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It’s frightening how languages trickle out of the brain when you don’t use them!
I’ve been thinking about a degree in modern languages with the future aim of translation as a means of buying food. Seven years ago I was fluent in German. I foolishly presumed that I more or less still would be. Uh-uh. [...]

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Can you dig it?

Sometimes I wonder about the motivation for crime. Certainly there are social factors – poverty, debt, sometimes the desire to have a certain image. Other times I wonder if the big attraction is purely the buzz that comes when you think you’re getting away with something you shouldn’t.
These thieves must fall into that category.
A gang [...]

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Q&A

I thought I’d have a go at this meme passed on by Nicolemarie. I don’t usually bother with them!
1. If you had to name the most terrifying moment of your life so far, what would it be?
It would have to be the time I got a mystery illness of some description. I was in [...]

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Britain’s last WWI veteran

An interesting article about Harry Patch, Britain’s (the world’s?) last surviving World War One veteran, whose life story has just been published. It seems like he hasn’t entirely forgotten his training:
To help jog his memory, a young major in his party fumblingly demonstrated how to change the magazine. ‘I said: “Major, you’d have to [...]

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Daft Quizes

Face it. We all love these pointless things!
http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bquiz.htm (Which book are you)
http://bluepyramid.org/ia/squiz.htm (Which US State are you?)
This was surprisingly accurate. I was Tennessee: “A vibrantly musical individual, you probably know how to play multiple instruments. [Well, I have a guitar and tin whistle, but both are used purely for my own entertainment and the torture [...]

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Lord Lucan found?

Has Lord Lucan turned up in New Zealand?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6938131.stm
That must be Shergar he’s holding in his arms in the photo!

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Albino sparrows

Interesting looking birds! I don’t think I would have known they were sparrows without being told.

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Deer and cows interbreeding

A few months old but still as funny as ever. I urge you all to go here, scroll halfway down and  click on “Deer causing havoc in county Clare”. This is an Irish councillor who is convinced deer and cattle are interbreeding, because the cattle “look very alert”.
Hilarious stuff. The interviewer can’t keep his face [...]

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