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Link not appearing on my space.
Posted May 16, 2011
I'm trying to add a link. I do the normal thing with the code, ie in this case
I press update introduction and it doesn't appear on my space.
It's a long time since I've mucked about with this marvelous system..
Any suggestions? I had thought to start a thread on Ask..but then I thought maybe I'm doing something stupid..
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Swifts and swallows
Posted May 6, 2011
They just turned up. Went outside...early evening and they are swooping and soaring for insects. Just turned up from Africa. Always gives me a thrill when they first arrive, after all that long journey.
Funnily enough a few weeks ago I suddenly thought..oh the swallows will just be leaving now.
It makes me so happy.
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I hate the BBC
Posted May 1, 2011
Yesterday I added a tag to my name, 'I hate the BBC'. Earlier today it was failed and and email was sent and my name was converted back to a number.
I've now added, 'I love the BBC'. It has yet to be failed.
The British Broadcasting Corporation is something that has gone to the heart of our national life for quite a few decades, and it actually means that every UK citizen who owns a tv or accesses the BBC's output on a computer, has to pay for it...by LAW.
The BBC appear to think it fine to stop me saying, 'I hate the BBC' in my name...but allow me to say I love her.
Is this the kind of limitation of free speech we can expect in the UK in the future?
I find it extremely worrying because the beeb goes to the heart of our national life.
And sweet mary mother of god...what is wrong with my giving an opinion about the BBC on my h2g2 name?
I just don't get it.
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Slept through it due to sleeping tablets..
Posted Apr 29, 2011
This whole wedding build up this week and the final pre-hysteria has really messed with my head. I suddenly knew I simply couldn't cope with either watching it or listening on the radio. The nauseating sycophancy of the BBC simply overwhelmed me. What used to be called BBC 24 and was very much world news based and factual has morphed into BBC News at some point. They actually had some sort of twirly Royal wedding thing shown every so often on the breaks. And the reporting was sickening - at least to me.
I took two sleeping tablets to make sure I'd sleep through it and not be tempted to watch the thing. Woke up at some point in the afternoon to see William driving an Aston Martin down the Mall with bride and balloons and cans attached...lots of cheering and union flags waved. Then they switched to Cameron's 'Big Society' street party in Downing street..with a lot of stupid interviews with people put there.
It all started with Blair in '97 when he had people put there to cheer him the day after his win.
We have become a nation of sheep..and now have our very own Royal X-factor.
It makes me feel ill. Maybe I'm getting old? 
But in the past the artifice felt a bit real. Now they deliver tents to people sleeping out and give them their very own Union flags. The Queen is dead; long live the her grandson and new wife
Okay back to my own personal reality. Went outside earlier for a vodka and coke in the garden. The red and white Campion are now in flower; I have my first buttercup; hawthorn is just on the turn with its flowering; pond is getting ever smaller..and yet they'd promised rain for the wedding 
Jesus please let this thing be over soon. Thank god for my English Country Garden 
Oh and I love to be patriotic..but not about the latest plastic manifestation of of our national identity. It's all manipulated by the money men. And Brits are turning into big society sheep.
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