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After having carefully planned my working week to coincide with a visit to the North West to make it easier to travel to Wales, I set off from Liverpool on Thursday morning bound for Pistyll near Caernarfon to begin the third phase of the walk around the coast of Wales. At this pace, I suspect…
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Way back in the noughties I had the misfortune to work in a sixth form college. Regular readers will recall this was in the post industrial landscape that is Yorkshire. Cameron’s recent moral panic calls to mind the overbearing system of “safe guarding” that was in place at the college. I must provide some back…
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The 27th Hollowell Steam and Heavy Horse Show 2013 from stegzy gnomepants on Vimeo.
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Stopping attacks on referees will benefit Daventry’s economy & employment situation won’t it? – http://ow.ly/lIGIe
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Abraxas by Santana Sometimes I wonder if anyone is still actually reading these entries as I persevere to listen to my album collection in alphabetical order. But do you know? Part of me like to think that long forgotten LJ flisters might still be reading or random people might be coming across these…
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A’arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming by Therion Back in the good old late nineties, Scandinavian metal and rock bands started to experiment with their sound. Whilst the likes of Nightwish and Within Temptation experimented with female operatics, Therion went the whole hog and opted for a full choir. Curiously it works. A’arab Zaraq Lucid…
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A World We Pretend by Twilight Garden Every so often I come across a band in my library and I think “How the hell did I ever get this?” Twilight Garden are one of those bands. They are a curious cross of Depeche Mode, the Cure and maybe a tiny bit…
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A Metal Tribute to Abba – Various Artists It’s been a while. Sorry. Anyway, back to the project, and what a start. Possibly one of the best compilations I have in my library. The Metal Tribue To Abba compilation never fails to raise a smile on faces as a group of (mostly) European metal…
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Dear BBC, I notice that you are increasing the regularity of the appearance of people who seem to be experts on everything and have opinions on everything which, for some reason, you think reflects society at large. I would like to offer my services as a gobshite. I too have strong opinions on everything from…
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I suppose my first job was as a paper boy for D Browns in Woolton Village. Browns is still there. D Brown, is not. Browns is a traditional newsagent. It’s still going purely because it is the first shop on the way to the bus stop from a girls secondary school. Indeed, when half past…
