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Food

April 27th 2009

Whilst looking a a brilliant post about “what people search for and found my blog” , and thought I should have a go. Instructions, copy, paste, and bold the things you’ve eaten (and maybe add some comments) Venison: Lots, and it’s one of my favorites. Nettle Tea: No and I too have no urge. Huevos rancheros: [...]

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The big eye in the sky

April 27th 2009

So, another day, another story about people wanting to monitor everything you look at on the Internet.  What a surprise.  I imagine that when books became popular people started monitoring what people read, they certainly started banning books. When radio came of age people definitely wanted to monitor radio transmissions, and still do.  Television also.  The problem [...]

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Kitchen Gadgets

April 26th 2009

I’m not really a gadget fan.  I use devices every day, but I’m not a man to get excited about about my megabytes of RAMsomething has, or quite how many megapixels have been crammed into anything.  I’ve not got an iPhone, or an iPod for that matter, I have no intension of spending money on [...]

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Bollocks to it all

April 22nd 2009

I really must stop swearing as much, it does me no favours at all in the long run, the words fall out of my mouth and drop onto the world like so much cold custard.  Nobody is shocked, rarely am I ever pulled up for it (very occasionally) and all in all I imagine I have [...]

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Book names missing a letter

April 10th 2009

I hear something on Radio4 the other day that made me laugh, how your book name meaning change when you miss the last letter off.  Pure genius.  So I fired up my LibraryThing account and ran through knocking off the last letter to create… The Righteous Me IS HARRY ON THE BOA No Country For [...]

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Deaths in Buffy

April 8th 2009

Its funny what makes you think about things isn’t it.  Despite all the crap in the last few months, it’s Buffy which makes me think. Anya – Dies completely unnoticed in the chaos of the last series and the world just moves on around her.  It’s only when the dust settles that Zander realises she’s [...]

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