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World survives Big Bang, originally uploaded by kronoc.

I had better pay that credit card bill after all then.

Herself has recently been getting a lot of telephone messages for some midlands socialite named Mark. Neither of us know who he is, but the voicemail keeps coming. Spookily the phone doesn’t ring for him, ever, but still the messages appear. Thanks to the magic of the internet, using the audio player below, now you [...]

It’s 2008 and still bombs from WWII are being found in the neighbourhood. Train and tube journeys have been disrupted as a result.
The Guardian reports:
A massive unexploded second world war-bomb began to tick as experts worked to defuse it, police said today.
The 1,000kg-device (2,200lb) was found in a river at Sugar House Lane, near [...]

For my final throw I chose scissors. I was thinking he’s going to throw paper. All the practice must have paid off and I’m thrilled and honoured to be representing Ireland at the international finals.
No really, it’s true.

Eye witness testimony of what actually happened during the final moment of Jean Charles de Menezes’ life, the innocent man shot by the police in London in July 2005, is set to be released by the IPCC this week. This follows the only prosecution so far, brought against London’s police authority under health and safety [...]

I’m going to stick my neck out here and suggest that there will be a general election called in the UK very shortly indeed. Why? Well, coming into work this morning (I work in the same building as Labour party HQ) what greeted me but boxes and boxes of newly printed election material.
Coupled with the [...]

Nothing to panic about then.

Just when I was thinking that I was only one of three people who took note of the ever talented Ken Morse…

For him, for her, for you. But not for dogs, apparently. City shopping scales new heights, with this delightful establishment spotted on Walthamstow high street, in east London. This is across the road from a place called “Style Overdose”, of all things.

15 British marines get arrested by Iranian forces. The Iranian’s say they were in Iranian waters, the British say they were in Iraqi waters. While this is going on, a supposedly spontaneous demonstration occurs outside the Foreign Ministry in Tehran. The crux of the demonstration appears to be that the people want the marines [...]