Monthly Archives: August 2012

Tunes for a Tuesday – 14 August 2012

Take These Chains From My Heart – Rosanne Cash – The List [Listen] A Shot of Rhythm and Blues – The Beatles – Live At The BBC [Listen] Missing You – Hinemoana Baker – Puawai [Listen] Love You Like I … Continue reading

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Tunes for a Tueday – 7 August 2012

Hard to Please – The Weepies – Be My Thrill [Listen] Maps – Christopher Norman – BIRP! November 2011 [Listen] A Promise [Exclusive] – Warm Weather – Looking Through [Listen] Shuffle – Bombay Bicycle Club – BIRP! August 2011 [Listen] … Continue reading

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Some madman going the wrong way completely

Copyright trolls rear their ugly heads. Here’s a direct link

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Where’s the serpent?

My (significantly older) cousin Ruth turns 65 today. Does a fairly good impersonation of Eve with the apple in the Garden of Eden, I think…. Cousin Dave is her thespian equal as Adam.

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The pensioner as a 21 year old sex kitten

My (significantly older) cousin Ruth turns 65 today. Like wine, she has improved with age…..

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Why the Headmaster’s assembly lectern grew a tablecloth

I attended Westlake Boys High School in New Zealand in the early to mid 1960s, which makes a 50th Jubilee at around this time highly appropriate. Given that I was in the first intake (Third Form then – 3 Latin, … Continue reading

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How recessions work

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You would have to understand the United States in the 20th century

From the Daily Telegraph’s obituary of Gore Vidal: To understand Nixon’s career you would have to understand the United States in the 20th century, and that is something that our educational, political and media establishments are not about to help … Continue reading

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