Month: January 2008
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Let it snow
I miss winter. This year the Scottish ski-ing industry is actually in business again but it still doesn’t feel like proper winter weather. There are geraniums in bloom alongside snowdrops in my back garden and frogs pop their heads out of our little pond every other day as temperatures slip up and down the…
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Living by numbers
This won’t do. It’s 11.35 am and what have I got to show for the day? Half an hour too long in bed, two cups of tea, two cups of coffee, half an hour too long reading the paper, 17 minutes drumming practice (ok, really 20 mins). Time I got down to some work but…
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Amnesty protest
Well, Tommy, Nick and I didn’t get arrested but just for a few seconds I felt a flicker of what it might be like to suffer the real humiliation of Guantanamo as we were ordered to kneel in a pose of submission by a young man in combat gear: “I don’t want to see your…
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Guantanamo Day
Ray has just come in to wish me luck, he hopes I won’t get arrested. Sadly work prevents him joining me on the Guantanamo demo organised by Amnesty today in Edinburgh, London and Belfast. Once Tommy arrives I shall go and collect the six orange boiler suits I booked online in an impulsive moment before…
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Celebrity chefs and the c word
Good for Hugh and Jamie for putting their celebrity to such good use. It is brave of them to challenge the supermarkets for promoting cheap chicken produced in ways any civilised society should be ashamed of. And with RSPCA running a chicken welfare campaign at the same time online petitions are gathering strength at a…
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Miss Sixty
Just a bunch of…me and my mates growing old disgracefully on a trip to Orkney after Frances spotted the potential of the church name. I used my bus pass for the first time today, cupping it in my hand so only the driver would see it, dousing that half hope that he would refuse to…