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Nourishing Obscurity WordPress has served well at a difficult time whilst the regular site was down. It’s therefore with some regret that it must be closed off for now and comments put back on moderation.
Many thanks to readers who did keep coming to N.O., albeit over here, happy Valentine’s Day and hope to see you at:
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My tribute to Valentine’s Day, dedicated to Twilight and Rossa, with a certain person in mind:
The f**king TaxPayers’ Alliance – as public sector bureaucrats describe it – is 10.
My OpEd in Thursday’s Times:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4004036.ece …
The f**king TaxPayers’ Alliance celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Formally there may be no F in the TPA’s title but across the public sector the campaigning organisation created by Matthew…
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I say all power to the F-TPA and should they cease to do as they are doing, cease to be an utterly frustrating pain in the butt, then they are not fulfilling their prime directive.
This is what democracy is all about, this is why we can still lay claim to being a superior nation and possibly it’s the only reason remaining – we are still allowed to criticize.
So I, for one, am not going to put down the F-TPA in anyway, nor The Freedom Association, nor The Bruges Group nor any of them doing a good job.
You just gotta smile. Least attractive towns at the Independent:
Slough, Birmingham, Scunthorpe
And then readers added:
Wallasey, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, York, Blackpool, Bradford, Hamilton, Maidenhead
Other lists had: Continue reading
By Wiggia:
There is something very strange going on, with the three main parties worried that UKIP might at last have enough potential votes to effect their status quo, those who in the past broadly supported the party and Farage are putting the boot in.
The reasons to a degree are valid if the minutiae of things said or printed or indeed not are examined in that way.
§ http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/it-has-been-laid-out-clearly-but/
§ http://thefrogsalittlehot.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/are-ukip-new-judas-goats.html
But in the case of those involved with the Harrogate Agenda, however laudable their intentions and plans it appears to have got personal, the constant attack from Dr Richard North on his blog and now that of his supporters at what seems every opportunity has gone beyond fair criticism and become a campaign. Continue reading
If Welby took off his frock and gave up his sin-ecures, left the church and then turned around and said this:
… then he’d be showing some sort of integrity, albeit a twisted one. But as a defender of the faith, as expressed in the two books of the bible, he is unfit for purpose and is doubly damned.
The concept of venal versus mortal sin is not so difficult. Let’s step back from the religious and look at it in society in general. If you do something wrong, e.g. an affair, then that is venal – it is weakness of the flesh, it can be forgiven.
If you try to lead someone else into that, knowing it to be wrong, then that is mortal. Welby must know his bible and yet he speaks things anathema to that bible. So he is failing to fulfil that which he was appointed to do.
Which level of Dante’s hell would he find himself at?
Call me soft and insipid, maybe gaga in my approaching age but I can see both sides in that little contretemps with Twilight and Amfortas over Bridges of Madison County.
I’ve not watched it but have seen stills, so had to go to Wiki, which concludes:
It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion—the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that won’t be rejected, of debating what to do when the erotic heat matures into love light. What is the effect of an affair on a woman who has been faithful to her husband, and on a rootless man who only now realizes he needs the one woman he can have but not hold?” Corliss concludes “Madison County is Eastwood’s gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he’s loved before …
P-h-e-e-e-w-w [let’s breath slowly out]. Where to start? Continue reading
This headline:
Arwen and Aragorn’s romance nearly didn’t happen
… illustrates the need, for the mainstream, to have some sort of romance in film or music. Continue reading
19:00: Still pretty wild but unless it gets worse, signing off from this post. Going to bed early to watch Clara er the last Doctor Who – The Name of the Doctor. Boat’s still solid. New bed’s nice too.
18:00: Raining inside my place onto the bags, thinks beginning to break out there on the house, seems to be getting stronger. How are the commuters at this time?
17:06: First loss of power, came back on. I’ll blog till it dies. My place is right at the point the elements hit – top of large mansion. Oops, power just went again.
17:01: Sky over river opaque, water scudding across the water and other water scudding across that. Not dry. Was talking today to locals about flooding possibilities – how could it, they asked – everything is a waterway around here, taking it out to sea. Just had a bad gust come through and almost took the roof off. Lots of fun.
16:43: Hit like a smackeroo blurby, branches straining – actually flapping – things flying about in the yard, boat as solid as a rock.
You might have forgotten this post about the new age we’re now in.
Recapitulation:
It represented two taped interviews recorded in 1988,the recollections of Dr. Lawrence Dunegan regarding a lecture he attended on March 20, 1969 at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Paediatric Society. There is then a third tape transcribed.
The meeting was addressed by Dr. Richard Day (who died in 1989) who at the time was Professor of Paediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. Previously he had served as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Continue reading
Was just in town now and did something profligate – took a taxi. Did the doings and laden with bags, went to return by taxi, not bringing the phone with me but chancing the taxi rank.
Trouble with the rank is it’s a fair way off and though downhill in the out direction, to walk back to town is uphill. Should have known when I saw a dozen people waiting down there. We all thought the taxis were parked the other side of the precinct where they’re guaranteed higher fares.
Eventually one came and once inside, I asked him why no taxis for half an hour. There are, he said – you’re in one.
Then he said that everyone was calling for them because Prince Charles had said something or someone else had about 80mph winds up this way around 13:00 today. It’s 12:25 now. Driver said everyone panicked and rushed out to get shopping in – I wondered why the shops were full on a Wednesday, usually a slow day in town.
Now how effing stupid to rush out like that. I mean – people are rightly called sheep.
I checked the Beeb just before going and it said 30mph and rain – not an issue. It was my regular shopping day anyway. So there are all these people in blind panic over not having enough food when their fridges and freezers are crammed.
For the record, I bought some mince and Dover sole, as well as the core items – veg, fruit.
And choc.
UPDATE
OK, I take it back – there are warnings and it has started out there:
I admit it’s fanciful but doesn’t it seem interesting – south and south-east get it and we escape. So, someone orders it for up here and contacts the media and then, on cue, it hits the parts of England which missed out on the past few weeks’ mayhem.
Reading the Beeb blurb, seems we could be losing our power – this was the main idea, of course. There are two more scheduled posts today at NO but if you see no more after 5 p.m. or if I miss a Skype schedule or whatever, you’ll know why – I’ve been killed by a giant branch crashing through the roof and skewering me to the floor.
It will be interesting to see if the North East has its turn in a few weeks. By the way, it just started raining from the ceiling in this flat. I’ve put out the bucket and sponges and have the sandbags at the ready.
See you when I do.
