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Mappa Monday Challenge

Monday, 17 October 2011

You’ve probably heard the joke about the army sergeant-major who sets his squaddies the challenge of measuring the height of the flagpole. After much scratching of heads, one soldier solves the problem by getting an axe and chopping down the pole. His mates then measure it as it lies on the ground.

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Down and Out Down Under

Sunday, 16 October 2011

I didn’t write about the Rugby World Cup yesterday because there are at least two periodic readers from the North Wales area and I’m not one to intrude on private grief. Not that I wasn’t supporting Wales as they took on France. I wouldn’t say that I became Welsh for the day, but I had [...]

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In Print

Friday, 14 October 2011

I don’t like to blow my own trumpet, well no more than once or twice a day anyhow, but I thought this was worth noting. I had my first photo published in our local paper today, along with a few other contributors to their Flickr group. It’s a shot of Our Lady and the Apostles [...]

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Footypedia

Thursday, 13 October 2011

brunskill (n.) — arcane ability of eastern European football fans to set fire to concrete. Above is an entry from Footypedia, a little gem of a book that I only discovered this week, even though it was first published in 2008. It takes as its premise that there are people, things and actions in sport [...]

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M is for Mostert’s Mill, Montagu and Monarch

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Can I complete the whole of Round 9 of ABC Wednesday based on our four week stay in South Africa in February? Click on the photos to enlarge. Mostert’s Mill is one of the landmarks of Cape Town, sitting alongside the busy De Waal Drive and within a few minutes walk from where we were [...]

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Odd Streak

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

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Currie Sauce

Monday, 10 October 2011

I’m no fan of Strictly Come Dancing, but Mrs P is so it’s one of those tv programmes I watch from time to time. Personally, I find it a bit depressing because it is a sure sign that winter is well and truly on the way. I mention this because the first to leave the [...]

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Damned Lies

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Don’t you just love statistics. The latest figures for Manchester show that the riots and looting earlier this summer actually lead to a reduction in crime. Let me explain. In the past, if a burglar was caught having broken into ten houses, it was recorded as a single incident — one criminal = one crime.

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The Bits In Between

Friday, 7 October 2011

They say that the problem with TiVo and other digital tv recorders is that it may sound the death knell for advertising if viewers simply skip through the ad breaks, but they ads are often more entertaining than the programmes. Take the one for the Audi A6 Avant for example. That’s a still from the [...]

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