Let’s look at the story first of all, thanks Wiggia: First published in the DT and then trailed on Guido, this classic PC rhetoric from Radstocks Labour council leader is as good as it gets, they will however be flying the gay lesbian alliance rainbow flag alongside the Union one which I’m sure will go [...]
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Came up in conversation the other day, do you remember Sounds Incorporated, well I had fond memories of seeing them live at the Enfield Assembly Rooms with Johnny Kidd and the Pirates complete with sword throwing. Sounds Inc were the favored backing group for many touring American stars inc Belinda Lee and Little Richard amongst [...]
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The man in the advert falls into the category of a smug self satisfied clever dick, and I loath the fact that an industry has been created for him and others on the back of what is basically bad design. So I’m not as good as him in putting together flat pack furniture, that’s true [...]
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I have never quite got the modern interpretation of a professional sportsperson re their earning power outside of actual competition. I do not mean the ability to endorse products open supermarkets or run training weekends, no what I don’t get is the increasing payment of athletes to simply turn up. Before anyone thinks I’m being [...]
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Not my usual stuff but I was incensed – the more I delved the worse it got. Above is all that is wrong in one picture of the organisation she headed, Dame Jo Williams saying ‘sorry’ for suggesting a whistleblower had mental health problems at select committee hearing, though what good that did is still [...]
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The picture [right, courtesy of the DM] illustrates the extent to which the Hi Vis jacket has become a fail safe for all and sundry who wish to … er … well … remain safe ! The rider is on a stationary exercise bike but the full regalia is obviously necessary. For many years it [...]
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Quote from Bernard Jenkins MP: If we’re going to avoid an Italian situation where comedians start getting elected then the whole British political establishment has got to be forced to engage much more actively with what ordinary people are feeling” He fails to realise that for many of us the HsoP are already stuffed with [...]
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The first photo is one I took of a local church in Essex many years ago: The second is St Peters after the Pope resigned – you possibly saw it: Is someone trying to tell us something ?
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James Beppe Grillo of the five star movement in Italy has been stirring things up in Italian politics, what I particularly like were his mass meetings called “vaffanculo days” (off days). When can we start having our own? Further reading. Update on developments today. ……….. [JH - it was possibly too late to run this [...]
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Anyone who read my recent piece on moving will have noticed my surprise and dismay nay anger at the amount of information required by all bodies during the moving process much of which should be none of their business but is extracted normally under the guise of preventing money laundering, despite the fact that nearly [...]
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Suppose you saw this [seen in Eastleigh] at The Slog:
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The first rumblings as to which councils may or may not put up their council tax this coming year have brought a response from Eric Pickles stating that £450 million extra is available to those councils that freeze their tax again this year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9871824/Defiant-councils-planning-tax-rises.html All seems quite fair in a time of restraint and static [...]
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Courtesy Wiggia: Regarding this noble “Lord”, what happened about the second case he faced over spending in the region of £260,000 of taxpayers money by using a council gifted credit card? On a technicality he has managed to claim more taxpayers’ money for wrongful arrest and whilst the law is obliged, as the case has [...]
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In the early sixties I had two friends who raced motorcycles; one of them raced a machine identical to this one; there were only two of them raced in the UK; the other one was air cooled; they are rare The make please, the cc and anything unusual please and NO Googling.
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I remember following a link to Idler magazine’s [now moribund] Crap Towns series. As I leafed through, looking for Haverhill in Suffolk – yes I know there are far worse places – it wasn’t on the list but still thoroughly deserves to be there. How do I know? Well we lived in a small village [...]
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The last twelve months has seen a few changes in both wine being retailed and price, some of it more significant than others. On a purely personal note it is becoming increasingly difficult, nay impossible, to find those award winning bargains at or around the five pound a bottle mark, those gold medal winning bargain [...]
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Very evocative of those war and post war times, the last of the Andrews Sisters has died, severing another link with that era.
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As has been mentioned, I have just moved house. Prior to this move, I was supposed to have a haircut but the appalling weather put a stop to that as I couldn’t get out of the drive let alone the 7 miles to the hairdressers (the young lady who used to do my hair had [...]
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I have been otherwise engaged so my late response to the item by James on the Armstrong saga was a bit muddled, his link to the remarks by Federer on Armstrong tainting all sport is to be taken with a pinch of salt as (repeated often. I have said before no other sport has the [...]
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As the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month approaches again and our PM is busy making arrangements for the 100th anniversary of the Great War, just how does the current and not current generation respond to this huge slice of history and the consequences thereof?
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There have been a few notable omissions in my pieces on vineyards – the most obvious being New Zealand and South Africa. This was deliberate, as both countries are quite limited in their offerings on the UK market – in the case of NZ with around a 40% of production Sauvignon Blanc and the rest [...]
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Bordeaux is the name everyone knows even if their interest in wine is zero, also the home to the greatest names in wine. The Chateaus that top the list of desirability year after year, those great names Lafitte, Mouton, Margaux, Latour, Haut – Brion, Cheval Blanc, Petrus, Ausone and so the list goes on – [...]
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It was whilst reading a piece on the Slog regarding the Olympic legacy or lack of it, that I was reminded in one of the comments of a heated conversation I had after the Olympics with my brother who was also a track cyclist many years ago – this is not about cycling it is [...]
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This the longest of the rivers of France sources in the Cevennes and pours out into the sea at St Nazaire into the Bay of Biscay. In its 629 miles, it also passes through several wine regions from Sancerre in the east to Muscadet in the west and also manages to pass a reputed 1000 [...]
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Upon my recent return from my French trip I phoned down to London to see how my ageing mother was getting on. The phone was answered by my youngest nephew who was at my mother’s house, having brought in some shopping for her. After confirming all was well he asked me how the holiday went [...]
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This vast area of vines spreads from the east in the Costieres de Nimes across west to past Carcassonne to the Limoux region and south to the Spanish border at Banyuls. The region is France’s oldest wine growing area. Twenty to thirty years ago, this area represented itself as part of the ‘wine lake’ and [...]
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I have just returned from a slow meander through the Loire, staying at a variety of Hotels etc whilst trying to find elusive vineyards, much to the chagrin of “she who must be obeyed” who enjoys sipping the stuff but doesn’t really enjoy the winery ‘bit’. What I wanted to comment on was the hand [...]
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The Rhône wine growing region can be split, as in Burgundy, into two distinct areas. In the northern sector we have the Cote Rotie , Condrieu and Hermitage and the southern sector contains Chateauneuf-du-Pape and its sub regions including Gigondas Vacqueyras Muscat de Beaumes -de-Venise and lesser areas as Cotes de Luberon and Cotes de [...]
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