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A game of two halves... and two balls!
Feb 20, 2008

Being a sucker for odd traditions I've always wanted to see this event, but I see that this year's event has been the subject of controversy. Whether 'cheating' is, strictly speaking, possible in a game with (almost) no rules I'm not sure!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7246647.stm

I love this quote from another page: "What rules there are say motor vehicles are not allowed and manslaughter is illegal"

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In those days it took tens and twos...
Feb 16, 2008

Just found this reference to the UK's 'least used phone box'. It presumably gained this dubious distinction since I stopped using it on a regular basis when I lived just up the lane in the Eighties. For some reason the kiosk was sited in a field rather than on the road, an odd arrangement I've never seen anywhere else. I often used it to call my friends rather than have to beg the use of the house phone and have my conversation overheard by my parents.

http://flickr.com/photos/86794183@N00/138679671/

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk...east-used-phone-box--name_page.html

The story's a couple of years old, I wonder if the box survives?

The area has something of a tradition when it comes to phone box notoriety. In 1982 the next-nearest kiosk to my home, about half a mile further away at a little cluster of council houses called Bro Silyn, hit the headlines when it was found that it was being bugged. It seems that the police were attempting to uncover 'terrorist' plots being cooked up by Meibion Glyndŵr, but there was quite a furore over the dubious legality of the operation. The discovery of the bugging was made by an old chap called Moses who used to drive the taxi that took me and my brothers to school; he got a highly improbable fifteen minutes of fame out of the scandal.

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No Subjekt
Jan 29, 2008

You may well have seen this before, but I found it last night and laughed like a drain.

http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm

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A sad day for comedy
Mar 1, 2006

Some very sad (and, to me at least, totally unexpected) news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4759968.stm

I've often said that there are very few female comics who can make me laugh, indeed at the risk of sounding misogynistic there are very few who don't annoy me to the point of launching myself at the off switch. There was always one notable exception, though, and she should have been making us laugh for many years more.

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Well, here we go again.
Nov 27, 2005

I'm on the move again, so it looks like I'll be offline for at least a couple of weeks.

Frankly, I wouldn't even be considering this move if it wasn't for a particularly badly thought-out company reorganisation during the summer. I'm heading back to my old territory in South Devon, so at least I know I'll feel at home, and I'll be working with people I know, respect and like. I'll really miss Sidmouth, though - I hope that A6092480 will act as my tribute to somewhere that's become very special to me, although I had little idea when I wrote it that it would also be my farewell. I've spent much of the last couple of days revisiting favourite walks, looking on favourite views, even having a last cuppa in my favourite caff! Of course, I can always visit again in the future, but it's somehow not the same once you don't belong to a place any more.

Anyway, see you all soon, once my new pad is sorted out.

The road goes ever on and on...

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