Category Archives: from the blogroll

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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Zebra & Giraffe – The Knife

By 6000 | 6000 | April 22, 2009

I have been listening to a lot of Zebra & Giraffe recently, possibly due to their fantastic performance at CokeZeroFest. This is a great example of their New Order meets The Cure at a local pub and a young Depeche Mode drop in and join them both for a swift Red Bull or two before heading off [...]

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Good luck Pammie!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2009

While I’m not lazing in bed on Sunday, 6000 miles…regular and blogrollee, Ordinary Life (aka Pamie Jane), will be spending (she hopes) around 14½ hours swimming, cycling and running around and around the sleepy village of Port Elizabeth in the Ironman South Africa triathlon. For those of you who are wondering, that’s: 3.8km swim (through shark-infested [...]

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