There are some really fantastic comments on 
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Dear chums

Do you know the 'suggest a spotlight' function on the LJ homepage? It's where interesting journals / groups are listed (3 at a time I think) - I friended one once for being on there, and he ended up with hundreds of LJ friends. I keep the

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Perhaps I should be working, but then it is not good to work everyday and I did decide to have a Sunday's off policy ( Read more... )

I'm still very much awake, so thought I'd post random things ( Read more... )

This is awesome! Looks like someone very childish has been playing on the met police careers site. I approve :)

In case they take this down, which they must do soon, it is a picture on the homepage:


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So, christian church leaders speaking out about islam seems to be a reasonably bad idea then.
Church of England Bishop Dr Nazir-Ali says the archbishop is wrong about aspects of Sharia law needing to be considered in our legal system (I agree with him here - then it all gets a bit fuzzy). This is the same bishop who said that the rise of muslim ( Read more... )

It's quite early, I'm watching the news and people are annoying me by talking nonsense before I've even finished my cup of tea. It's all a bit surreal this morning since the home office are being the voice of reason ... I think I will need another cup after this.

The police used very scientific stuff to convict that Suffolk serial killer, and that ( Read more... )

Hello, those of you who can sew.

I am going to make a robe at some point in the future (not right now) does anyone know where I can get patterns from that might be helpful?

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Celia Hammond, the cat rescue charity, have rescued 168 cats from a demolition site where they are building an olympic park. Sounds like a lot but it seems there are many more now trapped inside the site. The Olympic Delivery Authority allowed rescue workers in to rescue some but have now decided that, although they would be there at night so not ( Read more... )