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Dec19

Your Blues Name

BB King playing trumpet

Love the blues? Ever wanted your own blues name? Use this handy chart to find yours…

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Nov29

What Facebook really needs

Great Facebook button idea

A long overdue Facebook function…I wonder how you add it to their wish list? wink

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Nov06

So Long Clive

Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones.

Sad news today that iconic TV actor Clive Dunn, OBE passed away, from complications following surgery in Portugal.

Dunn was born in Covent Garden, into a family of actors and it was clear from a young age that he would be continuing the family tradition. He started acting professionally in the 1930s, until the outbreak of WWII, where he enlisted with the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. He was captured in Greece and spent more than four years an an Austrian POW camp.

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Oct07

Chuckles

This is Wong on so many levels

This is Wong on so many levels

 

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Sep20

Words of wisdom

Snowy Owl

Just lately, I’ve stumbled across some great quotes and I thought it was worth jotting a few of them down here (my memory is not what it used to be rolleyes)

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Jul18

Rant: Weasel Wording Down Under

Weasel

And they wonder why we are all so cynical about politics… rolleyes

Heather English is a retired school teacher now living in Invercargill. She has been an avid amateur genealogy researcher for about 35 years.

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Jul15

Olympics British Style

DATELINE: LONDON

In view of the ongoing heavy rains in the UK, representatives of the British government and the London Mayor’s office have met with the emergency committee of the IOC to propose a number of 11th-hour changes to the upcoming London Olympic programme.

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has announced that all Olympic staff will be undergoing SCUBA lessons this week and his office are currently in the process of buying up wetsuits, fins, masks and snorkels from every dive shop in and around the Red Sea. Supplies of diving equipment in the UK have already been appropriated and set aside for use by visiting dignitaries, due to their virtually-unused and near-new state. … more »

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