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Paddys walk – London to Istanbul
Here is Paddy Morris tucking into a well deserved meal at Anthony’s birthday bbq last night, here in Les Gets. Paddy is about a third of the way on his walk from Trafalgar square to Istanbul which he started on May 8th 2006, yesterday he had walked into Morzine where he is taking a weeks…
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The price of fame…
A moving plea from Rachel from north London: Journalists please read: “now hundreds of journalists from all over the world wanting to speak to survivors, and most of them seem to be trying to do so via me. I am sorry, but I can’t help” The problem is that Rachel is torn between two worlds…
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The Jones in 1881
An excellent and fun tool from the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis enabling you to check the distribution of your surname in the UK (excluding Ireland) for the years 1881 and 1998. The map is for Jones in 1881Purple areas are the highest concentrations (then red > orange >yellow > white) Archived comments These comments…
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BBC Radio 4 – Open Country – 9 August 2003
BBC Radio 4 – Open Country – 9 August 2003: “Richard learns that watercress contains more Vitamin C than fresh oranges and more calcium that cow’s milk.” and thats after visting the wild swimming website Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates…
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The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans.
The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans. An excellent petition that I can encourage you to sign. Yes a record company company AGAINST suing its fans for downloading music Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not…
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Who would have thought…..
Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful…
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UK Government IT spending
Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport £244,500,000Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland £10,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what…
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IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Officer
Chris Huhne recently asked the government for details of IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Ministers office since 2002 and Department for Communities and Local Government since 2006.The answer is :- Financial year Expenditure (£) 2002-03 26,748,425 2003-04 20,913,037 2004-05 16,815,471 2005-06 18,108,962 and this lovely bit “There is no central record of project Executives,…
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Frank’n Stein frozen moment
Frank’n Stein frozen momentOriginally uploaded by geofones. Emily came across this site today detailing some of the history of the Fiendish feet yogurt pots. These were conceived and developed by her mum, Jacqueline O’Neill, in the period 1988/89 just before she left Swindon. I’ve hung onto this promotional pot which was also developed by Jacqueline…