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Month: April 2005

Birthday !!

19 April, 2005 by Alistair

Its my birthday on Monday. Not doing anything major like last year maybe just going out for a wee meal and a bottle of nice red wine or something. Red Wine……yummy. Funny though…..I have started a bit of a gin and tonic thing the last month or so as well!! For the sake of my…

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Lobster ‘front’ targets fisherman

19 April, 2005 by Alistair

A BBC story about an animal rights group that targets a lobster fisherman. A fisherman has become the latest victim of an animal rights group targeting the Dorset lobster industry. Former soldier Nick Ford, who has worked out of Kimmeridge Bay for 17 years, has had his nets slashed. A group calling itself the Lobster…

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The OSSCAS

17 April, 2005 by Alistair

Just for fun I entered myself into the OSSCAS competition . = Organic Shadows SITE CONTENT Awards. Here is a little blurb There are so many competitions going on around the place that are focussed on design and layout that we thought it might be a good idea to do a backflip, twist to the…

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A poem I remember !

15 April, 2005 by Alistair

‘Visiting Hour’ by Norman McCaig The hospital smell combs my nostrils as they go bobbing along green and yellow corridors. What seems a corpse is trundled into a lift and vanishes heavenward. I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to. Nurses walk lightly, swiftly, here and up and down and there,…

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Who to vote for? 2

15 April, 2005 by Alistair

I have found a Tory stance on angling……..youwill need the pdf acrobat reader

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Using IE ?getting a funny error messege?

13 April, 2005 by Alistair

If you are using IE and are getting this messege a runtime error has occured Do you wish to debug? line:116 error:’google ad client’ is null or not an an object” It is not a problem with the blog it is in fact a problem with Explorer. I use firefox so never noticed it. To…

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Me and a Sheep

13 April, 2005 by Alistair

For no other reason than not actually having a reason here is a picture of me and a sheep

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Who to vote for?

12 April, 2005 by Alistair

In case the UK readers have not noticed there is a general election coming up pretty soon. It throws up many questions about who to vote for. In the past I would probably have voted for the green party but after their pretty intense …and I can only call in anti angling manifesto I do…

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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

9 April, 2005 by Alistair

At the moment I could honestly say that when I am sleeping it is the only time I am truly happy. I was kinda hoping to head down to another river in the morning but to be honest things do not look good with the rain pouring down. Bring back the Winter…………..it seemed more like…

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New Guestbook entry!!

7 April, 2005 by Alistair

I recieved this messege in my guestbook so thought I would share it!! Nigel Simmonds Hi I lived in Glasgow from 2001 -2003 and had the most amazing capture in the Kelvin just below the yorkhill old mill fisheding at night 11pm (middle of the river wading)saw a salmon leap and hooked it river was…

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