Tag Archives: uk

Searching, for that something that I’ll never find…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

(with apologies to China Black) Just occasionally, I check to see what serach terms have been used to find 6000 miles… over the last few weeks. They’re usually pretty obvious – this time there was a lot of stuff about load-shedding, that concert “next year”, the inevitable weeing on your bougainvillea and, as ever, some [...]

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Political Soundbite of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2011

We don’t do politics very often on 6000 miles…, but we are more than happy to share excellent political soundbites like this one whenever they come along: So all the UK is isolated from is an impending disaster: the eurozone will fragment with countries leaving and debt defaults. It is like being as isolated as [...]

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Private Eye on shale gas

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2011

South Africa isn’t the only country to have potentially economy-changing amounts of shale gas underneath it. The UK has some too. According to the usually politically-left In The Back section of Private Eye magazine: Cuadrilla, the gas exploration company drilling for shale gas in Lancashire, has announced its discovery of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas – a [...]

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Out of the bad

By 6000 | 6000 | August 9, 2011

Out of the bad, and it is bad – ridiculously, stupidly, embarrassingly bad – comes some good. Step forward, photoshoplooter, whereby images of heinous acts committed over the last few days are turned, via the medium of Photoshop, into embarrassing identikits of the guilty parties. I could do stuff like this. All I need is [...]

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The Last Hurrah

By 6000 | 6000 | July 21, 2010

With the World Cup over (feel eet, eet is gone), it’s time to move on to other things and I need a project to keep myself occupied now that there isn’t live football available 24/7 (at least, until the new football seasons start in a couple of weeks). So I’m turning my attention to my [...]

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