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More Poppies

June 29, 2008 6

I’ll be heading back to the UK tomorrow. In the meantime, some more poppies – this time contre-jour. Tags: photography

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More Photography

June 25, 2008 1

I’m still too busy to blog properly, so another photograph. Tags: photography, larzac

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A Plague of Tree Inspectors

June 23, 2008 6

Via JuliaM, we get this story in the Telegraph: Homeowners could have to pay a specialist to regularly examine their garden trees, under proposals for […]

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Time Out

June 19, 2008 6

Blogging has been light this past few days. I’m in France and dial-up is sufficiently painful to keep web browsing to a minimum. Not to […]

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This is What They Think of You

June 16, 2008 2

Via Ian, posting over at the Devil’s Kitchen, This: Referenda and Democracy The EU has now accumulated significant (bad) experiences with referenda. It was very […]

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Just in Case…

June 16, 2008 7

…you thought the Tories are any better than Labour, this little gem comes along: Householders will be encouraged to compete to be ‘greener than the […]

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Loathsome

June 14, 2008 8

Luke Akehurst. Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate – preferably a recently […]

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Ireland Votes “No”

June 13, 2008 3

It is looking very much as if the “no” vote took the day in Ireland. Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across […]