Author: bish
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Replacing Trident: buying a better bang…
So GovUK is debating the replacement of our Trident Nuclear Capability. And I ask, why on Earth should we replace it? Whether or not you believe nuclear weaponry ever helped establish peace – and I could argue both ways – I can’t understand why nukes are in any way relevant now. The old enemy is…
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Fotheringay
Sat here at home with a sickly miss (but a much cleaner bedroom carpet…) I came across this link. Go see. (Fotheringay was a short-lived offshoot of Fairport Convention) technorati tags: Fotheringay, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention
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Keep Britain Tidy (if you dare)
Whatever happened to the ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign? It was all over the place (well, in a tidy sort of way) when I was a kid. Recently I’ve noticed, possibly due to the winter die-back of the hedgerows and verges, that the litter-bug message could do with a fresh coat of paint. It was with…
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Journey well, little pig (2)
Oh dear. Back in November last year we found one of miss’ guinea pigs, Titchina, dead in the hutch. She’d arrived at chez bish shortly after we moved here five years ago. That left the other ‘pig, Ginger Spice, all alone so we bought another five year old guinea pig, Flossy, from a Gloucestershire guinea…
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Bird ‘flu, workers flew!
Ok, so we’ve established that Bird ‘Flu is a bad thing, but you have to retain a sense of the absurd… A quote from Associated Press: JAJI, Nigeria – The peasant farm hands were deeply suspicious as they watched the police marksmen trying to control bird flu kill 168 ostriches the farm had reared over…
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Let it snow (our chickens are now automatic!)
Not that we’ve had much snow as yet, last day of February that it is. Nevertheless, it’s fairly chilly out there, and putting the chickens in at night and releasing them in the morning is currently not on my list of 100 best things. (by the way, what on Earth is this current fad on…
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James Lovelock: The Revenge of Gaia
Just finished this book. Not a large tome, and perhaps unfortunately (for so many reasons) released at about the time that the whole Greenhouse story gets a bump in media coverage, which kinda steals Lovelock’s thunder. He has, of course, been saying all this for decades and only now are the (heh) scientific types coming…
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D’oh!
If you are wondering, in blind panic, where the family site has gone… don’t panic any more – I did a whoopsy. Someone asked me to set them up a message board and in doing so I overwrote my own site! [embarrassed]. Back later… Back now.
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Celtic relief!
Oh, the slight discomfort as the opening credits ran. Allowing the media to take soundbites (video-nibbles?) of ones life is to allow them free use of those snippets in or out of context. Ridicule and parody are all available to the producer once the team of camera-, sound- and light-men have got what they came…
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In response to chain letters…
I was going to blog about chain letters after receiving an unpleasant one today, but it turned into a ramble (as usual) about censorship and free speech. In the end I thought I’d just post my return email, in case it helps someone else with the same problems. [XXXXX] lovely. I don’t censor [miss’s] email…
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