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*comes blinking out into the sunshine*
*waves* Hello everyone. So yeah...it's been awhile. I've spent the last three weeks consumed (as I am every year) by the Grand Boucle aka Le Tour de France and oh boy what a race it was this year ( Read more... ) -
Happy 4th July
...to all the Americans on my flist & elsewhere.
* And in case you're wondering, no we're still not at all bothered about the loss of the colonies *g* -
O Canada!!!
I really need a general Canada icon, but in the meantime this one will have to do so...
Happy Canada day to all the Canadians out there!!!
Hope you and your awesome country have a lovely day
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The perfect antidote...
...to the game this afternoon (I can't bear to watch, want Germany to win too much - yes I'm English, no I can't stand the England football team, next question) is this wonderful video which came to my attention thanks to both mylodon and Stephen Fry's twitter feed
There aren't words for how much I love this song and video *squee ( Read more... ) -
People will talk of this in reverential hushed tones...
...and a lucky few will be able to say 'I was there ( Read more... ) -
Class act from a class act
Despite the fact there were times I disagreed with decisions Rafa Benetiz made over team selection or players bought/sold, I never had any problems with him as a person. Indeed I always thought he was a true class act. Despite there being no reason for him to truly understand stuff like Hillsborough and the impact it's had and continues to have, ( Read more... ) -
Remembering Valley Parade
I was reading the BBC Sport website last week and was very surprised to read some of the comments on the blog done by the Football Focus team - they did the show from Bradford not this past weekend, but the one before as that was Bradford's last home game of the season ( Read more... ) -
Things that make you go awwwww
One month old (roughly) Amur Leopard cubs at a zoo in Estonia (link is to Amur leopard live webcam page, just pick the 'nest camera'.
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Opera wars - Day Two
There have been plenty of tears and tantrums at Chez HVF tonight as I've tried to sort out the problem with Opera - the one where the bastard thing has taken it upon itself to just delete a whole shed load of bookmark folders - and nothing has bloody worked. Ran full system scan and Spybot just in case that was the problem (not that I thought it ( Read more... ) -
Browser rage
Firstly let me state that I know I did something dumb in not having already added all the stuff to Firefox, but I don't need that pointing out to me okay ( Read more... )
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