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Time is running out for Akmal. Please join the campaign to try to save Akmal’s life by writing to Gordon Brown and the Chinese Ambassador to the UK Madam Fu Ying using the text below: “Dear Prime Minister Brown and Ambassador Fu Ying, I write to express my deep concern for Akmal Shaikh, who faces [...]
Recently, I’ve been spending time going through dusty boxes and transferring to my hard drive demo and rehearsal tapes of my old bands. Such was the lack of acclaim and clamour for more – strangely reminiscent of the actual times themselves – I decided now would be as good a time as any to [...]
I posted yesterday about a visitor to my home – a golden Autumn leaf specked with raindrops – and took some nice photos of it. I connected it to some reminiscences I’d had about a crying boy in my childhood. During this time, I also had to reset the time and date on my camera to [...]
Yesterday, I took some photos of the golden Autumn leaves outside my window. This morning, it was miserable weather, rain and wind, and there were more leaves than ever before on the ground as well as swirling around. Overnight, the leaves seem to have become even richer in colour (or is that just me messing [...]
How To Make Pizza (In 36 Easy Steps And Two Hours!) http://post.ly/95kR Uncle dmarsd : How To Make Pizza (In 36 Easy Steps And Two Hours!) Splendid! Apologies in advance for auto-posting twice everywhere my next dent/tweet #idiot #sorry dmarsd : Apologies in advance for auto-posting twice everywhere my next dent/tweet #idiot #sorry Time for me to review [...]
I’m posting this to give people who want to write some idea what you can say to personalise your email. The quoted bit is Reprieve’s standar email. I added the bit below in bold. From David Marsden <david.marsden@enfieldclubhouse.org.uk>To Andrew Love MPSubject URGENT: protect Akmal ShaikhMessage Dear Andy Love, MP I am very concerned at the plight of [...]
I am rapt! Tight and warm in my sleeping bag, I stare out at the night sky. Everything is perfectly clear. My fellow hikers are nearby and in the distance we can hear coyotes. They are neither barking nor howling, something in between. Calling to each other. Louder. LOUDER! In the corner of my eye I can [...]
This is really a follow-up to my earlier Once A Red, Always A Red post from three and a half years ago. I was going to leave it as a comment to Andy’s reply to my original post, but figured it probably merited it’s own permalink! The only United match I’ve been to in recent years [...]
As it’s almost four years and three months to the very day since the 7/7 London bombings, I thought this was as good a time as any to look back into the internet archive and see what I was thinking and blogging about then. I guess what’s got me thinking about this is the recent events [...]
via current.com So we bailed out the banks so they can continue to fund the “War on Terror” and keep the likes of Tony Blair in a job as the Middle East “Peace” Envoy. Posted via web from David Marsden
Pompey Manager, Paul Hart: Chad: I really like Paul Hart as a football manager. He does great interviews, thoughtful with an understated, wry sense of humour and realism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8227381.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7889082.stm Posted via web from davidmarsden’s posterous
Ok, I know I’m a little behind the “News” here in my own little world. But, hey, so what? To be honest, I try to avoid watching or reading the “News” whenever possible. It’s bad for my anxiety. A couple of months ago I read the copy of The Times that was delivered free with our Ocado [...]
Jonathan Naess writes in The Guardian on Christine Laird’s “victory” over her bullying bosses at Cheltenham Council. His excellent piece highlights all the main issues around discrimination faced by people with a history of mental health problems trying to get jobs. But one thing stands out to me: “She spent three months in a psychiatric hospital [...]
I tried to Spot The Pie in last week’s edition of The Times in order to win a month’s supply of Brampton’s Pies. How many pies is that? I couldn’t find the damned thing anywhere, though. Who ate all the pies? Then I looked at The Times’ Football columnist Patrick Barclay.
Shocking news in the londonpaper tonight, which reveals Andy Murray’s new neighbours to be “Ashley and Cheryl Cole, John Terry and Didier Drogba”. Meanwhile, over the page, we were treated to the sight of JT apparently taking out his own son who then proceeds to dive in the manner of Didier Drogba!
“Kaiserslautern were obviously missing bruised testicle victim – Youri Djorkaeff – and you feel one good ball from him could make all the difference.” From Nutshell – October 99 to November 99I was actually at this game (the first leg at White Hart Lane) and remember feeling quite deflated to discover during the pre-match announcement of [...]
I didn’t have any particularly strong feelings about London Mayor Boris YeltsinJohnson’s Barmy Booze Ban on public transport, which came into effect on 1 June this year. I don’t drink alcohol on Tubes and buses, mainly because they don’t have toilets. I do, however, enjoy an occasional can of Stella on my way home from work [...]
Ok, I’ve had a couple of glasses of Red. From tonight’s London Lite: Al Murray is Luiz Felipe Scolari’s new Assistant Coach. Mr Murray, 40, formerly known as Butch Peter, football blah blah blah. Now, how many Italian-speaking personnel are there at Chelsea? Cudicini? Mourinho? Shevchenko? Really, Ray’s skills would be better employed at West Ham, surely – Zola, [...]
OK, so I may be a little slow on the uptake around here, but, aahh, at least I’m not alone, er…, or the leader of a world superpower, for that matter…. Great Pixies soundtrack to go with a gentle Bush-bashing.
Yesterday I experienced what I believe to be possibly a Divine Intervention. A Child of God approached me while I was waiting for a bus and asked me if I was in the mood to talk about Jesus Christ? What did I think about Jesus? Before I could answer, as if by magic, my bus [...]
I’m sure it’s only me, but I swear Jose must have enjoyed watching Columbo as a young boy growing up in Portugal…. It’s been a bit like that this season for United fans with Jose always on our tail even if at times appearing to stumble along before catching up with us right at the end. Now, [...]
Frank Ribery? Gary Neville? Frank Ribery? Gary Neville?
SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Public manager | Leading questions: What are the main challenges to employing disabled people? Deep-rooted assumptions that disabled people are unemployable. Yet we have four government ministers who have a disability: David Blunkett, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and John Prescott. As usually happens, I found this while looking for something else.Now, I think we all [...]