February 2012
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Tories to call snap election?
In what seemed a very strange move, Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, who had been due to appear on the BBC in the run-up to the Scotland v England Six Nations rugby match today, was axed from the programme at short notice.
This was, apparently, something of a surprise to BBC Scotland, the decision having been taken at a UK level, south of the Scottish border.
A spokesman was quoted as...
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Dear John Bull
Dear John Bull,
The problem with a marriage of convenience is that the longer it goes on, the less convenient it is likely to be.
After 300 years in this marriage, I am now seeking to regain my independence. It’s not as if you didn’t know this day would come, it’s clear we have grown apart in many ways.
I believe in looking after the people, you say they should look after themselves. I take...
January 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
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November 2011
1 post
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October 2011
1 post
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September 2011
4 posts
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McDonald's, neither you nor your commercials will...
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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.
August 2011
3 posts
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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...
July 2011
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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...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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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...
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...
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March 2011
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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...
February 2011
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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...
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...
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,...
January 2011
15 posts
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 -...
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
