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Death in France and death on television
A week ago now, I photoed this photo in the graveyard of a little village up in the mountains of southern France called Taulis (already mentioned here) (LINK TO THE OLD BLOG). Today being Good Friday,...
View ArticleThe magic of Twitter
Dominic Frisby, at 1.30 am this morning: Morning all, I am compiling a list of irritating people on the telly (US or UK) for a routine. Would you mind posting below the name of anyone who gets up your...
View ArticleBoris pater mixed metaphor alert
Incoming email with mixed metaphor and Other creatures news: Stanley Johnson, Boris pater, on Sky News this morning re Brexit deal: “We’re barking up the wrong horse …” From GodDaughter2’s pater Tony,...
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Tim Newman: That’s Smart and Funny. Agreed. A perfect example of the one of the ways a camera (in this case a video camera) can lie, by omission. Although this one lies, but then comes clean.
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An advertising agency in Pimlico
A handful of years ago now, Samizdata’s Perry de Havilland and his lady used to live in Chelsea, and that caused me quite often to be walking along the north bank of the River, between, one way or the...
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Now thrive the scaffolders: Videoing Kent v Surrey
That expedition to Beckenham, to watch Kent and Surrey play cricket against each other was fun, what with all the cricket to be watched: But after ruminating on the photos I took, I now find that one...
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A World Cup Final that could not have been closer
If you don’t care about cricket, you won’t care about England having just won the World Cup. If you do care about cricket, you’ll not be paying any attention to me, here. But, in the years to come, I...
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Big Thing alignments from Lord’s
One of the many things I like about watching cricket on the television, along with things like that I can see properly what is going on, is that in between overs, those high-up cameras often look...
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A drone at the Oval – and what drones will replace
I took this photo at the Oval (sorry the Kia Oval), on July 23rd 2012, when I and Michael Jennings were watching England lose by an innings to South Africa: All very regrettable. England lost all...
View ArticleDrones replacing sheepdogs (and some embedded video about this)
This is the first time I’ve tried embedding a bit of video in this blog. Let’s see how this works: Seems to have worked. Another major improvement of this blog over the old one, especially important...
View ArticleOne of the things they don’t tell you about having a baby
Rachel Riley: Currently have an in-womb baby hiccuping on my vagina … well that’s a new one. I Twitter-follow this TV letters-and-numbers lady for her anti-anti-Semitism. Wasn’t expecting that.
View Article“Bill – do not do this!”
This is a Tweet where you have to show it all or it makes no sense: "Bill if you take this TV thing, you're finished. You're an actor, for God's sake! Theatre! Movies! I've seen that script too – it's...
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Big Ben is having its scaffolding removed
Here’s a photo I took from just upstream of the Blackfriars Station entrance. It is of one of the many weird alignments you get, from the fact that the River Thames is not straight, but full of twists...
View ArticleWorld Cup torture
Well, I didn’t watch England slowly torturing the All Blacks to death yesterday, because I could not bear the thought of watching what I was sure would happen, viz: the All Blacks slowly torturing...
View ArticleDisplacement
So much for logic. More World Cup torture, for England anyway. By the end, it wasn’t even close. Looking back on it, it seems to me that what England did in this tournament was what France have done...
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Mariah says to eat crisps for Christmas
A feature, by which I mean a bug, of Growing old is that all the heartfelt love songs of earlier times are now recycled by their original performers to sell sofas, deodorants, food, etc.. All I Want...
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Quota T-shirts (XL)
A favourite recent photo, featuring one of Homer Simpson’s funnier pronouncements: The result of my weird habit of photoing stuff in tourist crap shops. Except that this wasn’t crap. I don’t think so,...
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Bryan Caplan – Hayek Memorial Lecture – photos and an instant summary
Earlier this evening, I (and a great many other people) attended the 19th Hayek Memorial Lecture: Photo 1: I got there very early, hence all the empty seats. The Official Photographer was Jean-Luc...
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4-4-0
This evening I happened upon episode 1 of Trains That Changed The World on Yesterday TV, the show which has Steve Davies in it. This was the episode I missed the first time around, so I am very happy...
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Early election news
First, this: Conservatives by anything from a comfortable to a cataclysmic (for Labour) majority. Well, thank goodness for that. Soon after that, the first Portillo-esque moment happened, when a place...
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