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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Brexit means.. er.. whatever you want it to
There hasn’t been much to smile about as we watched the slow-motion car crash that is Brexit so even more politically cynical Sunday Round-up than usual.
But I did spot this Brexit UncertainTEA cupand saucer which you can use to…
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B is for Edwin "Teddy" Boston
B is for Edwin “Teddy” Boston
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 24 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
The English clergy has had its fair share of eccentrics and one such is Edwin “Teddy” Bostonwho combined his clerical duties with a life-long passion for steam engines…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Music Charts
A UK-based design shop has made it easier to visualise the development of different genres of popular music by creating ‘blueprints’ of acid house, alternative, hip-hop and electronic music.
Tasty Trees
The holiday has fizzled out and we are faced with that…
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A is for Alan Abel
A is for Alan Abel
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 24 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
Of the many people I write about, the ones who brighten up a dull world are the pranksters and there is probably none greater than serial hoaxer Alan Abel.
Abelwas…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Free from ’23
1st January was Public Domain Day 2019 when works from 1923 became free for all to use without permission or fee.
They include films such as Cecil B Demille’s The Ten Commandments, Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links and The Prophetby Kahlil Gibran –…
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Z is for Alexander Zass
Z is for Alexander Zass
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 23 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
Apart from The World’s Strongest Man, the idea of watching feats of strength for entertainment seems faintly ridiculous, but strongmen were once great box office and…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Sweet tooth
Tesco announced in 2015 that they would operate sweet-free checkouts to avoid tempting children so you can imagine how they were mocked when this mountain of chocs turned up at their Kingston store.
Surf’s up!
Six hundred surfing Santastook to the waves to…
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Y is for Tomoyuki Yamashita
Y is for Tomoyuki Yamashita
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 23 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
Tomoyuki Yamashitawas the Japanese WWII general who was ignored when he counselled against war with the United States and Britain, then commanded his country’s…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Santa Rebranded
Father Christmas has been reimagined for the modern era based on an open survey the US and UK and then voted on by 4,000 people in the same countries.
Who’s a cheeky boy
An African grey parrot has been using his owner’s Amazon Alexato play his favourite…
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X is for Father Xmas
X is for Father Xmas
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 23 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
Certain letters are getting harder to fill and none is more eXasperating than X. So yet again I have decided what could be more timely than to resurrect my post about…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Deck the halls
For an unusual piece of house bling, try the giant inflatable and illuminated bottle of Ranch dressing. And for your tree, this seasonal Star Wars Death Star tree topper.
It’s a cracker
The annual Christmas cracker joke competitionwinner is: ‘What does…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Sign of the times 1: Forget the year of the Black Death or the Spanish Flu, medieval historian Michael McCormick believes the year 536 AD was the worst to be alive when a mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness for eighteen months.
Ke…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!
Sign of the times 1: They were meant to brighten up the streets of Hull but the City Council has ordered that a multitude of handmade signs be taken down after just one complaint about the one of the left by a BMW driver.
Weighty matters: After 130 years, the definition of a
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S is for Herbert Sulzbach
S is for Herbert Sulzbach
I am again focusing on the famous, the forgotten and the misbegotten for Round 23 of the popular ABC Wednesday meme. But finding suitable characters is getting harder, so apologies in advance if there are repeats of previous posts.
Remembrance Day rightly focussed on the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War but there were those who served with distinction in both world wars and one such…
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Sunday Round-up
My round-up of news, events and stuff and nonsense that caught my eye this week. If it’s news to me, it must be news to you!‘
Divided nation: It seems that the Republicans and Democrats both won the mid-terms if the reports are to be believed. Still, at least there was some comic relief on social media.
Lazarus: Dennis Hof was elected to Nevada’s state assembly, despite owning several brothels,…
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