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It's a Velky World: Recovered Memories
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It's a Velky World. Thursday, September 15, 2011. I enjoy taking photos, indeed at my parents' place in France there are boxes of photos I took in the dim and distant past before I got a digital camera. It is only in the last few months that I have been able to retrieve a lot of my photos because they were on the hard drive of my old laptop that died. Just round the corner from our flat was this tower and church, and we would walk by them several times a day. In the final months we lived in Prague, Mrs V...
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It's a Velky World: December 2009
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It's a Velky World. Monday, December 21, 2009. Christmas though always brings to mind the classic Christmas songs that I have always loved, and so here are a couple of them for you. Yes, I know that it is awfully cliched and cheesy - just my cup of tea! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). TheSession 118 - The Feast of Four. Ramblings on a Train of Thoughts. The Great Art Giveaway. Down on the Allotment. 30 day song challenge. Gerry and the pacemakers. Kings college chapel choir. Sixpence none the richer.
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It's a Velky World: February 2010
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It's a Velky World. Monday, February 22, 2010. I Guess I Just Ain't Good Enough. Being something of a nit picker, my first thought is "good for who? Is America good for the Palestinians living in camps being radicalised by an American backed Israel? Is America good for the poor of its own nation who can't afford health insurance, while health insurance companies lobby openly to have its own customer base dwindled to only those with enough money to pay ridiculous premiums? The family is sacred. My spo...
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It's a Velky World: May 2010
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It's a Velky World. Friday, May 07, 2010. Westminster Must Learn from Holyrood. It is clear that the "first past the post" electoral system used in the UK is unrepresentative in an age of party politics. No-one in their right mind can claim that it is a fair result when the Liberal Democrats win a 23% share of the vote and get about 50 parliamentary seats, whereas the Labour Party get a mere 6% more of the popular vote but 200 more seats than the Lib Dems. Do we go to a system of party lists, where the s...
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It's a Velky World: March 2010
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It's a Velky World. Monday, March 29, 2010. The Need for Continued Reform. This brings me to my second reform for the political world, an end to having a "lifetime of service" by limiting the number of terms a person can serve in a given political office, one way of achieving this could be done by enforcing political retirement at 65, which would also have the added benefit of the political system becoming less dominated by old men, which is never a bad thing really. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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It's a Velky World: 30 Day Song Challenge - Day 27
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It's a Velky World. Monday, May 09, 2011. 30 Day Song Challenge - Day 27. Given that I can't play any musical instrument, today's theme of "a song you wish you could play" is pretty pointless. However, I wish I could play some form of bagpipe, so these tracks showcase a form of pipe. Track 1 - "The Dreaming of the Bones" by Davy Spillane, featuring Sinead O'Connor. Davy Spillane is one of the world's leading uillean pipe players, a master of the ethereal wail which is so haunting. The Great Art Giveaway.
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It's a Velky World: My Thoughts. Exactly.
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It's a Velky World. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. My Thoughts. Exactly. Pretty much every conversation with someone new, and quite a few existing friends, in the last few weeks has involved, at some point, a single subject. As sure as night follows day, I have been asked a variation on the following question:. Do you think Scotland will become independent? Throughout much of the campaign I have felt like King Agrippa, faced with the arguments of Saint Paul and responding:. They claim that the European Uni...
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It's a Velky World: Berlin
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It's a Velky World. Monday, May 12, 2008. Main Station) takes some beating – a palace of glass and metal, with a shopping mall that would put most shopping centres in Prague to shame. For the first hour or so of being in Berlin, I felt like the village idiot who had come to visit his big city cousins. And lamb which just fell apart in your mouth – in short the best restaurant meal we have had in a long time. Youd probably love Munich. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). TheSession 118 - The Feast of Four.
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It's a Velky World: September 2014
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It's a Velky World. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. My Thoughts. Exactly. Pretty much every conversation with someone new, and quite a few existing friends, in the last few weeks has involved, at some point, a single subject. As sure as night follows day, I have been asked a variation on the following question:. Do you think Scotland will become independent? Throughout much of the campaign I have felt like King Agrippa, faced with the arguments of Saint Paul and responding:. They claim that the European Uni...
