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Milk churn label

Scan of a milk-churn label given to me by my farmer friend.

Published 23-Sep-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: photographs

Paralympics

The girlfriend of the son of the woman who cuts our hair, as she watched the Paralympic equestrian dressage event earlier this week: Is it the horses who are disabled, or the riders?

Published 07-Sep-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, haircuts, horses, olympics, sport

Damage limitation exorcise

Prince Harry deployed to Afghanistan.

Published 07-Sep-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ginners, nasty little ginger shit, royalty

Otherwise engaged

Apologies for the lack of updates recently.

Published 06-Sep-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: stense

Brum

I have been to Birmingham.

Published 27-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: birmingham, photos

Small steps

On the death of Neil Armstrong.

Published 26-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: mum and dad, nasa, space

Inexperienced heraldry

Nabokov quote. Discuss.

Published 23-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature

StarWars™ neck-accoutrement pun challenge

In which I challenge my reader to think of a StarWars™ run.

Published 22-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: competitions, hitchin, puns, star wars

Putting the Olympics into perspective

Comparing the 2012 London Olympics medals haul of four countries.

Published 13-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: australia, compare and contrast, olympics, sport, statistics

Werner Herzog on Chickens

A video.

Published 11-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: videos

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