This is the reason why hundreds of flights out of the UK are grounded at the moment!


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Xmas Stocking
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Any more for Christmas cards? Or, as they say on late time quiz shows where privileging one particular brand above another is frowned upon, cards that celebrate any other denominational/non-denominational religious festival? This extends to Hannukah, Hogmanay, Kračún, Kwanzaa, Brumalia, Omisoka, Junkanoo, or the "Night of the Radishes ( Read more... )

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In April 1815, Mount Tambora, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, erupted violently, releasing sulphurous clouds of ash and dust into the stratosphere. This caused freak climate abnormalities throughout the globe. The following summer, snowfall was recorded in parts of North America and Europe - for example in Albany, NY and Dennysville ( Read more... )

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Various mindnumbing dreadnoughts of the literary world currently loom on the horizon - the weeping wombs of Kate Chopin and Katherine Mansfield, Daniel Defoe's proposed modifications to eighteenth century bankruptcy laws, the traumas of life in the ex-colonies, and so on and so forth. In a bid to stave them off momentarily, I've decided to subject ( Read more... )

How is this not considered one of the best songs of the 1980s?

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This is quite possibly the most surreal thing I've heard all year. Imagine it - you're in Blackpool, the fag-end of Britain's seaside, staring without purpose into the bleak waters of the Irish Sea. Nietzsche's famous aphorism richochets around your brain: "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you". You know it will be ( Read more... )