Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Brown to apologise to all children forced to grow up in the UK
Gordon Brown is planning an apology to those children left to be raised in the UK instead of being offered the chance of living in a far nicer country, somewhere sunny.The rest of Brown to apologise to all children forced to grow up in the UK
Under the Child Migrants Programme - which ended just 40 years ago - many children were rejected and left to face a life of dreary weather, miserable citizens and truly terrible national sports teams.
59 year old Gerry Owen is one of the unfortunate children of the fifties left behind in the UK, and he told us, “I was born in 1950, and in 1959 my application to go ‘absolutely anywhere else at all’ was rejected out of hand.”
“Since then, I’ve been subjected to a miserable existence on these Isles, consisting mainly of drizzling grey monotony interspersed with abject disappointment after stunningly predictable abject disappointment.”
“It’s all the Government’s fault, and I still blame them for not sending me somewhere much, much nicer all those years ago.”
“The irony is, I’m a borderline alcoholic who genuinely loves cricket and utterly despises football, I’d have made a brilliant Australian.
Chilling words that triggered the bloody massacre of clan MacDonald at Glencoe to go on display
I still get grief about this even now being named Campbell. I have been to Glencoe many times and it is hard to think of a starker place for such a grim event.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Why was Enid Blyton so controversial? | nourishing obscurity
Head of the BBC schools department Jean Sutcliffe said in an internal memo dated 1938: “My impression of her stories is that they might do for Children’s Hour but certainly not for Schools Dept, they haven’t much literary value.
“There is rather a lot of the Pinky-winky-Doodle-doodle Dum-dumm type of name – and lots of pixies – in the original tales.” She added that they were “competently written”.
For me, I don't remember the Golliwogs very well, but the Famous Five were pretty cool.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
With the Adelaide Christmas Pageant over time for some Christmas Lights
Ha Ha
The street over from us really get into this sort of stuff. It is still incongruous for me with hot temperatures and winter snow themes. When I lived in Singapore I always though Orchard Road looked very incongruous with their over the top decorations and 30 degrees.
Giant iceberg spotted off Australia
The ice chunk, measuring some 2,300 feet long with an estimated depth of more than 1,000 feet, caused a stir when it was sighted by experts based on Australia's remote Macquarie Island.
Drought over as icebergs come to the rescue?
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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My Political Ambitions Go Nowhere
Bad luck on your result in the Glasgow North East by election Colin. I'm sure with a bit of effort we could have got you more than 13 votes!
Charlie Baillie - British National Party - 1,013 votes (4.92%)
William Bain - Labour - 12,231 (59.39%)
Eileen Baxendale - Liberal Democrats - 474 (2.30%)
Mev Brown - Independent - 32 (0.16%)
Colin Campbell - The Individuals Labour and Tory (Tilt) - 13 (0.06%)
Ruth Davidson - Conservatives - 1,075 (5.22%)
David Doherty - Scottish Greens - 332 (1.61%)
Mikey Hughes - Independent - 54 (0.26%)
David Kerr - SNP - 4,120 (20%)
Louise McDaid - Socialist Labour Party - 47 (0.23%)
Kevin McVey - Scottish Socialist Party - 152 (0.74%)
Tommy Sheridan - Solidarity - 794 (3.86%)
John Smeaton - Independent Backed by the Jury Team - 258 (1.25%)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Skywatch Friday
Thebarton during our heatwave this week. Temperature has been above 35 degrees all week. Three days of 39 degrees and tomorrow it hits 40 degrees. Hottest November ever.
More skies here.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Stunning Cassini Image to Knock Your Socks Off | Universe Today
Stunning Cassini Image to Knock Your Socks Off | Universe Today
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Contemporary Britain
Contemporary Britain. These guys must be paying in their contribution to the bank bailout.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
KP blasts the Aussies out of the Ashes 2005
I can remember watching this in the middle of the night, with England all but out of Ashes contention. I had forgotten just how many chances Australia dropped. Quite incredible counter attacking innings. It was a huge anti climax when Hayden and Langer were sent in to finish the day, with no chance to win.
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Beefy to the max - Memories of Ian Botham from the 80s
Botham's Ashes: the images and the yarns are as well-worn as the pages of a boy's first mucky book: the blind fury of those hook shots that nearly launched him off his feet, that square cut through point off Lillee, the irresistible force of his bowling action, enormously strong but still lithe. It is all as vivid as any childhood memory.
So, too, that famous picture of him in the Headingley dressing room, shirt off, the grinning man of the match raising a bottle: the king of the world. Or the more brooding shot taken the night before (145 not out overnight), about to light an atypically modest, slim cigar. He looks distant, solitary: perhaps he is reflecting on the magnitude of his achievements and what they could mean. Maybe he is just working out what his first pint will be. What a summer: 149 not out, 5 for 1, 118: the numbers need no elucidation to any cricket fan, for our memories will never fade.
