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19/06/10
My mate Brian uncovered this copy of the OSS
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Adobe/PDF, 2.2MB) on the Web. It's a guide to doing low level sabotage in occupied Europe during World War II and looking at the scan of the cover it does look genuine. read more ...
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28/05/10
This hilarious exchange was on BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme this morning. It's Evan Davies talking to
Dr Ian MacDonald, a biological oceanographer at Florida State University. It had us both giggling so I extracted the clip from iPlayer later. Enjoy. read more ...
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28/04/10
I was asked by someone yesterday what my favourite toy was when I was a child (it wasn't an idle question, it was work related) and so I sent them a photo. So let me introduce you all to Bobby. He was my first Christmas present so he was 49 years old last Christmas. I think he's a Chad Valley bear but I'm not 100% certain.
Up until the age of about ten when I blew the candles out on my birthday cake and made a wish I always wished he could talk. Sadly he lost his eyes at some point and he's a bit threadbare in places but he's not in bad condition for his age.
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27/04/10
I've tried hard to stay out of local politics of late but we've got a district council election coming up this May and the latest Tory leaflets leave me feeling it's time that I reacted publicly to what's been said. read more ...
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26/04/10
This is the view from the seventh, and top, floor of Addenbrooke's hospital public car park. The only level where we could find a parking space this afternoon. That's the Gog Magog hills in the distance but lots of concrete between them and us.
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18/04/10
I've been having a bit of a Spring clean/life laundry blitz over the last couple of weeks and this morning, while shredding old documents, I came across this, my first Nat West bank statement which is almost thirty years old: read more ...
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11/04/10
Long time readers of my wibblings here know that we don't have a TV licence and haven't since before we moved here, something which has even got me into the New York Times in the past. read more ...
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10/04/10
... and my pretzls get eaten, along with lots more from other bakers, pigs' knees, salads, sausages and roast chicken, sliced radish, gateau and lots more besides. Oh, and I think we might have drunk some bier too.
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04/04/10
I've just finished Iain Banks' Canal Dreams. I've not read that much Banks in recent years. I read one of his Culture SciFi books a while ago ... read more ...
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30/03/10
Mark Kermode is one of my favourite people and his views on 3-D cinema (he thinks it's a con, largely being deployed to try to fight film piracy rather than because it makes films any better) are widely known - to the point where he could bore for England on it. read more ...
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