At Least Something Is Getting Better
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Eleven years ago, I posted a blog venting my displeasure with the England
football team of the time, and I haven’t watched another match until last
week....
Promises will be broken
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Abnormally low temperatures and high winds are not a good recipe for
horticultural work. Thats the prognosis for the next few days. So I have
moved many ...
Closer to home UPDATED
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Saturday I was very relieved because our daughter arrived home. She had
been on a language study trip for a week. In Italy. Naturally I have been
watchi...
AN INNOCENT ABROAD
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*Mont Orgeuil CastleClick on any image for a larger version*
I am very proud of that photo of Mont Orgeuil which I took in Jersey (CI)
in 1961. It's not...
All At Sea
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Fire crew and lifeboat crew are two vocations only suitable for genuine
heroes and heroines, and fully deserve immense respect from everybody.
However, the...
Just Ask The Damn Question
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THE BBC AND JIMMY SAVILE:
COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
Yes – Because it’s Happening Now.
“Everybody would say, ‘what evidence have you got?’ I would say, ‘we...
Disgusted by Police Cruel Dog Killing
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How would you react had it been your beloved pet that they had so callously
run down & murdered? Just what sort of example is this to give to our
children ...
Southpaw (2015)
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Free Southpaw in High Definition FormatNow you can download full Southpaw
in best quality with duration 123 Min and was published in 2015-07-24 and
MPAA r...
Beauty and the Beast
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This is a piece that I wrote for the Jersey Evening Post series entitled
"Beauty and the Beast". We were asked to describe two buildings in Jersey -
one b...
Coastal Walk to Corbiere - Gorse Dodder
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Gorse Dodder
*Gorse Dodder (Cuscata epithymum) *
A tangled mass of slender, reddy-coloured threads draped over gorse or
heathers; tiny, pale...
10,000 comments
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Last night the 10,000th comment was posted on this blog. Appropriately
enough, it was the question which asked what exactly Mr Kevin Delaney has
done to ke...
Letter to St Helier ratepayers
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Dear Ratepayer
The annual sending out of Rates Assessment notices, which are not a request
for payment but notification of how your rates bill will be calcu...
50 - Final Blog of the Series
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing and when I reflect back to the start of this
awful mess I fully realise that the timing for this event could not have
been w...
The Politics Hour - Is That All We Get???
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I have been away from this “project” for a long time – firstly due to work
commitments, then due to a quasi-despair at the poor level of the debate
amongst...
Nearly 5 years later.....
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Still the case is ongoing..... An offer has been made by the defendants
which has been 'on the table' for quite some period of time for the sum of
£1500. H...
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An award – for an outstanding contribution to the accountancy profession
Accounting, Richard Murphy, Uncategorized Add comments
Oct042012
When I mentione...
Jersey election statistics 2011
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On 19 October Jersey will go to the polls to vote for Constables, Deputies
and Senators on the same day for the first time. There are 82 candidates up
for ...
Coffee - Good or Bad - The age old debate!
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So the other day I was working with a friend in the University Library when
we were disrupted by an irate Librarian as she punished someone for
drinking co...
Hell Bent...and Hell Deserving
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Those who are not privileged to call themselves Old Victorians can only
imagine the pride and sense of entitlement that is imparted on donning the
blazer o...
Hope and Pain: An Easter Message
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This is a copy of an article I wrote for Seen & Unseen, the online magazine
of the Centre for Cultural Witness at Lambeth Palace. When I felt a twinge
in m...
Cy Town (1931 - 2024)
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It has been reported that the actor Cy Town has passed away. Not a familiar
name to most people, but we *Doctor Who* fans know him as one of the
principa...
Developing a new tort for climate change
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Michael John Smith (appellant) v Fronterra Co-operative group Ltd and
others [2024] NZSC 5 This appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court concerned
strike ...
Opinion – 27 March 2024
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Simon Cross Modern Church Looking for what is Becoming Fergus Butler-Gallie
Church Times Give us a quiche, and other church offerings “Hospitality
should...
The extraordinary climate events of 2022-24
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by Javier Vinós The unlikely volcano, the warmest year, and the collapse of
the polar vortex. The climate events of 2022-24 have been were truly
extraordin...
Restoring the Name: Shabbat Zachor 5784 / 2024
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Most of Megillat Esther reads like a soap opera, full of banquets and
beauty pageants and assassination plots and nemeses. There’s a theme of
topsy-turvine...
Mega City Book Club 254: Big Dave
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Peter McKinney joins the book club to help me tackle the most controversial
strip in the history of the galaxy's greatest comic. It's time to talk
about ...
Talking of friendship
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‘I no longer call you servants but friends.’ I have a theory. My theory is
that most of our institutions are in a state of utter chaos, crisis even,
and th...
The Great Divorce
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Back again after lockdown when, I guess, all our lives were rather taken up
with other things.
So perhaps to ‘start’ again, something from Jack :
‘Ther...
THE DONKEY
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*WHEN fishes flew and forests walked*
*And figs grew upon thorn,*
*Some moment when the moon was blood*
*Then surely I was born.*
*With monstrous head a...
Saying Goodbye - Madge
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It's been a while since I last posted anything on here - so hello again to
everyone who stumbles upon this blog!
A lot has happened. My son arrived, six ye...
Doctor Who: Arachnids in the UK
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In a recent interview, Mandip Gill (the actress who plays Yaz on Doctor
Who) was asked: “If you could go anywhere in the TARDIS, where would you
go?” Her a...
Dreame on
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The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's
Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsummer Night's
Dream - i...
Revolution, Evolution or Good Disagreement?
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This post is prompted by a number of things that have left me pondering how
as Christians we are to bring about change in our churches. When we
strongly b...
In Our Time: The Borgias
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It seems from the three scholars sat around studio 50E that there is no
proof of incest, either between father and daughter or between brother and
sister; ...
Data Protection Stupity
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I normally desperately try to avoid any contact with any call centre unless
I really have to and today's experiences remind me why.
Having just moved to ne...
Order of Beetroot,Onions and Turnips
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I am please to announce the Order of Beetroot,Onions and Turnips or O.B.O.T
for short.
I am the chosen chief as voted by a select group of root vegetables.
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