Monthly Archives: March 2005

What a fantastic cake!

Published March 21, 2005

Mmmm, pie. West-Yorkshire pie-lovers have had a special wedding cake made – a three tier pork pie [news.bbc.co.uk]. The special cake took a day to produce, and was made because the groom is a member of the Pork Pie Appreciation Society and the bride thought it would be a good lark. Heh. Yummy.

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Photo Friday : Glow

Published March 18, 2005

Time to do this week’s photo friday [www.photofriday.com], which is Glow [www.photofriday.com]. I decided to give this week’s photo challenge a slightly Eastery theme (though Easter is not until next week really). So for this picture there’s lots of little yellow chicks, with a bit of a glow. As usual, you can click the picture [...]

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No news is good news

Published March 17, 2005

There’s not a whole lot of news about just at the moment. Well, there is, but it’s not the sort of news that I desire making entries out of. I mean, we have had a story about Provident Financial, where I once worked [news.bbc.co.uk], a Budget [news.bbc.co.uk], in which not a whole lot changed unless [...]

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Mould, papers, and Super Volcanic Eruptions

Published March 15, 2005

First off, I have a couple of replies to make to commenters.. Armin [www.ministryofpropaganda.co.uk] responded to my last entry, helpfully explaining that it was The Independent that had carried the drunken calling story [news.independent.co.uk]. So that is good. Secondly I had a few commenters asking how mould is formed. To be honest I can’t quite [...]

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stop drunken calls

Published March 13, 2005

I heard on one of the news programmes today someone reading a newspaper article that mentioned that people could stop those much-regretted drunken mobile phone calls that folk make at 3AM after a night out. Simply dialling 333 and the number you want to block out means that your provider doesn’t let you ring that [...]

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