Monthly Archives: July 2008

Jul
29
2008

A Taste of Autumn

by lunc

Autumn (or Fall as you septics say) is my favourite season.  I just had a small but fantastic taste of autumn today in some sandwiches.  Granary rolls, buttered with thick-cut shredded roast beef, raw mushroom, and a soft blue cheese called Saint Agur.  These were made fresh this morning and left at room temperature until [...]

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Jul
28
2008

Who is Obama’s Opponent?

by lunc

This might sound like a stupid question, but you have to understand that American politics doesn’t seem at all clear to me, or it seems, to the media in England.  That, as Rumsfeld would say is “Old England” rather than “New England”.  England (the old one) is not a state.  Oh, sure we speak English, [...]

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Jul
25
2008

Fire Non Alarms

by lunc

Five false fire alarms this morning.  A new record.  It’s was all a ruse to steal my apple because after I ate it, they stopped.

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Jul
24
2008

Presidential Sock Wash

by lunc

During the presidential run off, I wrote a poem about how stupid it all looks.  I guess it’s reasonably safe to post it here now that it is all over.  Most of the people who read it didn’t get it until I told them it was satire about the run off.  Then they thought it [...]

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Jul
23
2008

Do you know your Onions?

by lunc

I expect that most of you can calmly go to your local grocer’s, market or lay-by and point out some onions in a crowd of other veg without breaking a sweat.  However these onions didn’t always look like that, with their dry light brown skins, their little root tufts and the crispy bit that sticks [...]

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Jul
22
2008

Bell Ringing is Loud

by lunc

Bell ringing is the only activity where you are activety encouraged to be loud enough to annoy the whole of a small town.

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Jul
21
2008

Around Bergen

by lunc

I was lucky enough to live in Bergen (Norway) for a time.  I look back on it with a real fondness.  It’s a fantastic place to live if you love the outdoors – walking, sailing, canoeing etc.  In fact if it wasn’t for the enormous and crippling taxes I’d still live there now and I [...]

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Jul
20
2008

Women Bloggers – Bah

by lunc

It’s amazing that what shows up in the dashboard list, under Other WordPress News. Mostly it is articles about running your WordPress site but sometimes (and increasing so) it’s just another drivel non-article. The latest one from Matt is Favourite Women Bloggers? Women do pretty much everything these days. Many of them blog, some of [...]

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Jul
18
2008

Manholes Covers

by lunc

Why are manhole covers mostly round?  There is a very good reason and you’ll smile when you know it.

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Jul
17
2008

Domain Name Renewals

by lunc

Yesterday I got errors committing the new version of a plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory.  After posting on the forum it seems that the domain name was not renewed.  Whilst this is pretty funny and did make me laugh out loud, it also made me a bit uncomfortable.  I’ve got domains names too. Mostly [...]

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