January 2012
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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December 2011
2 posts
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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November 2011
1 post
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October 2011
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Oct 12th
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September 2011
4 posts
Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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McDonald's, neither you nor your commercials will...
becauseitmakesmesmile: eight-one-four-six
Sep 15th
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Bargain aprons on Zazzle UK today and tomorrow
I just discovered that Zazzle is having a sale on aprons, 40% off the cost today and tomorrow, 8th and 9th September. Choose your apron - here’s my choice - and at checkout enter the code ORDERAPRON11 to receive your discount. The apron I chose includes the image of the wonderful Fluffy the Dragon.
Sep 8th
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August 2011
3 posts
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Aug 24th
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Paypal scam emails
This morning I saw something I haven’t seen for a long time, a scam email purporting to be from Paypal. It arrives headed “Suspicious Activity” but when you look at it, not only is it addressed to ‘undisclosed recipients’ (which Paypal would never do), the address it comes from is clearly visible as ghana(at)payprt(dot)com (symbols converted to words by me). I...
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Aug 18th
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July 2011
4 posts
Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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Are you a dotScot?
Are you Scottish or do you have Scottish ancestors? If so you might be interested in a campaign currently attempting to get sufficient signatures for a new top level domain to be introduced using .scot as the suffix. The domain would primarily be intended for the use of Scots, Scottish descendants Worldwide, anyone in business producing goods traditionally associated with Scotland and anyone who...
Jul 14th
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Jul 6th
June 2011
4 posts
Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
Jun 22nd
May 2011
2 posts
May 20th
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I'm looking for suitable Squidoo lens links.
On my Photographic Cards from Scotland page I’ve just added a (currently very short) list of related lenses by other lensmasters and you can add your link by posting it in the guestbook below the list. I’m sure there are plenty of great lenses out there which could sit happily in the list and which my own readers would be pleased to follow on to after viewing my page. I’ll be...
May 20th
April 2011
2 posts
Busy Busy
The last Squidoo lens I posted about was my buttonhooks and shoehorns and that seems like so long ago. Since then, I’ve made four more lenses. First was a lens bringing together my Purple Star lenses. The second was Typospy, a useful site which can help you track down misspelled auction titles. Third was Buying and Selling in Online Auctions, a group lens linking those I’ve put...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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March 2011
2 posts
Mar 25th
Buttonhooks and Shoehorns
I’ve added yet another small collection to the Squidoo lenses I’ve been creating, this one is about buttonhooks and shoehorns. I’m guessing that, to most people, this would sound like a boring thing to collect but I’m confident that if you check out the page, you’ll discover a whole new (to you) fascinating area of collectables to enjoy. It’s another...
Mar 25th
February 2011
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Feb 22nd
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Soup ladle to fight a tiger?
This could be a really interesting story but we’re not actually told enough. A man was saved from a tiger attack by his wife, carrying a soup ladle, who came to his rescue after hearing his screams. I want to know how exactly his wife saved him. Instead, we have only the man’s story, given from his hospital bed. As far as the wife’s story goes, she heard her...
Feb 15th
Feb 15th
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Little Boxes
I started a new Squidoo for some ideas on recycling cardboard boxes. I made three just for the lens. These are used cardboard boxes which I didn’t want to throw away  and I’ve been thinking about how folks with small apartments can keep collections of interesting / pretty / collectable / funky little thingswithout having an excess of clutter. If you fancy recycling a box or two (to...
Feb 14th
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 3rd
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To The Old Men Of Power
A serious post, for once, prompted by the current events in Egypt. What is it that the old men of power don’t understand? The World has changed around them and yet they seem not to have noticed. This is an age when news travels around this little planet in microseconds. It is tweeted, it is blogged, it is probably old news by the time it reaches a president’s ears and we see raw,...
Feb 3rd
January 2011
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Jan 31st
Everyone needs a collection
I’ve been very neglectful of my Tumblog lately, well, for some months actually. But I haven’t been doing nothing, I’ve been making more pages over at Squidoo. I can’t remember where I had got up to with them here but the newest lenses are Collecting Pin Cushions, How to start a small collection, Fluffy the Dragon, Collecting Hat Pins, Letter openers, Small Collectables -...
Jan 31st
Jan 31st
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
Jan 27th
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Makoto Fujimura | A Letter to Young Artists →
iwritetobreathe:   Have you ever felt awkward, and felt the “lumps”? If you are an artist, perhaps you began your journey realizing that you are different from others. We have gotten used to having these “lumps” and accepted the fact that to the world the “lumps” looks strange and unnatural. Your teachers and your friends may not fully understand your intuition to try to fly with your winged...
Jan 27th
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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