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I’m moving from Google Blogger to WordPress
I’m fed up with Google Blogger. So WordPress, here’s a new customer. Please be easy with me.
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20 things you should know about children
20 things you should know about children by Tim Lott, in today’s Guardian.
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The Tenpasenta Church, Southampton
I’m looking forward to exploring further www.tenpasenta.org. Womb to tomb!
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Google Blogger. I’m losing patience..
Once again, I can post to the blog but cannot edit other areas. Not happy, again. Will investigate WordPress, again.
Things change on WordPress (early days..)
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North Downs walk
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Newspapers
During the week we try to pick up the i newspaper. For a ridiculously cheap 20p (30p on Saturday) you get a cut-down but decent version of The Independent. We are huge fans of the i.
On Saturdays we are regular Guardian readers but the Guardian is sooo expensive these days (£2.30 on Saturdays). Interestingly, if you spend £5 at Waitrose supermarket you can pick up selected newspapers for free, including The Guardian. But there’s a dilemma here because this sales technique could seriously damage the local small shops which will find fewer customers for their fruit & veg, bread and newspapers.This weekend we broke our routine. On Saturday we bought The Times and on Sunday we took a free copy of the Sunday Telegraph with our big Waitrose shop. We wouldn’t normally get a Sunday paper.I’m pretty sure we’ll return to The Guardian next Saturday! The Times was ok, but just not good enough to break a habit of a lifetime. The Sunday Telegraph is not us! What’s with their obsession with knocking the BBC? And the magazine is awful.We’re looking forward to next Saturday’s Guardian. We missed you Lucy Mangan and Tim Dowling, and we missed the book reviews, the money section, the magazine, the quick crossword. And we missed the left-leaning slant on the articles! Oh, and we missed the Guide, hugely. -
I’ve had to give up reading books
I’ve had to give up reading fiction. I seem unable to complete any novel. I’m going over to non-fiction for a while. So, from Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street, I start with Tim Harford’s The Logic of Life and Ben Hammersley’s Now for Then : How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. -
Kings Place, Kings Cross, London
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Prisoners
Prisoners is a curious film centered on the abduction of two children. At two and a half hours it’s a long film for a thriller. Whilst the film held my attention throughout, it’s slow moving and low on tension (there’s no music!). The only bit of tension, at the end, involving a car race against time, seemed oddly out of place. Still, I enjoyed the film.This was a rare visit to an Odeon cinema. Not a patch on an independent cinema such as the Curzon cinemas.
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Banstead loses its bookshop
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