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This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
This obituary was posted in teh Daily telegraph yesterday http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9773265/Bob-Munden.html Bob Munden, who I had never heard of till now, impressed me because of his amazing skills and because as I recently wrote, my childhood was dominated by cowboys. However, what impressed me even more was the paragraph in the obituary below, which described how competetive he was, but […]
MoreThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
MoreI was listening to Radio 4 and caught the tail end of the numbers programme ‘More or Less’; it’s not something I usually listen to, but it’s not a programme I would turn off. I was intrigued by a little item about important numbers for 2012, so for example there was 17, the least number of clues you need to […]
MoreEvery day I get an Irish word emailed to me… this is all part of my attempt to learn Gaelic which I have been struggling with for several years. Talk Irish, Labhair Gaeilge is a great site to help people learn Gaelic! http://talkirish.com/ Today’s word is ‘ceol‘, music, and if I link to the page […]
MoreThis just looked so pretty on a gloomy evening a few days before Christmas! Cecil Walker’s is a gentleman’s outfitter’s which now has a ladies’ section too… lovely but beyond my pocket!
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Lois Elsden 