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Colover Crisis 10 Aug 2013 | 12:54 pm
Sometimes, just one word chosen tells you all you really need to know. In this case that word was 'predatory' . Neil Wilson, 41, had admitted sexual activity with a child of 13. The trial had been h...
Potatoes which look like Hitler 9 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
Hitler discovered hiding in a spud Frank Jacobs has the proper word for this: pareidolia and has collected startling examples.
Job of the Month - Miniature Steam Railway Engineer/Driver 3 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Trago Mills Railway - picture from Trago Mills website Trago Mills, my favourite store in Devon and Cornwall, offers this beauty at their family fun park in Newton Abbot, if you have the engineering ...
Careers Advice for Under-cover Operators 28 Jun 2013 | 01:43 am
PC Huggable As the row over under-cover police having sex with activists rumbles on, the Usual Caveats says prosecutors would decide whether operatives who had sexual relationships were breaking th....
The Death Penalty 23 May 2013 | 01:14 am
There is a parallel between the 1965 vote on the abolition of the death penalty and the 2013 vote on same sex marriage. The vote on same-sex marriage went 366 in favour to 161 against. That is, appro...
Plays of the Century 13 May 2013 | 02:27 am
A pair of plays bracket the boom years of the end of the 20th century. The first is Glengarry Glen Ross, the David Mamet Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece which had its world premier in London in 19...
Tall Ship's Official Seal 9 May 2013 | 06:09 pm
This is the Official Seal of the tall ship Mercedes, a brig on which I had the honour to sail at Easter. When I say 'sail' I mean I sat there as excited as a ship's dog and they did all the rope work...
Switzerland News 29 Apr 2013 | 01:42 pm
As can be seen from the diagram on My Favourite Wiki, Switzerland is not a member of the EU but in 2000 it signed the Agreement on Free Movement of Persons with the European Union. (Reports the Indepe...
Follies - Pied Pipers 26 Apr 2013 | 07:18 pm
The best excuse for watching a pile of old musicals on DVD is that you are swotting in preparation for a Sondheim. Then on to Cambridge for the Pied Pipers production of his 1971 elegy on the lost wo...
Footloose - Irving Stage Company 24 Apr 2013 | 10:04 pm
To the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds for the opening night of Footloose performed by the Irving Stage Company. Those who know this 1998 toe-tapper adapted from a 1984 dance movie will be familiar wi...
