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Monthly Archives: January 2014

What happens if three butterflies flap their wings simultaneously?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 31, 2014

Edward Lorenz’s ‘Butterfly effect’ sounds positively poetic – a beautiful butterfly innocently flutters its wings in sunny Brazil; in far off Texas, ugly storm clouds gather and lives and homes are wrecked as a tornado wreaks

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Evidence is a two-edged sword.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 30, 2014

‘Evidence’ and ‘Fact’ are two different things. The words are not interchangeable. That basic lesson in the comprehension of the English language appears to have been missing from the curriculum of an entire generation. Time and

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Structural Linguistics, Statistics, and other Tongue-twisters.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 29, 2014

I have been grappling with the latest meandering thoughts on how a Conservative government can best enlarge the state sector and provide employment for all those annoying lefties….

It is called the “Health

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Children's Rights and Solomon's Judgement.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 26, 2014

I was intrigued by an article I read recently written by a residential care worker talking about Cumberlow Lodge, a home I was in for a short period. Underneath the article was the usual crop of comments.

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All Aboard the New Marie Celeste!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 24, 2014

Eh bah gum! The British media know how to stoke the bonfire of fear that we keep warm by in these days of ‘fuel poverty’…

Ta Ra! I give you ghostly hulks of Russian cruise ship

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No Laughter Please – We're British!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2014

– And the 2014 National Television Award for light entertainment before the watershed goes to….Haley Cropper for playing so convincingly a trendy transgendered, terminally ill, cancer patient, terrified of the Liverpool pathway….before finally topping herself to

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On-line hypocrites.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 22, 2014

Not much time today – the woman-sized microwave is calling…..only ten more sessions and I shall be pronounced ‘mi-cuit’ and allowed to resume normal life!

So, contributions welcome from you over the next few

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Modern British life!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 22, 2014

One of these images illustrates the work of an ‘artistic radical with a cool intellectual agenda’ being an ‘iconic portrait of a complex allegorical description of modern British life’. It has graced the home of

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Liberal Syllogisms.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 21, 2014

Not to put too fine a point on it – if you are size of a Beluga whale, and you unavoidably, without sexual intent, ‘violate the personal space’ of every man, woman, dog and child in

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The Grand Poobah and Dame Janet Smith – Updated

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by Anna Raccoon on January 20, 2014

Twitter is enduring a multi-orgasm this morning; positively trembling at the knees. An army of Observer reading foot soldiers have taken to the airwaves to protest at the apparent ‘news’ that the BBC ‘turned a blind eye

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The Leg-end of Larkfield.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 19, 2014

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets…da, dum; da, dum….the innocent children clustered round

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One Step forward, One Back…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 18, 2014

Thursday morning, both my crazy taxi driver and the crazy nurse were complaining of sore throats and ‘maladie‘ – by Friday morning both had fielded replacements from the subs bench. I’m not allowed a replacement, I

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Watch Out! There's a Raccoon about!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 15, 2014

Just when you thought it safe to go back in the water, eh?

Ms Raccoon stirred briefly yesterday – as several sharp eyed readers noticed – and thought she

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