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Bridget‘s back in town, briefly returned from the Italy she now calls home in order to manage some photoshoots to illustrate a book upon which she is working. There now follows an extract from our evening’s conversation back in her supposedly four-star hotel room, after a decidedly mediocre-to-poor hotel meal and our respective glasses of

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I was popping down the pub last night, early evening, and hearing what sounded like a cross between a two-stroke scooter engine and a microlight, saw a biplane flying over the village. My home’s close proximity to Farnborough means that we get a lot of odd aircraft, but this one looked older than most –

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Ding, dong, …

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Ok, so let’s get this straight – the US Government is suppressing more of the material from Abu Ghraib, apparently including videos of buggery by soldiers of prisoners, and the ACLU are having to bring a case against the US Government, because the latter’s rationale for not releasing the material (and thereby bringing people to

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I’ve seen some right berks who get “surprised” by a GATSO in roadworks, and the result can be terrifying, so the following does not surprise me very much: [groups.yahoo.com] PR233: Hidden report reveals serious speed camera dangers News: for immediate release TRL report number 595, commissioned by the Highways Agency and delivered in early 2004,

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Hello, yes, we are playing with CSS in the sidebar, making it enlarge and shrink active text in a dynamic fashion as you mouse-over it. We apologise for any breakdown in our traditional in-house minimalistic style which may occur for the next few weeks, whilst experimentation is in progress.

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…and also of my home town’s local condiment; my Dad introduced me to the current Lord Sandys a few years ago (Dad was his local/county councillor) and it’s nice to have the story that I heard then, retold: Its story begins in 1835, when Marcus, Lord Sandys, returned to Worcester after a stint as Governor

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[www.waitrose.com] The Nutella story starts in 1946 and a small Italian town called Alba. At the time, cocoa was rationed and so, in an attempt to make chocolate more economical, pastry maker, Pietro Ferrero (yes, there is going to be a link with ambassadors), mixed cocoa with hazelnuts and vegetable oils. The result was a

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Well I’ve not done one of these postings for a while, but the last two week’s crop has been rather high in the weirdness stakes, and so here’s a (edited for weirdness) list of search-engine queries which have landed on this weblog in the past two weeks. I’ve annotated a handful of them shagging woods

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You know that you’ve been changed by working in Financial Services when you read a headline like: [today.reuters.com] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four banks are buying a combined 25 percent equity stake in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange for a total of $19 million, the fourth largest U.S. equity options exchange said on Tuesday. …and you

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Subject: British Airways onboard catering update From: British Airways Executive Club <BA@BritishAirways.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:48:45 +0100 (BST) Dear Mr Muffett, As you are a valued customer to British Airways, I would like to provide you with an update on the current problems we are experiencing with our onboard catering, due to unofficial

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