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Courtesy of the local library...
Posted Apr 27, 2010
Just passing through this morning having signed up to my local library. Alas my old PC blew up a while back so I've been offline for some time. Couldn't stay away totally, of course - I've been lurking occasionally from work. Unfortunately I haven't dared to post; although there's no specific rule banning us from going on the net I suspect there might be because the people that make such decisions don't realise that we can (well we can get to h2g2 at least, via the link the company kindly provided to the BBC Weather site)!
I've noticed that change is in the air, so I thought now would be a good time to return...
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A game of two halves... and two balls!
Posted Feb 20, 2008
Being a sucker for odd traditions I've always wanted to see this event, but I see that this year's event has been the subject of controversy. Whether 'cheating' is, strictly speaking, possible in a game with (almost) no rules I'm not sure!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7246647.stm
I love this quote from another page: "What rules there are say motor vehicles are not allowed and manslaughter is illegal" 
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In those days it took tens and twos...
Posted Feb 16, 2008
Just found this reference to the UK's 'least used phone box'. It presumably gained this dubious distinction since I stopped using it on a regular basis when I lived just up the lane in the Eighties. For some reason the kiosk was sited in a field rather than on the road, an odd arrangement I've never seen anywhere else. I often used it to call my friends rather than have to beg the use of the house phone and have my conversation overheard by my parents.
http://flickr.com/photos/86794183@N00/138679671/
http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=16958779&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=plea-to-bt-to-spare-britain-s-least-used-phone-box--name_page.html
The story's a couple of years old, I wonder if the box survives?
The area has something of a tradition when it comes to phone box notoriety. In 1982 the next-nearest kiosk to my home, about half a mile further away at a little cluster of council houses called Bro Silyn, hit the headlines when it was found that it was being bugged. It seems that the police were attempting to uncover 'terrorist' plots being cooked up by Meibion Glyndŵr, but there was quite a furore over the dubious legality of the operation. The discovery of the bugging was made by an old chap called Moses who used to drive the taxi that took me and my brothers to school; he got a highly improbable fifteen minutes of fame out of the scandal.
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Posted Jan 29, 2008
You may well have seen this before, but I found it last night and laughed like a drain.
http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm
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A sad day for comedy
Posted Mar 1, 2006
Some very sad (and, to me at least, totally unexpected) news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4759968.stm
I've often said that there are very few female comics who can make me laugh, indeed at the risk of sounding misogynistic there are very few who don't annoy me to the point of launching myself at the off switch. There was always one notable exception, though, and she should have been making us laugh for many years more.
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