the world are saying is the worst song ever written and the singer’s none too prepossessing either. A clue is in the lyrics: Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, today is Friday, Friday (Partyin’), tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards. Rivetting: I made it through 9 seconds. [...]
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burro taxis- and something similar but far more comfortable- _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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There are honest films and novels, which posit an idea or explore the breaking down of a taboo and while the fire is burning, it’s fair that this is seen as a viable pursuit, yet the seeds of doom have been planted, as they would be in real life and the result is a tragedy, [...]
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Who are these people? And why are they contracted by the DWP to duplicate the work of GPs? A friend who is currently in receipt of sickness benefit received a letter from Atos Healthcare telling him to attend one of their health centres for a medical assessment; this to decide whether he is fit for [...]
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And finally, here it is: US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is “quite open” to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund. Shocked? Why shocked? Anyone who knows of Them sees this as par for the course, simply the [...]
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Human life begins on the far side of despair. [Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943]
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Both male and female are susceptible to the admiration of multiple members of the opposite sex but only women turn it into a heartrending melodrama, as in the song above, written by a man and intended for a man to sing but taken, quite naturally, by a woman.
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In the yachting world, the ketch is the most mild-mannered, best balanced, most forgiving and yet one of the prettiest craft going. If I were travelling the world by small boat, this would be the boat of choice.
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Eleven o’clock is soon enough …
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Autonomous Mind has joined the ranks of those finding it difficult to blog now. I’m also feeling the pressure and yet I don’t see any government interference in this or interference from any other external source. It could be that, with Labour gone and not yet reappearing, much of the stuffing has been knocked out [...]
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Early Handel, early Nuria:
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