tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:47:22 +0000to do listphotoBlack Princeadvancement of scienceMccannwavesBreconbridgevillageBoughroodCrowhurstllandrindodphilosophychessevolutionslightly less than its title suggestshttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)Blogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-6909286814033989161Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +00002009-11-14T10:24:32.099ZSpotted near Llangoed 11th novemberhttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/11/ent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-773585399231840544Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:55:00 +00002009-09-09T22:11:36.036+01:00Here is a picture of me today sitting on a beach in Tenby. Yesterday I was looking at some photographs taken by my facebook friend Vikash among which was was his picture of a piece of bird shit on a wall which he entitled 'Guano'.Here on the beach in Tenby I am trying to work out how I might comment on this picture that is to say I am actually thinking about Guano. Would you believe it that 10 http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/09/bird-shit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-5611499812223690070Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:17:00 +00002009-04-16T21:21:17.431+01:00Just had a visit from the Breton town with which Brecon is twinned and our guest told us the following.“the lady Mayoress (she came with them) … ..her father he is ill and she tell them if anything happen to Papa put him in the cold room until the weekend.”http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/04/vive-la-france.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-4253593432070278203Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:53:00 +00002009-03-04T20:05:28.843ZToday I left the house and crossed the road into the field opposite and began climbing up the side of a hill. For the next hour and twenty minutes I didn’t meet or see another human being . Here is a snap about 2/3rds up.I remember in the sixties there was chap called Stan , who like the Rev Dr Donald Soper used to appear regularly at Tower Hill not far from the Tigers Head. Stan would http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-humanity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-6566883444303115489Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:18:00 +00002009-03-06T17:27:51.648ZOnce again I have slipped the surly bounds of obesity and am now well ensconced in the land of the ‘moderately overweight’ . Thus in the words of a group that may perhaps once have been known as ‘10 fluid ounces ‘ I'm not obeseSo don’t forget itIt’s just a silly pie I am working through http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/02/and-deflate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-2571162277094352355Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:49:00 +00002009-01-23T20:12:33.387ZFrom the Brokers ForumTue 13 Jan 2009 @ 19:33 I dont believe it... Post #1 Douglas Mcleod Alan Johnston once said that I read more and more like Victor Meldrew - I fear he could be right.This morning I went to get my eyes tested and by this afternoon I had received the following letter by email.Dear Mr McLeodUnfortunately, during the course of your recent appointment with me, I consider that thehttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/01/wwwinsuranceagecom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-514583154420369290Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:00 +00002009-01-08T17:57:40.980ZThe Rev Canon James Tipp, 63, received the life-long ban after abandoning his wife and his Snodland parish in February 2008 to set up home with Elaine Northern, 54.Northern was given a 12-year ban for her part in the scandal, which left the congregation at Christ Church stunned.At a disciplinary hearing, Mr Tipp, who was also Rural Dean of Cobham, received the life ban because of his higher levelhttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/01/kent-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-3304006798680142691Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:13:00 +00002009-01-04T15:24:45.583ZThe Wye at lunchtime today frozen over by the Horseshoe Bend. Today I was walking round Boughrood Brest to 'Heroes of British Jazz' and particularly liked Kenny Balls rendition of 'Your feets too big'. "....your pedal extremities are colossal, they always remind me of some old fossil"http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2009/01/feets-too-big.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-2365144505862220995Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:37:00 +00002008-12-23T10:39:07.644Zhttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/12/to-all-my-readers_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-7139838215849947955Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:34:00 +00002008-12-03T19:43:02.089Z http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/12/une-danseuse-de-tecktonik-ultra-rapide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-6089211875632550441Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:32:00 +00002008-11-23T18:14:19.923ZYesterday 22nd November with heavy snow predicted for London I understood perfectly the line in the sonnet But thy eternal summer shall not fade. Ann made me mow the grass. Perhaps he could have added If I've got anything to do with it just to make it crystal clear.Erica , who is 89, was telling us about a pig from her childhood called Horace and how intelligent he was but they still ate him. I http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/11/understanding-shakespear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-3679412322120165834Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:11:00 +00002008-10-07T20:40:40.685+01:00Absolutely nothing to do - pretended to do something in a notebook for the last hour of the day in the hope I wouldnt get spotted.Tomorrow I might try, 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' a few thousand times. Perhaps I could take an axe to work in my briefcaseI curse Freecell you mouse the X and scream silently dive , dive, dive but another window pops up and asks if you are sure you http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/10/cila.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-3656260842248916566Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:51:00 +00002008-06-30T13:42:48.024+01:00High above the Wye on the way to Builth Wells just beyond Erwood there are some very small quarry like cuts into the exposed rock. Break off a piece of this and you will find it contains a fossilised seabed which is now several hundred feet above the river valley twisting below. Here you will find some Silurian whelk intact after a brief and uninteresting life on the seabed 400 million years ago.http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/06/rocky-whelk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-133196256205169739Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:35:00 +00002008-06-17T12:45:10.824+01:00I cant get into the office toilet at present because there is a resident rat which has not yet moved on. Why cant I get a job at Googlehttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/06/bog-standard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-1842743826266638495Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:30:00 +00002008-06-02T19:51:58.694+01:00Day 2 of twinning trip Brecon to Gouesnou in Brittany near Brest. To mark 20th anniversary a tree planting ceremony. Anns friend has not turned up and Ann is worried as she is not in the best of health and this is her first trip with the twinners. Ann speaks to Phillip one of the local organisers. The ceremony continues to the end and then the microphone stutters again and Phillip's voice http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-year-it-was-their-turn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-1478081705469735759Tue, 20 May 2008 13:28:00 +00002008-05-20T14:32:24.153+01:00 Three-quarters of drinkers do not know a typical glass of wine contains three units of alcohol, a survey for the Department of Health suggests. And how many commentators including the fellow who wrote these reams know what a ‘unit’ actually is? I don’t know and I don’t care but these people are taking it seriously so might be expected to know of what they are talking. a typical glass of wine http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/05/drinkers-ignorant-about-alcohol.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-3101924986206247936Sun, 11 May 2008 09:18:00 +00002008-05-11T10:20:10.301+01:00This year I have mainly been cutting the grass to the accompaniment of ‘Deaf School’ following the recommendation of Icedink. However for the making of beds I find Bonnie Tyler , ‘Holding on for a hero’ very hard to beat.http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/05/functions-of-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-2480645663113535347Sat, 10 May 2008 10:31:00 +00002008-05-10T11:36:48.690+01:00At Hay Literary Festival they occasionally have events that interest me.This year Boris Spassky is to play a simultaneous exhibition against 20 people and so I applied as directed on their website.Email to HLF26th April 2008Good morning,I would like to play Mr Spassky.ThanksNo replyBefore the brochure had been published and distributed I noticed on the website that the event was full – no http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/05/different-boris.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-5960119431528137041Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:22:00 +00002008-04-28T14:27:53.104+01:00Saturday before last we were sitting in Oscars at Hay on Wye having a coffee. As I sat there I remembered that an ex customer named Adrian lived round the corner. I hadn’t seen him or even thought about him for 10 years but 3 days earlier he had suddenly come into my head. Adrian was a good musician and I thought he would be the one to recommend a local band or DJ or whatever they call them as wehttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/04/no-wonder-im-so-cheerful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-632771782367403632Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:26:00 +00002008-04-18T18:30:37.730+01:00I like trip adviser and there are some great reviews in Top 10 Dirty Hotels. Really loved the English number 1 in Oxford. I am tempted to try it for a night.http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/04/five-star.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-7406552185870952971Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:47:00 +00002008-03-30T11:58:24.748+01:00So they intend reducing the permitted blood alcohol level further for drivers.I remember when the evidence for road accident frequency and alcohol was first used to justify a law change.The published graphs showed an exponential increase in accident frequency compared with individual alcohol consumption. But on the far left of this chart, before the accidents and the alcohol started mounting up http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-for-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-3421601184549650968Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:17:00 +00002008-03-25T09:29:18.659ZI can say Deoxyribonucleic without a conscious thought but Cardamom I cannot say without my face screwing up in concentration and spelling it first in my head and then reading the image phonetically. Why should this be?http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/03/put-it-in-curry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-6142341695904694369Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:01:00 +00002008-03-15T12:05:16.229ZMe to the Brecon & RadnorPlease advise - have you got a new editor yet ? Who is it? I hope its not that awful fellow who took my letter - changed the heading, inserted a photograph and a cartoon and manufactured a letter which was about logic into an anti Welsh piece for his own purposes. Citizen Kane he was not. I need to know to see whether it is safe to send anything in.Brecon & Radnorhttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/03/press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-343015061420908553Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:57:00 +00002008-03-09T09:59:08.427ZBut with extenuating circumstances – I only wanted to play chess not to have to listen to another awful american going on about how good he was. Dear stanfordlehope ,Your Electronic Arts Pogo account has been issued a warning for violating the Terms of Service for Electronic Arts Online.Violation: Use of inappropriate languageTransmit or facilitate distribution of Content that is harmful, http://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/03/guilty-mlud.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15149698.post-4045177221004273536Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:09:00 +00002008-03-02T20:16:40.063Zhttp://boughrood.blogspot.com/2008/03/mothering-sunday-incedent-at-rhosgoch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MacDuff)0