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Schubert Lieder
Posted Dec 18, 2005
Ian Bostridge must be the world's best at rattling them off. Great show yesterday with regular accompanist Julius Drake.
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Should come in useful
Posted Dec 16, 2005
Today 16th December I won a super prize in a free draw at the British Council Information Centre in Vienna - a copy of the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
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Latest book bargains
Posted Dec 14, 2005
Today 14th December found the following second-hand books priced at €1.00c each in a pre-Christmas clearout: A Moment of War - Laurie Lee, The Last Three Minutes - Prof. Paul Davies, With Your Tongue Down My Throat - Hanif Kureishi and others, Money - Richard Rayner and others.
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Tookie Williams
Posted Dec 13, 2005
This day, 13th December 2005, Tookie Williams was killed by the authorities in San Quentin after being incarcerated for 25 years. Tookie was nominated for the Nobel Prize, having written several books about gang violence. I'm sad about the death of Tookie. It's a black day for us all.
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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday..
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