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He is a nightmare on a computer though lol Aye they’d better get used to it pretty quick too lol
Ahh more flats just what we need nowadays, you can’t have too many flats lol. That’s all they seem to build now isn’t it. Wow even if it wasn’t on top of them still that’s quite a story of survival! It is, it’s always funny how such coincidences come up especially now with the internet.
It could work, it could be made out of local Welsh slate so it would fit in with the landscape and everything ;-) Oh yea I’d defin buy one. I haven’t yet (hanging head in shame) but I’m dragging the other half up there next year in April sometime so I’m gonna do it. Oh dear was it out of season or was the weather too bad for it (assuming it was out of season, hoping you wouldn’t climb Snowdon in bad weather). And well done by the way, a lot of people cheat and go by train one way or the other. I’m going to walk up and down, don’t know what the other half is going to do, he might have to take the train back down but we’ll see.
Yea he is. It makes it a bit easier but we tend to just ask for what we want from each other so it’s not a problem anyway :-D
Yea we did but only just, it wasn’t the most convincing of wins. We’re playing Argentina on Saturday and I’m hoping we’re going to play better otherwise we’ll be f****d to say the least. England have been playing too, but I’m not sure how they’ve been doing as all their matches are on Sky, which I don’t have. Think they just about won their match against Argentina but I think it was a struggle and again not a convincing win.
Sam :-) ]]>
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I'm now reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and A Farther Shore Ireland's Long Road to Peace by Gerry Adams, which I seem to have a tendancy to argue with...out loud too which can be a bit disturbing to others around me (got some strange looks from a woman on the train yesterday lol) ]]>
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This is a thorough and in-depth look into the long religious and political life of Ian Paisley. Moloney gives a no holds barred approach to Paisley's life and although he is at times biased against he still manages to get across the times when Paisley did good as well as bad. Paisley does not come across well throughout much of the book and is shown to be little more than a religious zealot incapable of listening to logic or reason. His foray into politics shows little change until Boal (in the 70's) and Robinson (in the 90's) turn him into their political puppet. After reading this I can understand why he didn't want to collaborate with the author(s) as he can only be ashamed and embaressed by his earlier behaviour (at least he damn well should be). The change in his views and opinions on power sharing and the DUP's approach to Sinn Fein and the IRA is immense and he should be congratulated for finally seeing sense, however given that the agreement these two factions signed is little different from the Sunningdale Agreement of the 70's one must ask, nay demand, why the hell they couldn't sort themselves out then rather than waiting 30-odd years and 3,526 deaths before getting a grip on themselves.
One very interesting thing that quite suprised me when reading this was the way Paisley managed to get everyone riled up and set the scene for such violence that followed (he was not alone in this I know other people on both sides were just as bad) yet managed to stay out of such trouble himself. As one UDA man, Freddy Parkinson, said he is 'the tarantula who spreads the venom of further conflict around us...has been a major contributor to our prolonged tragedy...he uses words to create violent situations, but never follows the violence through himself'. One must question the motives behind such actions, was it simply religious and political bigotry or something else.
Overall Moloney has done a sterling job describing and explaining the Paisley of then and now and how the turn around in his attitudes and opinions came about, without too much bias on his part. A good read and an important one for anyone who wishes to understand the Troubles and subsequent Peace Process. ]]>
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Hope it does pick up for you. And it is a slightly dangerous thing, I had the sam problem last weekend as my nan (grandmother) gave me a voucher for WHSmith where I got one chart paperback free when I bought another one, I was in there for ages trying to choose just two eventually decided on The Prophecy by Chris Kuzneski and The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Can't wait to get round to reading them (got quite a to read pile at the mo lol) ]]>
Thanks Liz, I've slowed down a bit of late gotten distracted by other books and challenges, still trying to tie them all together but it doesn't always work :-)
Keep at it, you'll get there :-D ]]>