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"Horsepower" on TV - some of it in Mongolia
This Sunday and the following Sunday, on ITV at 9pm, there's a documentary on the history of horses and humans, including bits filmed in Mongolia on both weeks.
First episode, Martin Clunes visits the takhi prehistoric horses in Central Mongolia. The second week he goes to Western Mongolia to visit the Kazakh people, and apparently lovely Agii who ( Read more... ) -
Getting things done
I'm now terminally fed up with the regular pathetic meeping of the power-starved smoke alarm in the empty house next door. Their windows are open, so it means I have to have our bedroom window shut. Repeated requests to Haart, the estate agent, to nip in and either change the battery or remove it, have produced soothing words and no action ( Read more... ) -
Mixed blessing
[good] Baby squirrel spotted in back garden.
[bad] It was eating my strawberries. -
Pit dwelling
Cold out there. Snuggly warm in here.
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Crisp-y inspiration
The sunbeams are slanting through the lounge window, sliding underneath the sofa and thus unerringly highlighting both the dust and my failings as a housespouse. I should draw the curtains. -
trollied
S has been to his office party. After failing to decipher some of the more cryptic texts he was firing at me on his journey home, I went to get him from the station. The snow has set in.
His vocabulary tonight mainly consists of incoherent compliments and the repeated ejaculation: "Trollied!" I've assisted him to retire to the spare room (his choice ( Read more... ) -
standards must be maintained
Arrrgggh, I misspelled 'exploitative' in my last post, and can spot at least one grammatical error that wasn't there for comedic effect ( Read more... ) -
consumer power works better if you tell them what you're doing
Sunday afternoon, 6pmThere's a chocolate fair outside the Royal Festival Hall. I notice that Hotel Chocolat have a stand, and enquire whether the women running it are permanent staff. Yes, there are. Aha says I, is it worth mentioning - for you to pass up the chain - that your advertising sucks mightily? In fact that the women in the ads look as if ( Read more... ) -
Charity across international boundaries
Would anyone know how to get a small US charity (it's a "registered 501c.3 non-profit organization") also registered as a UK charity? The reason for doing it is to be able to effectively fundraise in the UK.
I want to find out how hard it would be before I offer to set it up.http://www.
