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Entries from October 31st, 2008

Somewhere Here On Earth

October 31st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Life

I don’t really do quizzes on this site, but when I saw this photo I had to find out whether anybody would have any idea where it is/was. So… any guesses as to the location of this fort?  Full brownie points for the exact location, but I’ll be impressed if anybody gets the town/city or […]

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The Impossible Dream

October 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Politics

Did I miss a meeting or something?  I received a letter from the Labour party today.  Nothing unusual about that: once you get on those mailing lists you can look forward to a lifetime of emails and as a parliamentary candidate you get even more.  I was expecting that.  What I was not expecting, as […]

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Build It Up, Tear It Down

October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Build It Up, Tear It Down · Technology

Last week I went a little outside my comfort zone when selecting products from Amazon’s Vine programme to review and chose a software package – something called WebSite X5 which is, not surprisingly, a website creation package.   This site runs under WordPress so there is no point using another package here, but I do have […]

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Cat Scratch Fever

October 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Cat Scratch Fever · Life, Technology

The other day we had another merry-go-round with mobile phones.  Jane is now back with her original white one and I now have the black one that was originally Chrystal’s and then Jayne’s. The reason was that the black phone was not ringing and Jayne kept missing calls.  She figured that a non-ringing phone was […]

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Run To The Hills

October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology

This evening I was looking at a PDF copy of a brochure for the Canon EOS 450D camera, which looks like a tasty piece of kit. I found pages eight and nine a little worrying.

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Seek And Destroy

October 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Seek And Destroy · Technology

Charlie has been asking me to look at his computer for a few days now, but always picks the wrong time to ask – like after midnight, or when the football is on TV.  Today he caught me at a better time so I went to see what the matter was.

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Sailing On The Seven Seas

October 26th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics

I have been to Corfu on holiday a total of four times.  I would happily go back again, in fact Jayne and I have thought it would be a decent place to retire to.  Here is a little secret about the place that I will happily pass on to the likes of Osborne and Mandelson: […]

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Hurry Up Harry

October 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hurry Up Harry · Life

I can’t wait until the morning.  I am really looking forward to telling Jayne who her club have got as a new manager.  When Harry Redknapp was in charge at West Ham she always used to laugh at him so she is not going to take it well.  Could be a good move for Spurs […]

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Weather With You

October 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Weather With You · Jane

I don’t know if Skuds has noticed this but whenever I am involved in a Friends of the Earth day of action, as I was today, the weather is always awful.  In April, when we were campaigning on including aviation and shipping emissions in the UK targets, it snowed; in the summer, when we were […]

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Picture This

October 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Picture This · Life

I enjoy taking photographs and appreciate well-composed photos that other people have taken, but very rarely do I find myself going “wow” at a photograph as much I did with the photo by Simon Norfolk in today’s Guardian. It really does look like a painting. As it was taken with one of those large photographic […]

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