Category Archives: from the blogroll

The importance of twitter explained

By 6000 | 6000 | June 15, 2009

A common complaint of Twitter users is the assumptions made about Twitter and Twitter users by non-Twitter users. Twitter does have many different uses depending on what you want to get out of it, whether it is organising get-togethers, discussing or seeking solutions to technical problems, sharing photos and news stories in real time, promoting [...]

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Marmoset Monday

By 6000 | 6000 | June 8, 2009

I very much doubt that this will become a regular feature on 6000 miles…, so enjoy this one while you can. It’s the slightly belated South African version of Baby Marmoset Friday and (as you can read) probably came from here. In actual fact, the author of that second post then traced it back to somewhere else and [...]

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A couple of Micklethwaits

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2009

I was drawn to Brian Micklethwait’s blog archives in search of this staircase (don’t ask) and while there, started reading and stumbled upon these photographs taken in Bethnel Green last February.    As I have mentioned before, I enjoy Brian’s photography. It’s unpretentious, often imaginative, sometimes cheeky, occasionally rather clever. And then explained or narrated in much [...]

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Red wine and web chat

By 6000 | 6000 | May 17, 2009

I have just spent a very pleasant afternoon with Ian MacDonald of SA The Good News, two bottles of rather decent red wine* and our respective families. Which, with the toddler to adult ratio of 3:4, kept us fairly busy chasing around the house and garden. And slightly overdoing the steaks as a result. Sorry [...]

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What’s the problem?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 29, 2009

Oh, this one makes me proud to be English. From here, via here. A 29-STONE mum who feeds her eight-month old triplets with McDonald’s has insisted she is bringing the tots up in the “best way she can”. Leanne Salt, 24, said she is “too busy” to properly feed daughters Deanna and Daisy and son [...]

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