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Please give what you can!
London Marathon this weekend!! If you haven't yet, please do consider sponsoring my dear tealight-rookie at http://www.justgiving.com/ruthsteadman. She's still got £650 to go to meet her required fundraising target, so please give what you can. No donation is too little (or too much ;-).
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Please help
My dear friend Ruth is running in the London Marathon next month on behalf of the cancer charity MacMillan, in memory of her father who died of cancer last year. (Ruth has an LJ, but I'm not sure if she wants it publicly linked to her real name).
Please go visit her donations page and give as generously as you can to this very worthy cause. And ( Read more... ) -
I know the tree of which he speaks!
There really is such a tree in Jimera, in the patio of the house Don stayed in.
Two Trees
by Don PatersonOne morning, Don Miguel got out of bed ( Read more... ) -
Funny Old World
The President issued a most amazing proclamation on 1 June, but when googled the first sentence, the only government site I could find it referenced is, strangely, NASA'sSo for your benefit, I publish the buried text here. Hooray for progress ( Read more... ) -
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If They Come in the Night
by Marge PiercyLong ago on a night of danger and vigil ( Read more... ) -
yay
Carol Ann Duffy is the new UK poet laureate! I am thrilled.
She is the first woman in the post ever and the first Scot.
BUT she is not only Scottish, not only female, she was raised Catholic, is a lesbian, a mother, and an open atheist.
Boy, that would SO never happen in America.
Click here for a selection of her poems ( Read more... )
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