Five (grim) predictions for 2011
Five predictions for open local government in 2011 that I really hope don’t come true.
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Tidy up time (apologies to feed subscribers)
OK, so I was actually a little surprised by how many subscribers I had to this feed, so apologies to everyone who experienced a couple of little splurges in their readers as I changed the feed that I direct into feedburner. No more changes planned! I decided I needed to make some changes to this [...]
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The betrayal of Scooby
When I was child, I enjoyed childish things. Like Scooby Doo and The Monkeys. I loved Scooby, it introduced me to the concept of mysteries and crime fiction, something I love to this day. I liked Velma’s irrepressible nature and her insistence on the rational. There are no ghosts. There must be something behind all [...]
Categories: bee in my bonnet, Family fun, musings, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: Gen X, scooby, tv | 5 Comments »
Don’t shoot a gift horse in the mouth
I take a lot of pictures and half way decent ones get uploaded to my Flickr account. Sometimes I get requests to use these photos. It’s tempting to think that I could charge for the use of my pictures. But truthfully, although sometimes I take some great pictures, I’m not consistently good enough and I’m [...]
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Foxy
The other day I saw a fox nosing around our back door with his snout uncomfortably close to our kitty door. I wasn’t sure if he could actually get through or not – but I was slightly worried. Clearly he could smell our cat food. For my American readers, urban foxes are not an uncommon [...]
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Tags: cat, fox, garden | 2 Comments »
There may be something in that
I saw you Remember David Kelly, the UK government scientist who, was the inside source for exposing the dodginess of the dodgy dossier? Just after he testified before the Parliamentary committee I saw him on the Underground, somewhere on the District line. My guess is Embankment. I’m notoriously poor at recognising celebrities so I stared [...]
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Tags: 9/11, book review, conspiracy, conspiracy theory | No Comments »
Happy New Year!
New Year is a time for resolutions, sometimes of value and rarely kept. But what’s a New Year without a few goals? So this year my New Year’s resolution is to start blogging more, both personally and professionally. And that means, at a minimum, four posts a week. At least twice on each site…including being [...]
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That just ain't right
Not too long ago (as in yesterday, I think – but my days are a blur right now) I saw this Douglas Adams quote: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and [...]
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Tags: curmudgeonry, gadgets, tech | No Comments »
The Bloody Bucket
I’ve been proofing the oral history I took with my grandfather about a decade ago. I’m planning to get it printed up via Blurb.com (unless someone can tell me of an easier text-based self-publishing company) and give it to family members for Christmas, so there’s an actual deadline to this project. Problem is I hate [...]
Categories: musings, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: Bill Powell, drinking dens, Lawrenceburg, oral history, Tennessee | No Comments »
Maccy or Baccy
Though it pains me to say it, I’ve been smoking on and off for most of my life. I’ve had significant periods of smoking and some fairly significant periods of not smoking. I quit quite easily when I became pregnant, and that I’m afraid – lulled me into a false sense of quittingness. I’ve restarted [...]
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