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News today that Dame Shirley Bassey is in hospital recovering from emergency surgery after experiencing stomach pains. Details are sketchy, obviously, but there is no suggestion at present that the 71 year old singing legend will not recover quickly. Shirley Bassey has been one of the UK’s best loved entertainers for the last half century … More Burley Shirley treated early!
If only as a distraction from the turmoil back here on Earth, the news that the Phoenix Mars Lander had made it down to the planets surface in one functioning piece is cause for celebration! Sadly not equipped to roam as previous lander’s, it will nonetheless conduct experiments and send back valuable information – it … More Hope for the future.
Bizarre story surfacing over in Australia suggesting our soldiers in Afghanistan are being laughed at by others of the coalition forces because they take part in a highly limited number of front line missions in which they actively engage ‘the enemy’. Whether these allegations are true or not I have no way of knowing. However, … More Travel the world, meet new people, & kill them.
Seven years after being impounded by police, the orange and white Volkswagen Kombi driven by Peter Falconio when he was killed and his girlfriend abducted has been ‘released’. As crucial evidence, it’s been kept under cover all this time but is now out on the compound with crashed and stolen vehicles waiting a decision by … More On the road again.
Life is full of tragedies. Mostly they pass us by unless you’re personally involved. Millions die all over the world from war, disease, starvation, or plain neglect and we neither know nor care, except on an impersonal; “Oh those poor people… ” sort of feeling. If we’re stirred at all, we send off our donations … More It's so much worse when you *know*.
Suppose you start up a ‘social networking’ site as a rival to Facebook and you realise the massive user base they have is sucking all your potential users away depriving you of that wonderful source of advertising income. What would you do to try to increase your membership? Advertise? Quite possibly Your problem is how, … More All publicity is good publicity!
For those of us of a ‘certain age’ one of the high spots of our young lives was the regular dose of comedy from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ which was an extremely funny if bizarre US made comedy programme, which in style might be likened to a cross between the Goons and Monty Python! The … More Dick Martin dies aged 86.
It’s really time I started a new site to log all the idiotic things councils in the UK (and elsewhere?) do in the guise of upholding the law. Trouble is I’d do nothing all day but fill the site in as the floods of complaints pour in! The latest in the long line of loonie … More More dripping!
Following on from the furore about the exploitation of 12 year old girls by using them in sexually explicit photography, we now have the case of a 12 year old girl in Victoria who told a judge that she thinks she is a boy and is being allowed to change her sex!! Amazing though it … More Kids grow up so fast these days!
Pity this poor couple on May 12th 2008. The girl in the wedding dress has just been married, she steps outside the church to have her photo taken by Wang Qiang and as he takes the snaps there is a distant rumble… … the distant rumble gets closer then stones fall of the church and … More Did the earth move for you Nancy?
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