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May 5, 2014
M-R’s challenge 12
I made that error regarding Ekaterina’s site, and yet I made it againwith the site chosen for today ! Its WordPress followers comprise a pretty small number; but when you add in its TwitBook adherents, you end up with more than 1,900! Do not worry, I shall not do this again: the rest reallywill be […]
Less than six degrees
“We were invited to GovernmentHouse in Canberra to a smallish (100 people) reception to meet the royals. We were there because William is patron of a service for bereaved children in the UK, and Kate patron of the palliative care service for children.” For those of you who have read my book, And then like […]
If I could say one thing …
Originally posted on MARGARET ROSE STRINGER:
The title is a shameless steal from a programme on our ABC TV – it’s about … erhmm … how not to be ripped off, basically, and called The Checkout. It contains a segment with this title, which contains someone pronouncing upon something people do that they shouldn’t if…
The title is a shameless steal from a programme on our ABC TV – it’s about … erhmm … how not to be ripped off, basically, and called The Checkout. It contains a segment with this title, which contains someone pronouncing upon something people do that they shouldn’t if…
Such appalling lies !
The rabble of wicked children, our ‘guvmint’, has been flogging the line that all the shit they’re going to throw on us next week when the Budget is handed down (by the bloke who’s the subject of my post of yesterday !) was caused by the previous Government’s mishandling of the economy, which resulted in […]
May 4, 2014
M-R’s challenge 11
Number eleven is the blog of someone I admire as a writer, a traveller and a raconteur – Simon Johnson. His blogsite is called“Simon Johnson of Clowne”; and because this indicates beyond a shadow of doubt that he is proud of his origins, he merits his own, entirely separate link:http://www.clowne-local-history-socie... even has its own video, […]
Can’t let this slip under the radar …
“The Age” is a newspaper coming from Melbourne, our second-largest city (and one someclaim to be our best).”The Age” is part of the Fairfax group which, although on its knees and bleeding, remains our onlynon-right-wing – in fact, unbiased, as it should be – newspaper publisher. The link behind the iconis yet another example of […]
Today’s scientific hero
Under the Open Culture icon is a link to a totally delightful video of the inimitable Neil de Grasse Tyson. I shan’t spoil it for you: just go and see for yourselves.Filed under: fun, science Tagged: Neil de Grasse Tyson
M-R’s challenge 10
Today is another person I ‘know’ pretty well … I think about as well as one blogger can ‘know’ another when they live nowhere near each other, anyway. And I am very fond of this person; she is someone of whom it is not possible to be other than fond, imnsho. She about as different […]
May 2, 2014
M-R’ challenge 9
I do like causing you to stop and gape, every so often; and so theblog that I recommend today is one created and managed by (in no order) author of a delightful self-publication available and going great guns from Amazon a multi-lingual multi-racial a beauty an actor a cook a university graduate and there may […]
