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K is for Wrestling

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. No, I haven’t lost my grip on the alphabet. K for me will forever be associated with wrestling as I shall endeavor to explain. The wrestling I enjoyed watching wasn’t the [...]

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Hands up! This is a sustain!

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

What does the word ‘sustainability’ mean to you? It’s one that crops up pretty much everywhere these days to the extent that its meaning has been forgotten. It’s become a cliché. I should say at the start that this thought wasn’t prompted by Roger’s comment yesterday, but by the new planning reforms issued by the [...]

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Let Them Eat Cladding

Monday, 26 March 2012

Flipping through the Sunday papers last night, I had check the clocks to make sure I hadn’t moved them forward too much. The news certainly read like I got ahead of myself and to April the first. Climate change minister *, Greg Barker, has decided that the reason why the icecaps are melting and polar [...]

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Spring Clean

Sunday, 25 March 2012

It the time of year to clear out clutter, blow off the dust and give things a bit of a polish and I started with my blog template. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The coding on my old theme had got a bit bloated, slowing it down, although that [...]

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Hello Manchester!

Friday, 23 March 2012

If you click on my portrait of the Queen waving (left), you will see that I have cleverly used a gentle soft focus to flatter her. In fact, it’s actually out of focus and my excuses are: one, I was using my old pocket camera on full telephoto; two, I was shooting between the heads [...]

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J is for Jerome K Jerome

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Although I love my gadgets, one of the most popular that I’ve avoided so far is the Kindle. My problem with it is that although one might store a library within [...]

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Beware Friendly Homosexuals

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

I was only saying the other day that religion should play no part in politics (and vice versa) when along comes that video of the Rev Dennis Terry rant before he introduced would-be US President Rick Santorum. Makes you despair doesn’t it? Watching US comedies and tv dramas, you’d think that as a country they [...]

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Prankster

Monday, 19 March 2012

We live in quite an old house and Mrs P is convinced that we have a mischievous ghost. How else do you explain why else it is that just one of a pair of earrings that go missing from her jewellery box every time? Being rational, unimaginative and a man, I don’t believe in such [...]

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I hate to say this, but…

Sunday, 18 March 2012

It pains me to say it, but it seems that this government might have had an unexpected bout of common sense over its consultation on Equal Civil Marriage. Behind that common sense sounding title lurks the issue that has had some religious leaders up in arms, of course, that of same-sex marriage and whether the [...]

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