Tuesday, November 11, 2008

90th Anniversary of the Armistice

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90 years ago today they signed the Armistice to signal the end of the War to end all Wars. Of course, it wasn't by any means the end of ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Personal Stuff - Emails

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If you received an email (or two) purporting to come from me about an electronics firm, I apologise. Sometime between midday and 1.15pm toda...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Poetry Friday - 30

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This week I bring you another poet named William, William Wordsworth, and part of his poem The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem : The Nigh...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Poetry Friday - 29

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I don't know about anywhere else, but after a burst of unseasonable warmth last weekend (that saw me wearing t-shirt and shorts), it...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Personal Stuff

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Apologies to anyone who cares for being MiA the last couple of Fridays for Poetry Friday. I was seriously stressing out about having to move...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

TV that's not Doctor Who

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I daresay the world will implode at my admission that I've watched some TV that's not Doctor Who. I've just finished watching IT...
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Poetry Friday - 28

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For this week's Poetry Friday offering, I bring you a small part of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (it...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble novels

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Be warned, spoilers abound! Ghosts of India - Mark Morris Mark Morris' Ghosts of India is set in India in 1947 at a time when the count...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Poetry Friday - 27

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It was on September 19, 1819 that John Keats wrote the last of his odes, "To Autumn": SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, ...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Poetry Friday - 26

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They started up experiments with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN this week (deep under the Swiss/French border in the Alps). Radio 4 comm...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Hamlet RSC 2008 - a reaction

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(I missed yesterday's Poetry Friday - which is rounded up here at Wild Rose Reader - owing to being out of town, so this is a Shakespea...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Poetry Friday - 25

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This time next week I shall, all being well, be sitting in the Courtyard Theatre at Stratford upon Avon, listening to the immortal words of ...
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Dalek I Loved You: A Memoir - Nick Griffiths

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Another book review! It'll surely snow!! Mind you, this one's Doctor Who related, so maybe it'll only be a light snowfall rathe...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

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Here's a thing. Oh, it's called a book review, isn't it? I know! It's OK, I'll just wait and give you all time to recov...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Poetry Friday - 24

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I recently read Laura Lippman's In A Strange City , a murder mystery novel in which a strange little man attempts to hire PI Tess Monagh...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Poetry Friday - 23

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In three weeks time, I shall be seeing this for myself: (Photos Alistair Muir) And my excitement levels are steadily rising. This means I...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

Poetry Friday - 22

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Given the weather we've been having this week, this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley seems apt! The Cloud I bring fresh showers for the th...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

Poetry Friday - 21

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Life has quietened back down again for me this week (and the weather's cooling down too, thank goodness) after last week's laptop cr...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Doctor Who Prom Report

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So I went to the Prom today and managed NOT to explode from squee and glee (or melt in the heat!) I met a couple of friends from LJ - althou...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Poetry Friday - 20

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It's been a helluva week here... On Tuesday I picked up my reading glasses, and the arm fell off. But instead of the screw having fallen...
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