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Britain’s drinking problem - bottled water
This is a really interesting article/rant by Marina Hyde in The Guardian about Britain’s obsession with bottled water. I’m sure this isn’t just a British phenomenon.
Great statistic. Bottled water costs 4 times that of oil, yet we have don’t have an oil tap in our kitchen!
Explosions in bangalore
There appears to have been a series of explosions in bangalore. Twitter has picked up this news very quickly.
There is a map showing where the blasts have taken place
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Bring Me The Headstone of Ian Curtis
Last year Control was filmed on our street as Ian Curtis lived and died opposite our house, and it was used in the film. Great film it was too. I’d half expected to see Japanese tourists filing past the famed house, or maybe a blue plaque. I mean, Paul Young has a blue plaque outside [...]
Time for a change
Yes. yes. I know, I know. I’ve not blogged for absolutely ages. Am I dead, or is blogging dead? Well, I’m well and truly alive. As for the state of the blogsphere, we’ll leave that for another day.
The reason for my bloglessness, is that I’ve been distracted - weddings, marriage, work. These real-world events seem [...]
Tremors felt in England
At 1am this morning, I felt the house shake, like large truck was going past, or someone was running on loose floorboards. It really shook me up (no pun intended).
According to BBC News the tremor measure 4.7 on the Richter scale.
Is it coincidence that several tremors have also been felt this week in Indonesia?
time for [...]
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