Just a reminder of the post I put up a couple of years ago about How to be Single at Christmas.
Oh, and in case anyone is wondering what I’m eating for Christmas dinner, let’s just say that Lidl’s promotion of Rudolph Steaks is very welcome in Praepostorial Towers.
I wondered how you were fairing in the city that’s reported to have voted Yes.
Just to let you know, you can best guage what it means in your neck o’ the woods, but that form of salute is still used in a number of countries in the world and isn’t associated in any respect with Nazism. That salute is common in Mexico, as it was in the US before WW2.
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However, they have since opted for the right hand flat over the heart and we get flack from our northern neighbors for our “Nazi” salute to our flag.
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The gesture they were making here is entirely associated in local minds with the nazis.
I gather that there were EDL/SDL members present, in addition to the usual Lodge suspects. This may go some way to explaining the Nazi salutes.
I missed out on celebrating the anniversary of this blog on 3 August. I've no idea how many readers it has had since then. Quite a few members of the congregation read it. People who are thinking of coming to the church read it. People who are on committees with me read it. Preachers read it.…
My lousy webhost, Valuehost managed to put the databases which run my websites offline yesterday whilst supposedly carrying out an upgrade of their network. When the time comes to renew my hosting, I will have to think long and hard about whom I should be using. The trouble with Valuehost is that they are cheap.…
Following my lamentation at Lammastide (1 August) that I did not have any fresh bread in the house, I have borrowed a breadmaker from someone who is in a household where the Atkins diet holds sway.Thus, I awoke this morning to the smell of fresh bread wafting through part of the house. This loaf, the…
The pictures on the television of people being airlifted from their cars on the road north of Strathyre are dramatic. I came down that road earlier in the week in the most frightening thunderstorm. Stair-rods from heaven and thunder to shake the mountains.
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