Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Monday, 21 November 2016

Public health would really like to ban Christmas (and use your taxes to campaign for this ban)

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OK I exaggerate but only slightly. It does feel like it's only the lack of opportunity that's stopping public health from banning Ch...
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Saturday, 27 December 2014

The consumer society is the good society...

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We're forever being told - nay lectured - by well-off folk who write books (not to mention politicians, pundits and a whole crowd of t...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

So Nell, you hate Christmas do you? Bah, humbug!

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Every year, somewhere in the torrent of Christmas-related guffle that the media pour into our consciousness, there is the Grinch piece, th...
Saturday, 21 December 2013

The most influential humans ever...and a Merry Xmas!!

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There was a list - there's always a list. It claimed to contain the most influential people in history (but contained Elvis Presley an...
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Happy Christmas!

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Rather than a jolly Santa or even some tasteful arrangement of holly, tinsel and pine cones here's a photograph of Ullswater taken on ...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Stephen Bayley is still a cultural snob...

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The victim of Stephen Bayley's scorn Three years ago Stephen Bayley - then described as  “…one of Britain's best known cultural...
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Happy Christmas...

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**** Here's hoping for a good one filled with wine, song, great food and company. This after all it what we live for - not for Christm...
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Friday, 18 November 2011

Bah, humbug!

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**** The teachers union, NAS/UWT are having a Christmas 'go slow' : Members of NASUWT are to be ordered not to put up festive de...
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Friday, 24 December 2010

Happy Christmas and Thank You

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Happens every year, dunnit ? Christmas, that celebration of all things good and shiny (not to mention the kitsch that we all secretly love)...
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Friday, 25 December 2009

Friday Fungus: Chestnuts & Mushroom Rarebit (oh, and Happy Christmas)

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Although I have done my best to demonstrate a link between mushrooms and Christmas and have provided you with the best breakfast recipe you...
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: Remembering a White Christmas

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I was nine when I experienced my first white Christmas. My memory may be a little rose-tinted but we’d set off to walk to midnight mass at O...
Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: "Away in the Manger" and the spirit of Christmas

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*** Whether it’s the choir stalls of a fine cathedral, the nativity at a school in the rough end of town or a family gathered round a piano ...
Saturday, 12 December 2009

Stephen Bayley Cultural Snob - bah, humbug!

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Source: http://www.holidayinflatables.info/christmas-inflatables.htm Oi you fancy designer types lay off my kitsch! Apparently Stephen Bayl...
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Friday, 18 September 2009

Friday Fungus: possibly the best breakfast dish in the world ever!!

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Thought I'd share with you this awesome breakfast dish (which of course you are free to eat any time of the day or night) - mushroom ...