The Sound Suite Cocoon

Starting A Business From Nothing Or I How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Unemployment

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:32:07 PDT

Dear Folks, The time has come to take a different turn - I shall explain further... After twenty odd years of drifting from one substandard job to another, I finally jumped ship from my fairly...

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Taking The Reins Or How To Ride Smack The Pony

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:28:50 PDT

Taking a leaf out of the ancient theory of 'door kept open' for material, the largely credited, 'Smack The Pony,' did just that. Appealing to the most daring of new comedy writers, this brave sketch...

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I is for Illusionists...

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:41:01 PDT

Derren Brown - Inside A Box With The Thinking Woman's Crumpet... From the most ordinary of beginnings in the clutches of Croydon in Surrey, a young University student by the name of Derren Brown...

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Off Yer bike, My Dear!

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:05:26 PDT

Whilst rambling around my depressed town early this morning on my poor excuse for a mountain bike, a surprising thing occurred... Now, bearing in mind I usually ride without a helmet and on the...

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Beatles for Sale... and then again, just about anything else for that matter

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:53:06 PDT

So, the time has come - it must be just about the one and only saying being used rather flippantly in recent times. We are all losing a grip on reality. We read on a daily basis how many jobs are...

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Vatican Forgives John Lennon's 'Bigger Than Jesus' Speech

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:26:28 PST

It has to be one of the most famous misquotes of the 20th Century, yet this week, the Catholic church have "pardoned" Beatle front man, John Lennon as it is 40 years since Lennon was reported to have...

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Propaganda Puppet Mickey Mouse Turns 80 And He's Still the Political Nazi Figure

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:35:40 PST

Mickey Mouse is 80 this week - there are very few entertainment figures in front of him - Fats Domino springs to mind, yet those early days of Mr Mouse where dark. He was banned from Germany in WW2...

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The Reason Why I Call Myself Planet Janet...

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:48:42 PST

Or rather not these days... Thirty-ish, pen pushing, council worker living south of London. People have asked me why I call myself Planet Janet - it is not only my name here but also... It is the...

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By The Way, Which One's Pink...?

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:38:06 PDT

In the midst of the psychedelic sixties, a band emerged from the haze of the darkest London suburbs called The Abdabs. In 1965, three ordinary guys named Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright...

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Why Women Live Longer And Are Happier Than Men

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:19 PST

It is well reported that women do live longer than men, yet does this mean we live happier lives, and should we blame this on the bonds we have from carrying children? Researchers in the UK seem to...

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Have Your Teacake And Eat It: How The Price Of A Cake Takes The Biscuit...

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:19 PST

It just goes to show how much the cost of simple Value Added Tax can be to the humble taxpayer. Today, the UK Treasury is having to cough up a massive £3.5m bill, because the wrong VAT was added to a...

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Confessions Of A Giant Panda Finally FIlmed

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:19 PST

If there has ever been an animal on this Earth who has had to endure a very public sex life, it has to be the Giant Panda. Despite the fact that this animal seems to rarely "get it on," the reasons...

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The Art Of Block Voting On Eurovish Or How The Cold War Is Alive And Singing

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:19 PST

So another year has passed and the event of the centenary from which was born the phrase, “Euro-trash” has come and gone, yet the result of the pop-lacking, spine-curling Eurovision Song Contest (or...

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A Few Of My Favourite Things - A Profile....

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:20 PST

Headline: Taking Views Beyond The Fridge Hometown: London Neighborhood: Okay during the daytime Local Favorites: The eldery chap who lives at number 2 and the two Border Collies...

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The Tragedy Of A Much Loved And Irreplacable Children's Entertainer

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:20 PST

Mark Speight, who has been missing for six days, has been found dead at a London train station, presumed hanged. It is the end of a tragic story of two people of incredible talent, and lives...

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Dear Mo - Let It Rest. Is The Title Of Murder What You Really Really Want...?

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:20 PST

The verdict on the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and her companion, Dodi al Fayed has resulted in "gross negligence" at the hands of Henri Paul and the paparazzi, yet Mr al...

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Pink Hair, Bad Taste And Good All Round Sauce - Show Us Your Fuzzbox

noreply@blogger.com (Michelle Duffy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:20 PST

Somewhere back in the early to mid Eighties, (no one exactly knows when) four dizzy school girls got together and decided to do something with their lives in Birmingham rather than be destined to...

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There's A Worm In My Head And A Fish In The Bed