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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Essert-Romand. Day four - surrounded by clouds so I use the opportunity to plug my novel (which ain't half bad, even though I say so myself)

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Essert-Romand, Haute-Savoie, France. Our fourth day here in the Haute-Savoie and the clouds have arrived. That sounds worse than it really ...
Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Essert-Romand. Day three - an insight

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Essert-Romand, Haute-Savoie, France. Those who might be craving an additional insight into brother Mark's character (brother Mark, my f...
Monday, 12 September 2011

Essert-Romand. Day two. And to use a cliche: Greek default and the euro - the endgame

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Essert-Romand, Haute-Savoie, France. Second day here in the Rhone Alps, so I thought I might dribble on a bit and keep whoever is bloody in...
Saturday, 3 September 2011

CIA and MI6 not above doing business with whoever if the results are right

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A while ago, I trawled the net for whatever pictures I could find of various world leaders schmoozing the Gaddafi. I came across several and...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

A silly season? Anything but, my sweethearts. And God rot these aches and pains

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Whatever happened to the silly season. Traditionally, hacks and the media obliged to employ them are so hard up for hard news stories in Aug...
Saturday, 27 August 2011

And one more, just for the craic, why the misery of others cheers us up and filthy, filthy Brits

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It’s Saturday morning, I’m off to London a little earlier this week, I always miss my children so here’s another short, this one for parents...
Friday, 26 August 2011

Steve Jobs steps down: a good excuse to rant about the smug, smug, smug ‘Mac community’ (Lord, I loathe them). Meanwhile, we stick two fingers up at the UN, more or less. And a short film from nowhere

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I have preferred Apple Macs ever since I knew about computers, and although my first PC was a Mac clone, I bought it only because I couldn’t...
Thursday, 25 August 2011

This lad falls in love (her name's Romola) while the euro farce continues

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This might not be the place for a review of a television drama series, but I shall give you one anyway. My sole justification is that it sta...
Saturday, 20 August 2011

Lord save me from bureaucrats

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I’ve spent the past 24 hours nursing bad toothaches and coming to terms with the fact that the dictum ‘better means worse’ is, unfortunately...
Thursday, 18 August 2011

U.S. woman aims to become the World's Biggest Moron and is well on her way. Then there's young Mariam who is, perhaps, more worthy of our attention, while the Angela and Nicolas show rolls on. And on and on and on

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Great news reaches me from Arizona in the United States where a woman called Susanne Eman intends to become the fattest woman in the world. ...