Rob's Record Reviews And That (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Milton Jones & Paul Karensa, Norwich Playhouse, 17th November 2009 Milton Jones is a punner. He likes word play and his set consists of over an hour of pun after pun after pun, delivered so quickly that I couldn’t take any notes. I’ve heard him on the radio over the years and thought that he might be hard work if he were given a long slot, but I was wrong. Jones’ puns and word...
EdCompBlog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Live blog from #torbayrtc Simon Elliot from West Cornwall RTC started by saying that Penzance is not in the middle of nowhere, it's at the end of nowhere! :-) First bit of software displayed is iWeb. He thinks that this is a much neglected piece of software and is dismissed by some because it is "not a proper web design tool". (Twets during this presentation included "iWeb = iWin"...
Water & Art (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
High tide on the River Hamble sketch, 15/11/09 Saturday 14th November Weather stormy, very wet and windy Friday afternoon and through Saturday. Glad we came back from Cornwall last weekend as it sounds as if that bore the brunt of Friday's weather. Sea over the road at Penzance apparently. Severe flood warning for Christchurch Harbour on Friday night. A number of other flood warnings / watches along...
BabelStone (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
It is not often that a new Ogham stone is discovered, so when last week someone asked me to take a look at a piece of slate with a possible Ogham inscription on it that they had just found, I was excited, but not overly hopeful that it would turn out to be a genuine Ogham inscription. I frequently get people sending me pictures of various artefacts to identify (mostly seals with supposed Phags-pa script...
IDLE (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
...... and why a Conservative victory at the next election won't make a whole heap of difference. Being no longer idle, I fall behind on my discretionary reading, so it was only last night in the bath that I read Rod Liddle's piece on Jeanie Lynch from last week's Speccie. Jeanie is ‘Lead Officer for Equality in Children and Young People’s Services for Devon County Council’. I can't...
The Life and Times of this Old Git (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Todays post is about the Storm and high Winds that swept across South Devon last night and today. A few times every year the Rail line from London and the Midlands to Plymouth and Cornwall gets closed by these type of storms due to waves that reach 30 feet high and break up to 40 yards acrooss the lines and roads, also causing damage to them. The government have pumped millions in the last few years...
Cornish Beach Brummie (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was at gale force and the rain lashing down so hard it bounced off the floor as it hit and reached back up into the heavens. And we were booked at the Carn Brea Castle Restaurant, one of the highest points in Cornwall, to go for a meal with friends. As we arrived, the wind whipped around our bodies, trying to carry us away with it, but we were having none of...
From London to Land Girl (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Friday 13th brought with it torrential rain, thunder and lightening storms, and severe weather warnings that threatened 80 mph winds across Cornwall. Here at Newhouse Farm we decided to batten down the hatches in preparation for the heavy weather. Dick headed down to the bottom of the valley and lowered one of the wind-turbines whilst Steve, the farm's handy-man who had been spending much time up rickety...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Toronto Star columnist Rosie Dimanno, following Charles and Camilla on their four-province tour of Canada, is decidedly unimpressed with a Charles she expects will be a placeholder king and a Camilla who just doesn't get modern monarchy. What's up with Camilla? The problem isn't that Camilla is 62 years old and not as pretty or dazzling as the late Princess of Wales. I fear, if Diana were still around...
Life Is Sweet In the Fenway (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
'Twas a rather good weekend. Started out at Cornwall's in Kenmore Sq playing darts and Taboo over drinks before Bill and I headed to the St. Botolph District for a few more drinks with Matt...then back to my place for more drinks. Yesterday...slow start, but I managed to make it on time for my hair cut appointment. Bill picked me up Downtown to drive to the Burlington Mall, where we met up with the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
• Remains of firework found behind front door • Tributes paid to woman who died after saving son Police in Cornwall todayappealed for more information after calling on the people involved in a firework-related house fire that killed a woman to "do the decent thing and come forward". Mary Fox, 59, died after helping her youngest son, Raum, 17, who has learning difficulties, to jump...
St Ives Cornwall (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Caricatures by Malcolm Bowmer - A Unique Christmas Gift Only a few weeks now until Christmas - can't wait ! I thought I'd feature a few ideas to help you with food and gifts. Its time to order you turkey (or duck, goose, rabbit .... whatever) and the place to do that is Harvey Brothers - the best family butcher in town. Their website features a selection of what they have on offer and you can buy online....
Inside Track - Breaking News Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
PIC 1 Yours Truly at FMP PIC 2 Panoramic view of Five Mile Point Speedway PIC 3 I Spotted this sticker in the pits PIC 4 The back straight at FMP PIC 5 From the center at FMP PIC 6 600cc Xcel Mods in action PIC 7 IMCA Mods in action PIC 8 to 17 MODIFIED Action PIC 18 Victorious Stewart Friesen scales the catch fence PIC 19 Stewart Friesen in the FMY Victory Lane PIC 20 First Three at FMP LtoR McCreadie,...
Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Over a week ago Caroline Righton made a desperate, but untrue smear attack on the Liberal Democrats candidate for the new St. Austell & Newquay seat in Cornwall, Stephen Gilbert. Last Sunday I blogged, " Caroline Righton and Tories in dirty campaign tricks - shame " this is all about a twitter comment from Stephen Gilbert: "was at meeting about regeneration of major town (declined...
read_warbler (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate it! The perfect accompaniment to Halloween is a creepy book for the RIP IV challenge and my final book for that was Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley. The storm of the century is raging. Cathy and Ethan live with their father in The Old Inn which perches on top of a cliff, attached to the mainland of Cornwall by only a very narrow path....
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