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High spring tide at Hayle, flooding on the causeway by Quay House

Sat, 21/02/2015 - 12:00am — Carol

So how long has Canada had reading of rights?

Sun, 18/01/2015 - 6:09pm — Carol
Looking up history of Kojak on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak#Cultural_impact came across ...

In Canada, some Canadians were concerned that the show left an impression in Canadian youth that they had rights, such as to be informed of an offense, and that it depicted American police reading people their rights in accordance with the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona]Miranda ruling[/url]. In his 1980 book [i]Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada[/i], American sociologist Edgar Fredenberg who came to Canada in the early 1970s to avoid the draft was concerned that Canadians were more upset over depictions of Americans practising their civil rights on a TV show dealing with civil rights issues than that they did not have those rights.

Gruesome and marvelous animated GIFs from GE's new body scanner

Sun, 11/01/2015 - 10:15pm — Carol

Via Twitter:

See gruesome and marvelous animated GIFs from GE's new body scanner http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/11/7527809/ge-ct-scanner

Thomas Round on Twitter: "GP visit £31, A&E £114, ambulance £235. Save the #NHS by investing in #primarycare #putpatientsfirst

Fri, 09/01/2015 - 11:55pm — Carol

Via Twitter:

GP visit £31, A&E £114, ambulance £235. Save the #NHS by investing in #primarycare #putpatientsfirst #yourgpcares

Quote - A Perfect Marriage...

Mon, 05/01/2015 - 1:07pm — Carol

A Perfect Marriage...

... is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on Each Other

What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick...

Wed, 05/11/2014 - 1:20pm — Carol

Seen on Twitter - What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick....

Oberon Books letter

Wed, 30/04/2014 - 10:20am — Carol

Seen on Twitter - letter from James Hogan, Oberon Books to Nigel Farage....

Spring - or is it summer....

Sun, 06/04/2014 - 11:00pm — Carol

Ice Cream from Sally at Godrevy today!  Glorious!

Gwithian looking glorious

Quote - for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect...

Fri, 28/03/2014 - 3:22pm — Carol

 

for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as
when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our
estimation

Pride and Prejudice http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppv1n20.html

Tony Benn...

Mon, 17/03/2014 - 4:11pm — webmaster
see also http://boingboing.net/2014/03/14/tony-benn-secret-mounter-of-i.html