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clanwilliam's InsaneJournal:
| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | |
| 12:12 am | |
| Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | |
| 5:55 pm | That time of the year again! Here we go again - the King William's College quiz. As per usual, it's quite okay to look up answers, so long as you have an idea of where to find them - straightforward Googling is cheating. Thus "ooh, I know, it's in The Big Six" and subsequently looking up the character's name is fine, typing a phrase into Google is not. Blimey! I put it up, do an initial run myself and suddenly there's ten comments? I'm attributing answers to those who came up with them first. ( Questions below ) |
| Friday, December 26th, 2008 | |
| 11:58 am | Answer for f-list! In response to this question, the book is The Popinjay, by Iona McGregor.Yep, apparently there was a box of books lurking in my parents' attic that was only unearthed a month or so ago, and I've just gone through it. *iz happy* |
| Monday, December 8th, 2008 | |
| 9:00 am | Am I mad, in a coma or back in time? A couple of kids are playing outside - from the sounds of it, aged about four or five. One of them just started singing The Sweeney theme tune. |
| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | |
| 9:33 am | |
| Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | |
| 3:58 pm | Just before lights out... ...it was nice knowing you all. *g* ETA: Bugger! There I was, hoping it would turn out I'd been in the shower all this time... |
| Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | |
| 11:51 pm | Reposted from four years ago. No close relative of mine fought in either war - those of my relatives who were of the right age to fight in the first war were a bit too busy gearing up for a different war, and none of my relatives were the right age for the second war had they been inclined to join up (my mother's family might have done - my father's certainly wouldn't). But my brother-in-law's great-uncle was in the Dublin Fusiliers and was killed at Gallipoli. The National Archive has put medal records online - I'd recommend visiting them anyway at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk because it's a superb site - and there's one other snippet about this man. It comes from The Pals at Sulva Bay by Henry Hanna, who joined a Dublin Pals' regiment. While debating this over in my mind I was lying quite close to a chum called Cecil Murray (from the Bank of Ireland); he was badly hit. I asked him where he was hit. He showed me his left hand, which was in pulp, and, while speaking to him, he was hit three times in the body. The groans were heartrending. Cecil has no grave - he is commemorated at the Helles memorial in Turkey, and also at the beautiful Lutyens War Memorial Gardens in Dublin. He didn't really die for anything - he was cannon fodder for stupid people. 0 It's something I can never forget on November 11 - for every person who died for a clear reason, we also remember those who died for no reason but the idiotic and criminal egos of those in power. ETA 2008: For every person who died for a reason they believed in, hundreds died for no reason but the idiotic and criminal egos of those in power. And it continues to this day. |
| Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | |
| 9:28 pm | I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a million fans cried out and were suddenly silent. |
| Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | |
| 12:22 pm | Thursday night in Edinburgh ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gmh and I will be in the Auld Hoose on Thursday from about 5pm onwards if anyone cares to join us. We'd love to see as many of you as we can. |
| Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | |
| 4:30 pm | Love's Labour's Lost: the play that really really needed a script editor. Discuss. |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 | |
| 10:41 am | V. amused Just did the BBC's Seven Days, Seven Questions quiz on the news website. At the end, you get a ranking based on how you did - it's in three bands, and usually it's relevant to one of the questions. This time, I was very amused to note that they're using Spinal Tap lyrics as the rankings... |
| Monday, October 6th, 2008 | |
| 10:45 am | Well, they can't go against his final wishes now... No body in Cardinal Newman's grave. |
| Monday, September 29th, 2008 | |
| 9:03 pm | Omnomnomnom... Just polished off mug one of my patented cold cure, but with a twist. I don't have any lemon and ginger teabags in stock, so tragically, tragically, I was forced to make it from scratch.[1] Into a large mug, throw in lemon juice, ginger, honey and a hefty splash of whisk(e)y. I actually have cooking whisky for this because I was fed up of trying to decide which single malt to sacrifice. Add boiling water. Stir. Drink. If symptoms of cold are not gone by end of mug, repeat. By end of second mug, if you still have a stinking cold, you won't care anymore. [1] Well, in the sense that I used bottled lemon juice and frozen ginger cubes. ETA: Tragically I have sneezed again. Time for mug two. |
| Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | |
| 8:40 am | Side-effect of the LHC My alarm went off, I hit snooze and I found it really, *really* difficult to get out of bed on the second alarm. I then got up to discover gmh was on a support call from work. I blame Cern. Clearly gominokouhai was right and we have all ended up in a bizarre parallel universe because I never, *never* have difficulty getting out of bed. Now if you'll excuse me, I appear to have grown a beard. |
| Saturday, August 30th, 2008 | |
| 2:38 am | Attn: Cambs mob gmh and I will be in the Carlton from about 1pm onwards on Sunday, if anyone fancies wandering around.Thank you for your attention. |
| Monday, August 25th, 2008 | |
| 5:22 am | |
| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | |
| 1:07 am | |
| Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | |
| 11:17 pm | Congratulate me! For I have made it 9 minutes 13 seconds into the final episode of Bonekickers without vomiting. And I actually laughed once. ( uitlander there's clay tobacco pipes!)Still, if the bits I've been able to bring myself to watch of this dreck are any indicator, we know where all the funding for UK archaeology has been going over the past few years. |
| Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | |
| 2:47 pm | Happiness is... ...discovering that the Polish/Turkish/Japanese shop around the corner from work has expanded its services to pining expats. Unless they thought that Mikado were, in fact, a bizarre Japanese product where a marshmallow and (fake) raspberry jam biscuit was designed to be vaguely reminiscent of sushi in its appearance, as one of my colleagues pointed out. So far, the two Englismen like them (or were too polite to say otherwise), the Frenchman pulled all sorts of faces while eating his but was the only person to even remotely get the concept of the correct way to eat a Mikado, and the other Irishwoman always hated 'em but waxed nostalgic at the sight of them anyway. Mmmm... Current Music: Someone you love, would love some, Mum! |
| Monday, August 11th, 2008 | |
| 12:37 pm | Note to charities If you're setting up to promote the development of "a wide range of life skills" focused on human communication, I think you'll find that actually being able to spell and punctuate would be a good idea. |
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