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Full of fishy goodness. Thursday, March 04, 2010. A brief footnote to the previous post. You might remember from this earlier post. That I claimed to have met Dick Francis once, and indeed I have. It was in very similar circumstances to the Sebastian Faulks meeting, in that it was at a book-signing session at the bookshop in Newbury where I used to work during university holidays. This particular session was to promote Francis' 27th novel The Edge. So it would have been 1988 or 1989. The Edge. Since I wa...

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electrichalibut.co.uk: I've started so I'll finish

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Full of fishy goodness. Friday, July 24, 2015. I've started so I'll finish. Quick follow-up on a couple of earlier posts:. I should have mentioned during the Pride And Prejudice. Review that this is another book that I bought many many years ago (25 years plus, I should think) and once started reading but never finished. Previous books in that category on this list are On The Road. And The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. I really should have remembered Pride And Prejudice. View my complete profile. Cheese...

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electrichalibut.co.uk: celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Full of fishy goodness. Friday, July 31, 2015. Celebrity lookeylikey of the day. And comic actress Sally Phillips. Pictures carefully chosen as they only really look alike when they're smiling, largely because they've both got a short upper lip frenulum which produces a little point in the middle of the top lip when they do a full teeth-revealing grin. I spot these little things so that you don't have to. Here's Martha Wainwright doing a very slinky version of When The Day is Short. Platitude Of The Day.

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electrichalibut.co.uk: great big number twos

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Full of fishy goodness. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Great big number twos. I was interested to discover which songs had kept the five Queen number 2 hits I referred to in the previous post off the top slot, and, having done that, made the unwarranted inference that you'd be interested too. Well, whatever, I've done the research now so you're getting it anyway. Spent two weeks at number two, the weeks of 10th. Was kept off the top spot by Showaddywaddy's Under The Moon Of Love. For one week, 5th December.

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Emma's Blog: June 2016

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Just a few homespun words. June mixed and rainy so far. Some impressive rainfall in Milton Keynes lately, accompanied variously by thunder and flash-flooding, with inevitable long traffic jams. An entire stretch of grid road was closed last week due to flooding – bizarre. Well, today is EU referendum day. Headed to Milton Keynes Christian Foundation. Luckily I don't think we're afflicted by wood boring insects, but we know who to go to if and when. For a few days from Wednesday. Where we emerged into a p...

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Emma's Blog: Further autumn miscellany: part 1

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Just a few homespun words. Further autumn miscellany: part 1. Back in October my Dell. Inspiron 1545 laptop, after a few months of slow running, miscellaneous glitches and the odd rattling noise, refused to boot altogether. I ran various diagnostics and got a variety of output messages, whose meaning I am not sure of but they didn’t look entirely positive. Since the demise of Sunrise. Have been enjoying the Google Calendar. With one of the actual receptionists. Which was nice though Ruth and I are still ...

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Emma's Blog: RIP Beau

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Just a few homespun words. Beau Beau Geste. Beau Diddley. Beau Regarde. Beau Dacious. A series of potential longer show-type names for the female bunny we only adopted in July. And who sadly died during a routine – we thought – tooth-rasping operation last Monday. As Harley has had several of these surgeries and come through fine, Ruth wasn’t too perturbed when the vets. Apparently it does happen that rabbits die under anaesthetic and it isn't always possible to pinpoint a reason. Beau (right) with Harley.

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Emma's Blog: Autumn burblechore

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Just a few homespun words. Studying another OU module as of 1 October, this time Essential mathematics 1. Have finally, after some dithering, have decided on a qualification I want to aim for: am going for the DipHE in Computing and IT and Statistics. Can count My digital life. The module I did last year, towards it, but sadly am obliged to do a maths module as the next compulsory module at Level 1. Very glad I studied the slightly easier Discovering mathematics. Also started trying to use the Headspace.

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Emma's Blog: September 2016

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Just a few homespun words. Beau; RIP tree. As of the beginning of July, we have a new female bunny Beau. Harley had been on his own since Willow’s death in July last year. But Ruth had reached the conclusion that it might be best for him to have another companion. As before we went along to RRR. Beau (left) and Harley being fed Fiba Sticks. Sandra apologised for her masculine name but both Ruth and I are fine with it and have no intention of renaming her Belle. Or just making a donation. The tree. RIP.

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Emma's Blog: Further autumn miscellany: part 2

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Just a few homespun words. Further autumn miscellany: part 2. On 19 November Ruth and I went to the former HMP Reading. To see the exhibition. Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison. Run by the arts organisation Artangel. Including losing his job as a senior Commissioner in the Scouts after receiving a conviction for “gross indecency” in 1974. Montague finally married his long-term partner in 2015. Aged 92. Also several paintings of a glass of water by the German artist Peter Dreher. Me in a cell.