Feb

6

Yellow tulip

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Yellow tulip

Originally uploaded by longwayround.

So, yesterday evening I thought to myself that I hadn’t taken any new pictures for Flickr lately. A combination of dull weather and work (or is that dull work and weather) kind of got in the way.
I was sat next to […]

Dec

24

Greetings

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Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious / secular persuasions […]

Dec

20

Virgin Digital music quiz

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We had some fun today at work attempting Virgin Digital’s music quiz. I have not been able to find the original but I can assure my reader that it’s a challenge and pretty darned good. There are, I am told, 75 answers. We found 68 before discovering that we were too naïve to have heard […]

Nov

16

Disturbingly loud scary noises

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I am taking the first year of the Goethe-Institut’s Oberstufe course in Manchester. Tonight, as Maggie (die Lehrerin), was krank, we had an Austrian supply teacher. At 1915 hours our lesson was interrupted by a very long (twenty seconds?), loud, deep bass rumble which initially sounded like thunder.
Thunder, as most are aware, doesn’t rumble for […]

Nov

16

Kate has a blog

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It’s over there.

Nov

8

Transport Direct

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Transport Direct Door-to-door journey planner for buses, trains and cars

Oct

23

A more interesting job?

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The very nice people in Control (sat in their relaxing armchairs being kept at a pleasent room temperature by air conditioning), prioritise calls in to descending order from Purple to Red to Amber to Green. The Purple and Red jobs are the most time critical.
Inept Pike Fishing: a blog written by someone with a far […]

Oct

22

Flock

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Posted using Flock which appears to be a robust and stable browser. It  comes with a free Wordpress.com blog and flickr integration.

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Aug

30

How not to spend a Bank Holiday

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Some toerag drove in to my father-in-law’s car just after midnight yesterday morning. I heard a loud bang and jumped out of bed, hoping I might see something. Unfortunately, I was looking out of the back window, not realising at this point quite what had happened.
A few minutes later my neighbours knocked on the door […]

Aug

25

Coincidence?

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My nearest blogger, according to the BlogMap above, shares two traits with me. He is a methodist (small ‘m’ as he’s free, one day I shall understand the difference) and his name, like mine, is easily searchable.

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