Archive for June, 2008
Posted in June 22nd, 2008
How to Write a Review
by Gale Barker, Jun 21, 2008
Are you mad about movies? Do you love to read the latest books? Do you have a season ticket for concerts or the ballet?
Do your market research. Study the publications you want to write for, which reviews they include, and the style, tone, and format of […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Ian McEwan: I despise militant IslamBy Nicole Martin, Digital and Media CorrespondentLast Updated: 1:16PM BST 22/06/2008
The award-winning novelist Ian McEwan has launched an outspoken attack on militant Islam, accusing it of “wanting to create a society that I detest”.
Ian McEwan has been criticised by the Muslim Council of BritainThe author said he “despises Islamism” because […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Ian McEwan: I despise militant Islam
By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media CorrespondentLast Updated: 1:16PM BST 22/06/2008
The award-winning novelist Ian McEwan has launched an outspoken attack on militant Islam, accusing it of “wanting to create a society that I detest”.
Ian McEwan has been criticised by the Muslim Council of BritainThe author said he “despises Islamism” because […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Should England Rugby Management name the players who have been involved in various sexual incidents whilst in NZ recently?
Yes ~ for the sake of all team members! At the present time all of the players are under scrutiny for the wrongdoings of a minority.
NAME & SHAME the few , I say!! For the sake of […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Rob Andrews has been accused by his own players of being a little too lax in discipline on the recent shameful tour of New Zealand.
The suggestion is that ” The players call the shots”.
And they certainly drink them………according to my sources in certain Auckland bars.
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
England tour of New Zealand: Implicated players could be named as gloom deepensBy Paul Ackford
Last Updated: 10:06am BST 22/06/2008
The identities of four England rugby union players alleged to have had some involvement in a serious sexual assault in the Hilton Hotel, Auckland, could be disclosed on their return home.
Match report: Battered England in freefallIn pics: […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Have you heard that England players score more off the field than on. But it still takes 4 of them to do it!
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
Firelight and Woodsmoke, Applewood, Scent of Herbs by Claude Michelet
Written from personal experience by French writer Claude Michelet this is a wonderful epic of one family – the Vialhe Family – set in rural France from the turn of the twentieth century up to the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of the family as […]
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Posted in June 22nd, 2008
The next book we are studying is “Firelight & Woodsmoke” by Claude Michelet. It is a powerful saga of one family at the heart of rural France.
Should go down well in rural Limousin then!!
Meeting usual place.
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Posted in June 18th, 2008
TOP 10 WELSH JOKES…
Jun 17 2007 by Laura Kemp, Wales On Sunday
1) What do call an Englishman holding a bottle of champagne after a Six Nations game?
Waiter.
2) Did you hear about the Valleys girl who wanted to get dirty with her boyfriend?
He took her to a coalmine.
3) What do you call a Welshman with no […]
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Posted in June 17th, 2008
George Bush, Jaques Chirac and Tony Blair all go hunting. At the end of the night, they are cleaning their game and having a drink when Tony Blair stands, throws a bottle of whiskey in the air and yells “For Queen and country”. He then pulls out a pistol and shoots the bottle out of […]
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Posted in June 13th, 2008
Reuters - Friday, June 13 12:03 am
LONDON (Reuters) - There could be a killer hiding in your compost heap.
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Doctors warned gardeners on Friday of the danger posed by a common fungus after a previously healthy man died from breathing in fungal spores found in dead plant material.
The unusual case involved […]
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Posted in June 11th, 2008
Posted in June 11th, 2008
Posted in June 11th, 2008
‘House prices to fall until 2010′: the options for buyers and sellersLast Updated: 12:56am BST 11/06/2008Page 1 of 2 Have your say Read commentsHomeowners are being warned to brace themselves for three years of falling house prices, writes Paul FarrowThere are signs that tens of thousands of borrowers are already […]
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Posted in June 11th, 2008
The economic disaster will get worseBy Edmund Conway
It had to happen sooner or later. We have an economic disaster that cannot be blamed on Gordon Brown. No, not the collapse of Northern Rock, which the Prime Minister wrongly tried to attribute to problems in the American sub-prime market. Not the slump in house prices, rising […]
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
Dialect researchers given a ‘canny load of chink’ to sort ‘pikeys’ from ‘chavs’ in regional accentsBy Andy McSmithFriday, 1 June 2007
If, in this age of instant nationwide communication, you think that regional dialects have died off in the UK, you must be a bit of a noggerhead (as they say in Somerset), or perhaps or […]
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
Did you hear about the pikey who won the lottery?Apparently they’re going to pay him with Travellers Cheques…
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
In view of ITVs recent commentator’s……comments, I think we need a few Pikey jokes…………
A group of pikeys arrive at Heaven, and St. Peter is waiting at the Pearl Gates. “We want to come in.” One of them says.
St. Peter replies, “One moment please. God has a thing about pikeys coming in to Heaven.
“He visits God […]
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Posted in June 8th, 2008
Which one of these politicians is more popular with his people based on recent polls?
Which one of these leaders has not been elected to his position?
Which one will be out of office before Xmas?
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