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With respect to the NoKA Chocolate Article I pinged my friend Rob The Foodie with the URL of the former, and he responded in a manner too cute for words: Wow. Great article… and it appears you’ve drawn in the actual perps to your comments 🙂 The whole “snakeoil” / “security by obscurity” thing comes

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Links below; if the annotations are not done before you read this, forgive me. They’ll be sorted. Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day

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I have a “shite old bike” (TM) which is defined by it’s characteristic of being a bit grubby and naff, and therefore likely to still be at the railway station when I get home in the evening. Specifically it’s a 21-speed 1992 Raleigh Amazon bicycle with cheap-ass Shimano 100GS shifters/cables, and Shimano BL-200 centre-pull brakes.

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If you’re into chocolate and are in the USA, read this – particularly the linked article – because it’s eye-opening. $2,080 per pound, for remoulded couverture? Eek!

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If he can ride a bike, he can present TV. More Top Gear soon. Yay! I am waiting until the New Year. BBC News Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said it was “fantastic” to ride a motorbike for the first time since his near-fatal jet-car crash in September. He told Motorcycle News he had

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I feel bad. Alas.

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I grew up with a phone exactly like this. It was a pain to use. If you were phoning into local radio quiz competitions, you had to use a pen to dial since the dialer holes were too small and wore your finger out. It got chucked when my parents exchange went DTMF. Apparently it

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…whilst going on vacation to Canada with the family:- SCHOOL IN CHELTENHAM I went to school in Cheltenham At a fashionable Ladies’ College Where I learnt what’s what And acquired a lot of Exceedingly practical knowledge Our reading; writing, ‘rithmetic Was positively mediocre But we got pretty slick At the three card trick And we

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I’ve just been out on the Trice – a cool, fresh, slightly overcast sky, riding over to see Simon & Helen to retreive a piece of coal so Dave can do the first-footer thing at a New Year’s party coming up. According to my speedo I did 6.66 miles in 44 minutes, with a top

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(Via) Culture-bound syndrome of the day: “Paris Syndrome”. This is a condition affecting Japanese tourists who travel to Paris, romantic scenes from Amélie in their minds, only to discover that the city is considerably dirtier and-shock, horror-full of very rude people. This shock can cause a psychiatric breakdown: An encounter with a rude taxi driver,

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