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In response to: "Beware trackbacks" 896 days old
by WebKing [Visitor]

How do you investigate that the sites linking to you are just spammy ones? Some more info or guidance will be helpful. Thanks in advance. more…

In response to: "A load of potatoes" 1339 days old
by Langguth [Visitor]

“The roads here, like all English roads, are well surfaced” – I definitely agree on the well surfaced English roads! more…

In response to: "Stalemate for Europe" 1555 days old
by jurop [Visitor]

I just wanted to say HI...we have similar interests in bloging. I have a blog on my on about EU as well. Unfortunately it is in croatian so you won't understand a bit, but you can count on having one new member of your "blog flock" coming regularly and chacking new stuff about EU from the british point of view...so hope you'll continue writing it.. more…

In response to: "Strip Europe back" 1568 days old
by  [Visitor]

Well presented summary.
Subsidies are major consideration... but not the only one. The secrecy, lack of accountability and barefaced corruption of unelected officials that make up laws that seem at best frivilous and at worst.. commercially disatrous... is what really gets to me. Apart from that, I have to admit, that it has a lot going for more…

In response to: "Beware trackbacks" 1569 days old
by ianrthorpe [Member]

I'm back to you on this one (was sure I had your e-mail somewhere. OK, absolutely no need to worry. Someone has created a script that spiders blog sites and links via a trackback wherever they are available. This automatically links our blogs to their site. The purpose of this is to boost the search engine rating. Its really just a new form of spam more…

In response to: "Beware trackbacks" 1570 days old
by ianrthorpe [Member]

Maybe "training" means something to bondage and domination freaks.
A lot of "blog technology" mystifies me and I worked in computers for over twenty years. RSS feeds don't actually feed anything unless people subscribe to your RSS host. But if they can go to the RSS host to reasd your page why not just bookmark it in their favourites?
T more…

In response to: "Pin the tail on the donkey" 1572 days old
by lavikingasnack [Member]

they were plain clothes police?
I think if i saw a bunch of men with guns running towards me i'd probably peg it as well.
actually, who am i kidding- i'd just give them whatever they wanted!

The whole situation is just awful, and that really was the worst case scenario- for him to have no links whatsoever with the bombings. more…

In response to: "More trouble in London" 1575 days old
by thespos [Member]

Not unless deaf pensioners take to leaping over the barriers in tube stations, I guess. I am not happy about the police shooting people - I'd say they aren't either and would prefer not to. It's very tricky. If they had given him a chance and if he had triggered a detonator . . . If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers. more…

In response to: "More trouble in London" 1575 days old
by  [Visitor]

"but he was wearing a big bulky jacket on a hot day and ignored calls to stop."

Are we going to shoot deaf pensioners for the same reason? more…

In response to: "Fruit fest" 1578 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Sounds like an idyllic day with a yummy conclusion.

Dawn more…

In response to: "Welcoming the neighbours" 1581 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Hilarious writing, Triona!
Dawn more…

In response to: "Welcoming the neighbours" 1581 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Hilarious descriptions, Triona!
Dawn more…

In response to: "Comments" 1587 days old
by thespos [Member]

I have no illusions about the motives of the G8 leaders and think that Gleneagles was a damp squib. But we got somewhere and somewhere is better than backwards. The bottom line is we got to the table - that's a first, you cannot deny it. Next question, who got us there? I'm betting that's a first as well - I assume aging rockers were not on the inv more…

In response to: "Comments" 1587 days old
by DellaR [Visitor]

It is the betrayal of Bono and Geldof that I dislike, not the men themselves. Music, artists, Africa, and love for our fellow humans were betrayed by the G8 when the G8 manufactured consent for globalization. Sorry if left any other impression. more…

In response to: "Words for George and positive thoughts" 1587 days old
by thespos [Member]

Thanks to everybody who helped with the bombs in london it has been hard but there are positive thoughts to go around even in the darkest time light can be found just by a positive thought spread in the world it only takes one to get them all going and fighting for what they want of the world. We need to stop the hate and get to know and understand more…

In response to: "Hello Hackney - let's make poverty history" 1587 days old
by DellaR [Visitor]

Maybe you would be interested in my blog. it is about the relationship between the G8 and Live 8. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Blair used Live 8 and Bob Geldof. Blair confused the issues of Fair trade and Free trade. more…

In response to: "Hello Hackney - let's make poverty history" 1588 days old
by ivonaiftimie [Member]

Thank you - I am here and I am reading you. I never thought that my formation is the cause of the way I think (I lived 12 years under a communist regime). Anyway, I am trying to overcome my shortcomings and walk in the other's shoes as well.

I guess you were right about human rights. The world is not perfect, but I would like to make a more…

In response to: "Plea - recover the bodies please" 1588 days old
by ivonaiftimie [Member]

you wrote:

I read your comment on another blog about hatred and death penalties and I felt obliged to respond to you directly. Londoners reacted in a crisis as Londoners always do - with humour, stoicism and solidarity. They are walking tall in the world's media because of their compassionate and dignified response - please do not let more…

In response to: "The road to 2012" 1589 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Very interesting Triona. My good copy of the 'London A-Z' is nearly 30 years old, still good because I doubt that I've opened it until starting to follow your posts.

Regards
Dawn more…

In response to: "7/7 and then there were seven" 1590 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Glad to hear that at least one of my new friends and her extended family are safe and sound. Currently a nephew and niece of mine who are touring the UK were in London yesterday, and I've heard now, they're OK.
The London civil defence are certainly well organised, and I do admire the courage and stoicism of those who have been part of the t more…

In response to: "Live8, discovery and adventure" 1591 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

As per usual Triona, lively and enjoyable descriptive writing. Thanks too for the map references.
Dawn
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In response to: "Continuing on the road to Dunstan" 1593 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Good luck with your research.
Dawn more…

In response to: "The divils in the detail" 1593 days old
by thespos [Member]

I've replied privately to Bob - I think he's my cousin - to coin the immortal words of Flann O'Brien, "it's a big world, isn't it?". Onward on the Road to Dunstan. more…

In response to: "Training in England" 1593 days old
by ianrthorpe [Member]

wow, Papageno hasn't changed.

Loved your saga "Escape from Stevenage." You could make it into a film. Trouble is John Mills is dead, Richard Attenborough is a bit past it and RADA does not seem to produce a stream of jolly decent chaps any more.
I had a similar experience trying to escape from Swindon once.
best
Ian more…

In response to: "The divils in the detail" 1594 days old
by robert dunstan [Visitor]

We were recently in Skibereen checking on the geneology of Dunstan. We too went to Annie Mays and were told of a Morgan Dunstan who may have been a brother to the Thomas Conn Dunstan of whom we were related. Do you know anything that could help us?

Bob Dunstan
Ann Arbor, MI more…

In response to: "Training in England" 1594 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Good luck with finding employment Triona.
I’ve become engrossed in your descriptions, following your journey on a map. It’s a long time since the 70’s when I visited the land of my ancestors.

Regards
Dawn
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In response to: "Stalemate for Europe" 1609 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

Yah! Thanks for your kind comments! I've just been reading how, many leaders blame Britain for EU paralysis for refusing to limit its rebate, while demanding a reform of French subsidies. If Blair manages to drive reform in farming subsidies, New Zealand is waiting on the sideline to take advantage of any reductions.
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In response to: "Strip Europe back" 1610 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

An enlightening exposition of some EU problems (schoolbus). I don't see how the poorer nations in the EU will manage if richer members don't all 'strip back' their agricultural subsidies. So France has the most massive EU subsidies and Britain the least (or does it?) because there are fewer farmers. more…

In response to: "Strip Europe back" 1611 days old
by thespos [Member]

thanks for the comments and, yup, I don't think the european parliament would want me, which is fine cos I don't really care to mix with them either. Chuck 'em out and start again. more…

In response to: "Strip Europe back" 1611 days old
by MichaelStMark ^Pro

Indeed. Corruption HATES truth. more…