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Comment on My Fitness Regime by hodgei
Ah yes – the plan! We geeks love to plan – spreadsheets, charts, wall boards… And then we have to download all the apps to our iThings. There’s no actual time left to do the blinking exercise
View ArticleComment on My Fitness Regime by Hawknose Harlequin
Dear Hodgei Thanks for the comment – you are the first person ever to respond to my blog! In my professional life I am partly a planner – but the good bit there is that I can then get everyone else to...
View ArticleComment on Playboy Jazz Poll 1964 by Hawknose Harlequin
I should have mentioned that I don’t know what the results were – I only found this single issue of Playboy! Since it’s kind of a catalogue of musicians who were highly regarded in 1964 I find it...
View ArticleComment on Playboy Jazz Poll 1964 by Hawknose Harlequin
More here: http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/article/playboy2.htm
View ArticleComment on Wrong Juxtapositions by patrickhadfield
The Economist was at an NRA rally where they were giving away guns if you were wearing a sticker… Quite bizarre.
View ArticleComment on Wrong Juxtapositions by Hawknose Harlequin
It’s tempting to reply to the gun lobby cliches “Ah but we don’t have a gun culture in UK…….” etc etc – and then one hears about shootings in Nottingham and so on. And there are huge number of...
View ArticleComment on Triumphs (and Kittens) by Jazz Jamboree 1963 « Mr Selwyn Lives...
[...] well as finding the Triumph 1300 brochure which was the subject of my previous post I also found this Souvenir Programme for the Jazz Jamboree 1963. I’m not going to reproduce [...]
View ArticleComment on Dear housewife..have wonderfull time by Hawknose Harlequin
Oh, I ought to add that the editing/censoring is by me, not the sender of the publicity!
View ArticleComment on Travels with Harriet 1 by Senior Moment? | Mr Selwyn Lives Under...
[…] think I might be having a prolonged senior moment. A couple of posts ago I posted “Travels with Harriet 1“, the first in a series of posts about a trip or trips my great uncle Mick took around the...
View ArticleComment on Jebal Marra: Christmas on a Volcano 1 by James Archer
Wow – stumbled across your blog – this brings back happy memories! I spent the night in the crater in 1981 when I was a teacher in Zalingei, we bought a goat in the crater the finest meal I can remember.
View ArticleComment on Jebal Marra: Christmas on a Volcano 1 by Hawknose Harlequin
I was later a teacher in Zalingei and first visited the town about September 1980 following a previous visit to Jebal Marra whilst my school in Kosti was on strike. Might we have met before? Do you...
View ArticleComment on Jebal Marra: Christmas on a Volcano 1 by Hawknose Harlequin
Sorry, I ought to have mentioned that I originally wrote “Christmas on a Volcano” back in around 1983, perhaps a couple of years later, and submitted it to a travel magazine, who refused it. There are...
View ArticleComment on Jebal Marra: Christmas on a Volcano 1 by James
I arrived in Zalingei in sept 1980 as an assistant English teacher as an 18 year old with Project Trust. John Kemp was the proper English teacher – though I lost touch with him. My students went on...
View ArticleComment on Liverpool – Port Said 1943: A Wartime Voyage 2; Third Day Out by...
Fascinating to see who was travelling around while a war was gong on – especially the British Council sending a book officer to Cairo and someone to Turkey to organise sport! And it’s all very amiable.
View ArticleComment on London Underground in a Day 1 by golden-sparrow
Oh wow that is a very long time on the underground! And I complain about my daily commute! haha
View ArticleComment on London Underground in a Day 1 by Hawknose Harlequin
It passed by very quickly and the Night Tube was brilliant.
View ArticleComment on Hampstead: Focus on Eating Out, 1965 by Tempusfugit
The Huntsman, Taverna Mykonos and Turpin’s look good value for money. Just checked your intro and see we are of a like mind. I remember Jack Straw’s Castle as a pub in the ’80s.
View ArticleComment on Hampstead: Focus on Eating Out, 1965 by Hawknose Harlequin
The Flask was my local.
View ArticleComment on Of Bamboo, Tonsils and Cow Pats 1 by Hawknose Harlequin
I realise now that the house is still there – it was much further down the road than I had remembered.
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