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Monthly Archives: December 2012

‘A’ You’re Adorable!

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by Gildas the Monk on December 31, 2012

A is for: Armstrong (Lance), Anderson (Gerry), Armstrong (Neil) and Aurora, Colorado

Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and seven times winner of the Tour de France was named as a drug cheat, stripped of his titles

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Abducted!

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by Anna Raccoon on December 29, 2012

Such an emotive word, abducted. It plucks at childhood memories of the dark Grimm’s fables; a world quite unlike Disney’s Hollywood version where Dad manages to jump back onto the speeding runaway train and with less than

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It’s that Nick Griffin Time of Year

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by Matt Wardman on December 28, 2012

Christmas has arrived again.

That means it’s time to take the Nick Griffin skeleton out of the cupboard for a day.

Here he is, channelling Blofeld, reading the Christmas Story.

It doesn’t quite work, somehow.

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Not Quite All-You-Can-Eat in Brighton

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by Mudplugger on December 27, 2012

In the news this week, we read of a Mongolian restaurant in Brighton which has banned a pair of enthusiastic regular customers for taking its offer of ‘all-you-can-eat’ too literally.

I’m no expert on the relevant legislation

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Over Fifty, with shades of Grey

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by Gloria Smudd on December 26, 2012

Well!  What a year!  I can’t really start this “Cheery Christmas Round Robin” any other way than to acknowledge how four words have transformed our lives in 2012! It all began when, while we were supposed to

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How to make an old woman happy – Part One…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 24, 2012

 

Ms Raccoon’s box of goodies has arrived from Paris and she is one happy Raccoon.

 

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL – THE VIEW FROM HOLMFELLOW HILL

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by Gildas the Monk on December 24, 2012

The lawyer looked very tired. It was a lacklustre room buried in the depths of London’s Middle Temple. It was not a particularly prestigious set of Chambers, but it was respectable. The room was a bit

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For hearts that bleat solely for themselves at this time…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 22, 2012

Wonderful.

Best ignore the adverts urging you to donate to charities for the homeless, the mentally ill and the drug addicted. Take a plate of minced pies out to the streets instead, it will do more good.

The ‘former chief executive’, Mike Potts,

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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 21, 2012

To celebrate the fact that the End of the World has failed to materialise – and as a suitable accompaniment to the Brave New World about to commence, (and I trust you have all noticed, that it is now

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The pic n’ mix Pollard Report.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 19, 2012

Along with several other interested parties, I have spent the afternoon digesting the Pollard report on whether the Newsnight ‘Savile’ programme was pulled from the transmission schedule because of ‘pressure from above’ or not.

Watching Twitter on the subject, the

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Is #Plebgate turning into #Fedgate? The Empire strikes back!

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by Sigillum on December 19, 2012

On the evening of 19th September the chief whip Andrew Mitchell toddled out of No. 10, and trundled with his bike up to the security gates at the end of Downing Street. It is common ground that he

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Exclusive – A Panoramic View from the BBC.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 17, 2012

Pan·o·ram·a (pn-rm, -räm) n.

1. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.

2. A comprehensive presentation; a survey.

 

Feudal dynasties will lock horns tonight. Old scores will be settled between those with limitless pockets. Panorama

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Danse Macabre: The Black Death, Part 2

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by Gildas the Monk on December 16, 2012

In mid September 1597 a wandering beggar called Andrew Hodgson came to the Cumbrian town of Penrith. As an itinerant of that time we can imagine him as an undernourished, crushed looking individual. On about the

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 15, 2012

An excellent, informed contribution from across the water on the subject of interviewing children after tragedies.

Mathew Norman – the best critique of Maria Miller so far!

Tent 101, a new entrant, with

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The Bansturbators are back in town.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 15, 2012

Licking their lips and salivating over images of grieving Mothers and frightened children.  More than 10,000 people were shot dead in the America last year – but 26, in one place, not just children, but infants even, oh and a suicide thrown in

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50 Shades of Grey on the kitchen table…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 14, 2012

I first met him in Bordeaux; engorged with blood red corpuscles, not an inch of fat on him, he lay waiting for me, silent, still, gleaming and glistening.

Trouble was, he was the greyest, least interesting, specimen I had ever set

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Starbucks: Let them Drink Tea

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by Matt Wardman on December 13, 2012

 

Oyez. Oyez. Oyez.

Hear-ye. Hear-ye. Hear-ye.

Hear me. Hear me. hear me.

Insofar as, Starbucks having been declared to be Tax Avoiders by the Court of Planet Mars, i.e., the Marsupial Court, and failing to note that they may or may not

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Christmas Bonuses Courtesy of the Taxpayer…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 12, 2012

The Taxpayer, aka, Northern Rock Asset Management is to hand back some £270m to 152,000 customers. Apparently the Taxpayer wasn’t used to running a Bank and forgot to print on the statements the amount of the original loan; this meant that it

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The Economics of Obesity.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 11, 2012

Reality TV, that neanderthal peek into freak lives, is going to explore the morbidly obese on Wednesday night. Have dinner early, you won’t feel like eating later.

I am fascinated by some of the statistics that have emerged

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Danse Macabre: The Black Death, Part I

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by Gildas the Monk on December 9, 2012

Consider a world in which over the next three months, between 30-50% of the people around you have died of a horrible disease, full of fever and boils, often vomiting blood. What would that be like?

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 8, 2012

FCA Blog finds stupidity in 140 characters….. Tim Worstall with some hints for the Daily Mail as to where to find the spokesperson… The Quiet Man on media madness.

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The Secret Court of the Twitteratti.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 8, 2012

The Secret Court of the Twitteratti makes the Court of Protection look positively transparent. We do not know who sits in the Court of Twitteratti, most judges rejoice in cloaking their identity behind amusing non de plumes. Some are professional judges, paid to inform opinion in one

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Wearing your heartfelt denial on your sleeve…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 7, 2012

The perfect Christmas gift for the elderly celebrity in your life. Forget the reindeers and Santa Christmas jumper this year for Grandpa. Buy him the latest shawl collared fleece jumper at Macy’s, with a handy pocket on

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Week one of your Baird investment…

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by Anna Raccoon on December 5, 2012

Good morning Northumbria! The temperature is just hovering above freezing, you have a North Easterly wind blowing in from Siberia at 21 km an hour, and it might get as high as 2 degrees this afternoon. So just to cheer you

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Parliamentary Chugging.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 4, 2012

As through this world I wander
I meet lots of funny men.
Some’ll rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen.
-Woody Guthrie, “The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd”

Parliament, in the ‘robust’ shape of Margaret Hodge,

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Would you Adam and Eve it?

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by Anna Raccoon on December 3, 2012

No sooner was the ink dry on my post, than Ms Raccoon was proved, both satisfyingly and depressingly, right – yet again.

It is all OUR fault. Us.

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Wemmick of the Wolds.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 2, 2012

Wemmick was the humble clerk in Great Expectations who desired to turn his humble Elephant and Castle home into a fortress, complete with drawbridge, with the Dickensian version of a Gatling Gun on the buttresses to ward

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Saturday Evening Posts worth reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 1, 2012

Longrider takes it all with a pinch of salt…. Darren Laverty injects some much needed sanity into the millions of words written about ‘victims’ – one non-victim we should be listening to!

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