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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

I don’t usually have difficulty with the English language, but I am at a loss to understand a word now. A report in the DT today mentions that David Beckham was ‘mulleted’. Does that mean that he wore spurs, had a fish in his mouth, or what?

A Father Daughter conversation:
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Continue reading “The Political Divide Explained”

Spencer Davis Group – Nobody knows you.

The BBC claims that the average reader in Britain has read only six of the following 100 books. I am horrified if this is at all accurate. I am ashamed to say I have not read 56 of them, and most of those I have read were in the first 25 years of my life probably… Continue reading “Britain’s literacy rates…correction: Illiteracy rates”

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Mission Complete – Thanks Everyone!

Ryanair service so bad even Hitler won’t fly them

via Ryanair service so bad even Hitler won’t fly them.

Be warned, the language translation is Anglo-Saxon at its most forthright, but sums up Ryanair pretty well. No wonder they are trying to haul down the site!

My Granddaughter’s ballet class – she’s four and as scatter-brained as any four-year old. Typical little girl – loves pink. When I bought her a computer for her birthday, the main technical specification was that it had to be pink. (Fortunately, Sony Vaios come in pink.)

She does love her ballet class, though – I think the concentration shows 🙂 Though I’m not quite sure why she is, apparently, being tortured.

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