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Posted 28 September 2006 By mac and has no comments yet.

I looked out of the bedroom window just now, and there was a hearse, containing a coffin.

it seems that one of the elderly couple two doors up from us has died, and I had no idea. I don’t even know if it is the husband or the wife.

this strikes me as very sad – that someone located so close to us can die without us even being aware …

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Ikea

Posted 27 September 2006 By mac and has 2 comments.

if one *has* to go to Ikea, then Wednesday night at 8 p.m. seems the optimal time, at least at the Bristol store. We stopped for supper in the cafe first – haddock and chips for me, and an unfeasibly large number of meatballs for perlmonger.

then round we hurtled – curtain rail and curtains, various kitchen gubbins, a futon mattress and more were purchased, all to be conveyed to kalunina’s new flat at the weekend. Lets see just how much an old Saab can hold, shall we?

in other news, www.kestrel.org has pretty much fallen off Google, due to a corrupt robots.txt file (lord knows how that happened), so this is a little kick for the spiders.

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some bastard …

Posted 21 September 2006 By mac and has 3 comments.

has stolen our wheelbarrow.

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praise the lord

Posted 19 September 2006 By mac and has 7 comments.

Jesus Camp

what laws would you like repealed?

Posted 18 September 2006 By mac and has 1 comment.

the LibDems are promising to repeal a great many of the “Illiberal legislation and regulations” that have been forced upon us – see www.greatrepealact.com.

you can suggest laws for repeal, and their Top Ten are here.

hurrah!

Posted 16 September 2006 By mac and has no comments yet.

I’m more pleased than I can say that perlmonger and I appear to have been awarded our very own National Badger Day!

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the worst programmes on the Home Service

Posted 15 September 2006 By mac and has 8 comments.

according to this article in the Guardian. I don’t agree with quite all of them, but most of them, well …

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happy birthday

Posted 14 September 2006 By mac and has 2 comments.

to the hard drive, which IBM invented on 13 September 1956 (it says here (Engadget)).

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number crunching

Posted 11 September 2006 By mac and has 8 comments.
People killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks. 2,973
Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide as a result of the war on terror 72,000

more statistics from the Indy here.

Show of Hands

Posted 10 September 2006 By mac and has no comments yet.

Show of Hands
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

the extremely fine Show of Hands played an intimate set to 120 lucky people to mark the re-opening of the Village Pump at the Lamb Inn, in Trowbridge. perlmonger and I were lucky enough to get tickets 86 and 87 when we were at the Trowbridge Folk Festival this summer, and we were looking forward to the gig more than I can say.

with the very fine Martyn Joseph as support, and the ever excellent, and seemingly permanent third member of SoH, Miranda Sykes, complete with double bass, crammed on to the tiny stage, it was, in my opinion, the very best set we’ve ever seen them play – 90 minutes of their best songs.

the evening was rounded off with a raffle – we’d bought five tickets for a quid each. First prize was two tickets to the Trowbridge Festival in 2007. And we won! We also had another of our tickets drawn for the third prize, but we threw that one back in, for fear we’d be lynched by the crowd :)

a big thanks to John Alderslade and his team for getting the Pump reopened, and for laying on such a cracking evening – and we’ll see you all again in July :)

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