Not a lot better today in fact, and I've been out of bed less than yesterday. I am coughing a bit more but I'll take that as a good sign as my lungs start to clear themselves. My oxidation level is as good as it's been, usually around 94%. But I think the story from here is going to be one of dull slow recovery, so I don't propose to keep up my daily updates after today. Meanwhile poor B has had a positive diagnosis. It is impressive that her care home has managed to hold the line as long ...
Chicago won the Oscar for Best Picture of 2002, and five others: Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones, beating fellow cast member Queen Latifah), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. It lost in another six categories, two of them to Roman Polanski's The Pianist. That year's Hugo and Nebula winner, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, also won two Oscars that year. The other four Oscar nominees were The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which I have of course seen, and Gangs of New York, The Hours and The Pianist, which ...
People across Scotland will be placing an image like this in windows with a candle at 4pm today to show solidarity with refugees. I thought it might be an idea to share the idea here in case any readers want to take part. This started as an initiative from the Strathclyde Chapter of the Methodist Church. Lib Dem Councillor Fiona Dryburgh is a member and shared it. It's fine for heathens like me to take part. The idea is: Print the picture – or draw an orange heart on a piece of paper and put it in your window with ...
Fri, 12:07: Many congrats to the new German Minister of Agriculture, @Cem_Oezdemir - was tremendously helpful back when he was first an MEP. Wishing him every success. Fri, 12:56: TIL that the entire surviving corpus of Linear A inscriptions would comfortably fit onto two A4 pages. https://t.co/IraoyeGSZO https://t.co/g9EGIqH1mq Fri, 16:17: COVID, day 9 https://t.co/p0No8RvAsJ Fri, 17:09: RT @JamesKAArcher: @NickFletcherMP "The nuanced point made in the actual exact words I chose were not interpreted correctly by those using... Fri, 18:28: The HAVOC Files 3, ed. Andy Frankham-Allen https://t.co/U4JS9cEKkY Fri, 20:23: Friday reading https://t.co/7QTdDEaGBb Sat, 10:45: RT @AlfDubs: History will judge this ...
I suppose that if you are responsible for upholding the laws of the land, in whatever capacity, then you should be beyond reproach, like Caesar's wife. How then do we explain this story, which details an arrangement where the HMRC have struck a deal to relocate tax officials into a new office complex in Newcastle owned by major Conservative party donors through an offshore company based in a tax haven. The Guardian says that the department's planned new home in the north-east of England is part of a regeneration scheme developed by a British Virgin Islands (BVI) entity controlled by ...
The sudden emergence of a new variant called omicron by the WHO, should serve to remind us all that just ensuring that rich countries gear up with full vaccination programmes will not save people in poor countries from catching virus variations ... Continue reading →
Thanksgiving is the most American of American holidays. Or is it? Like so many other American traditions and customs, Thanksgiving's origins have its roots on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Let's start with the Puritans. They were English. They were religious dissidents who arrived on the shores of New England mainly from East Anglia via an unhappy sojourn in the Netherlands. The beliefs, history, philosophy, politics and social structures were English. In 1620 there was no such thing as an "American" other than the Native Americans that they eventually supplanted. In fact, they were as English as apple pie, ...
West End Christmas Fortnight starts today, a whole fortnight packed with events for our local area! Today's events include : 11am to 4pm - Christmas Fayre at Verdant Works. 11.30am to 1.30pm - Making Dundee Home Soup and Pudding Lunch - at its new home at Meadowside St Paul's Church halls, 114-116 Nethergate. Will include a stall from the Friends of Magdalen Green. 12 noon to 4pm - Community Wardrobe Saturdays - Christmas Edition - Gate Church - Free clothes/shoes/accessories for everyone. Help us stop good quality clothing going in the bin and learn how to help beat fast fashion. ...
