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Friday, 17 April 2015

If there were ever a good argument for not living too long, it might well be William Somerset Maugham

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My reading for the next few months seems to be settled. Amazon’s Buy With 1-Click facility is lethal: a brief second’s enthusiasm for a book...
Sunday, 5 April 2015

Ruthenia? Where’s that then? Well, it’s not in North Cornwall, but apparently TASS insists the persecuted locals would very much like it to be a part of Mother Russia. Closer to home, the Daily Express has another savvy piece of health advice and how we might still save ourselves from diabetes

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The clocks have gone back, the evenings are drawing out and so it is back to my Sunday evening routine of going to the Scarsdale for a drink...
Friday, 3 April 2015

Britain’s coming election — the wiseacres are weighing in, so why shouldn’t this wiseacre weigh in, too, to announce: they’re all wrong about everything! As for that Terry Pratchett, he ensured I got one of my many, many bollockings

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The first part of this - rather long entry - was written before the ‘leaders’ debate’ on TV last night. I didn’t watch it as I could see no ...
Friday, 27 March 2015

A pleasant meal, then a ‘right-wing’ revelation: just how meaningless are such political labels? Totally meaningless, a complete waste of time and space or just more bloody twaddle??

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Another meal. A triumph? Well, as I was the cook, I don’t know. It’s not for me to say. I enjoyed it, but then I can enjoy a nicely peeled o...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

Just a couple more to keep you going. If you like this sort of schlock, you’ll love these. If not . . .

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This first is Nobody’a Supposed To Be Here by Deborah Cox from her album One Wish. Your browser does not support this audio Deborah Cox - ...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Come on, fair’s fair – if Jerry Seinfeld can own 46 Porsches, why am I a nutter for owning six Mac laptops? Well, I’m not, of course, I’m ‘a collector’. So there!

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Let me first of all tell you how many laptops I have, most used by me, two used by my children, and one provided by the paper I work for (an...
Friday, 20 March 2015

Something to be getting on with while I get my act together and tell you about my THREE new Mac laptops (bought secondhand, but in great condition) and desperately try to convince you that I am not a nutter. No, sirree, me a nutter who can’t stop buy laptops he doesn’t really need? She’s called Lina and writes and sings great songs

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If these don’t play, load for you or even appear, try a different browser. They certainly work in Chrome, sometimes in Firefox and Safari, r...
Monday, 16 March 2015

The art of marketing: forget Leonardo and Joe Bach - our Jasmine and Piet have just had a wizard wheeze! And a few comments. Also latest on Putin: he’s back (but won't say where he was)

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In the course of pursuing an honest living engaged in my day job and ensuring there will be bread on the table of my nearest and dearest (ch...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

‘Putin ill’ shock. What can that mean for house prices?

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There seems to be quite a crowded agenda of things which are about go belly up and disrupt our lives accordingly. Many, if not most, need no...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Just for the craic, to keep you occupied while I think up my next inconsequential, derivative, faux relevant entry.

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I was looking for some piccies I once used in this blog - the entry was about personal internet radios - and searching Google images I came ...