From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all
Lemonade
Today, we are mostly playing Lemonade Game
Scrambled Eggs
Big has cooked her own dinner (scrambled eggs a la Delia) this evening. She has been getting her own food for ages, but this is the first time she has ever cooked it. Went a bit lumpy, but never mind.
Google Sightseeing
Fascinating site Aside from satellite aberrations, and features on some fascinating places, prize for all round weirdness goes to the Flying Doughnut (Google has improved the definition of images since this was posted, if anything it gets weirder close up). Edit 2024: Google Sightseeing seems a bit broken, I hope it will be fixed. Here […]
Sceptic (another estate agent rant, but shorter than usual)
“The property has sceptic tank drainage.” Idiot.
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Spammers, eh? Anyway, we have bluebells in our garden. Self seeded. So it is now a nature reserve, SSI or something and I am henceforth exonerated from mowing the grass. I adore bluebells. Now I need to find out how you tell the Spanish ones from the proper English ones. Hmm, I think we are […]
Where to start? Book One, of course.
She said she wanted to learn to cook. Delia seems a good way to go to me. 🙂 I had thought it might be desperately over-technical, in fact she seems to be managing the writing rather well, .
Long, hard day
Thursday, 19th April, 2007
Idyllic (more from estate agents)
“Set within an idyllic location between the Rochdale Canal and the river…” That’ll be on the flood plain then. On the bright side, when the market crashes, the owner of this house won’t be left high and dry. 🙂
Party in Brighouse
Not quite sure what was going on here. They had fun, ran round like maniacs, ate jelly and ice cream, bounced up and down on the trampoline, ran around some more, played pass the parcel and then ran around like maniacs some more. I waited to drive them home. Jax has gone off to bed […]