From the category archives:

Anna’s Personal Stuff

A Requiem for Popsy.

July 10, 2010

It is fatal for me to read the comments on this blog late at night – they are always superb and well thought out, so much effort goes into them; we shall ignore the churlish few. Every time I do read them late at night, I go to sleep thinking of them, I wake up [...]

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Meandering thoughts.

June 27, 2010

20 odd years ago I was sitting at home, chaffing; the Doctors had stopped me driving whilst they tried to sort out my eye, and long days free of work is a tough billet for a dyed in the wool workaholic. I temporarily came over all domesticated and took the train to go shopping for [...]

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Bird Brained.

June 17, 2010

Some 20 years ago, a pair of peacocks arrived in this village – from whence we know not. They made their home in an old shed on the edge of the village, and raised a fine family. Frederick, the handsome chap in my picture, and his wife Marie, were their direct descendants. The route from [...]

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Some Like it Hot…

June 5, 2010

Ms Raccoon regrets….. She has shed her fur and gone skinny dipping in the Raccuzzi. Blogging will resume when the temperatures drops below 34°. Assuming the imminent thunderstorm doesn’t knock out the broadband. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]

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Happy Birthday!

June 1, 2010

It’s everyone’s favourite Raccoon’s birthday! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Wikio Wikio

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Save the Whale!

February 26, 2010

Greenpeace would have been proud of the BBC last night. Caught between the rock of trying to report on one of the day’s hottest story – that of the tragic death of Dawn Brancheau at the Orlando, Seaworld by a killer Whale – and the hard place of their own commitment to liberal values which [...]

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In the Beginning…

February 26, 2010

Today, an exhibition opens in London of an event, a life changing event, that transformed lives far more effectively than anything the Nu-Labour activists could dream of. It was a genuine revolution, a relatively bloodless one. Today, Carnaby Street is 50 years old. That is not quite true, Carnaby Street was around in Dicken’s time, [...]

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