Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Barcelona were awesome last night but they still couldn’t score against Man Utd. who were even better - and that was without Rooney!  How on earth are we going to avoid a pasting on Saturday when Rooney is back in the team?

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I must be getting more broad-minded and tolerant or something.  A few years back I would have gladly filled my ears with molten lead to avoid listening to an entire Celine Dion concert, but the other night that is exactly what I did.1
Watch the concert. Not fill my ears with molten lead [↩]

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I hate having to correct anything, but Its obvious that I really must retract something I said yesterday.

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When I saw the Tory ‘newsletter’ that came to our house today, my first reaction was to think that they are getting a bit worried by Ian Irvine’s campaign, and in particular the letter going out with his election address in which our erstwhile Tory and Lib Dem councillor, Marcella Head, urges her supporters to [...]

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This evening I was out putting some more election addresses through doors and staggered home full of complaints, which will be familiar to anyone even slightly active in politics.  I had a bit of an election rant when I got in, although it was wasted on the cat.

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We had a trip to Hastings today.  Frankie was moving into his first flat of his own, a studio in St. Leonards.  Its one of those imposing Georgian (I think) buildings around Warrior Square: very handy for shops, the beach and the railway station but a bugger for parking, especially in good weather.   Jayne has [...]

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I still don’t know whether to be impressed or a bit scared by today’s article about gene mapping.  I can remember hearing about the Human Genome Project when it started, and even before then when it was being talked about.  Back then it sounded like one of those impossible tasks, or at best something that [...]

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I half-watched the London election programme on ITV tonight; the one with Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and Brian Paddick on.   I’m not sure whether the audience had been packed with partisan supporters of all three candidates or that there is just a lot of genuine public interest in the election, or a bit of both, [...]

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I saw this advert for Berocca the other day and thought it looked familiar. I do hope the ad agency has rewarded OK Go handsomely for shamelessly ripping off their idea…

For comparison, here is the far superior original which was probably done for a fraction of the cost.

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Two free musical events of differing scales are on the horizon.
First there is the Love Music Hate Racism carnival on April 27th.  Its well-publicised and guaranteed to be big and fun.  On a smaller scale is the free ‘Summer in the Greenhouse’ festival at Filthy McNasty’s in Islington on May 24th

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