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Dad has died, in hospital, in California. We had just decided, yesterday, to stop the interventions and take him home, but he didn't last that long. (He did last twenty years longer than we would have predicted twenty years ago, and he had quite clearly finished.)

This seems a good moment to dig out That List.

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( Pye Fen, last weekend. Fennier than usual. )

Stoneleigh (Nicole Foss) from The Automatic Earth is talking tomorrow evening, Thursday, 7:30pm, at CB1 on Mill Road, on peak oil and financial collapse. She's good, and this has been organised at very short notice and I've seen very little publicity. I've been to three of her talks now, and she fills much larger venues, and audiences are engaged ( Read more... )

You know how I bang on about the Victorian drainage here not having been designed for our current rainfall?


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Who is voting for the NHS reform bill, and why?

http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.com/2012/02/nhs-privatisation-compilation-of.html