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Aurel's laurels 2008 to 2012
Blogs I love. I can only keep up with this list by reading the most recent.
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THE BIDDING WAR - REVIEW OF 2024 CROW’S THEATRE PRODUCTION - Reviewed by James Karas Many years ago, I was having lunch with a friend on a busy commercial street in Toronto that had numerous real estate offices. He a...
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Museum Opening of 2021: Carnavalet Paris - The *Apollo Awards* have been celebrated since 1992 with fine ceremonies. It’s still as important as ever to celebrate outstanding achievements in the m...
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Halifax, West Yorkshire - *Wool and stone and dancing light* They would not have called it a trading hub in the 1770s, when it was built, but the Piece Hall in Halifax was just t...
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OUR FRENCH CLASS IS ON TUESDAY MORNINGS. - We usually catch up on our homework first thing. Sometimes it's harder than others, and nothing to do with the verbs! It's very Novemberish weather here ...
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MESSY BOOTS AND POCKETS OF JOY - Do you recall two movies starring Kate Winslet titled 'Hideous Kinky' and 'Kinky Boots'? The first was based on a memoir by a woman whose mother cobbled ...
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Just a simple message - I am writing on behalf of Tom Stevenson. He wanted to tell you that he has been ill for the past 5 weeks and he is still recovering and will need help f...2 weeks ago
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Don't Stay Under the Coven Tree - Now here in the shade of the Coven Tree-- Just Bilbo, and Thorin, and Gandalf and me. Bound for trouble--*sic transit gloria*-- Our quest simple--a tas...5 weeks ago
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Could I persuade you to meditate? - I know, I know - where are you going to make time to meditate? (The irony being that if you meditate, time feels less 'stressy' and squeezed as your min...2 months ago
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Check out Another Angry Voice on Substack - During the Another Angry Voice heyday I was getting huge amounts of traffic from Facebook and Twitter, but I've gradually been tuned down to such an exte...
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Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith - *Return to Valetto* by Dominic Smith is a virtual vacation to one of my favorite places in the world. Years ago my parents rented an Umbrian villa to cel...
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What Size Are Party Invitations - What Size Are Party Invitations. Be it invitation size, leaflet size, letter size, or poster size, it is necessary to choose the right size for the best ...2 years ago
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Interview #3 with Leslie McBay, intimacy director for Alumnae Theatre Company’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s “In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play”. - Alumnae Theatre Company’s production (running April 8-23, 2022) is directed by Victoria Shepherd, who also gets a few Q&As. Interviewed March 30, 2022 by ...2 years ago
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New stories about the crazy people who shop and work in supermarkets. - Just when you think there are no more stories of crazy customers or even crazier shop workers, as illustrated in my book Supermarket Creatures, along,...
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distance - I called this poem the 6 foot social distancing love Waltz Blues.... Waltz Come close, but not too close That's good No, that's 5 foot 10 inches Step back, a...4 years ago
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Found Word OTD: AAKMRUZ - MAZURKA: a lively Polish dance in triple time. I actually found this one while playing HQ trivia. Anyone else into that?5 years ago
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Uber Diaries: Respect the Grind - (Note: This is a story I wrote for an upcoming book. This one didn't make the final cut, but I still like it.) Pickup: Sentinel Hotel The passenger is ave...5 years ago
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Tuesday, September 11 - In the morning we join the other guests and the large orange cat on the terrace for breakfast. This cat is as big as my two cats together. Why do I end up...
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Love Remembered - My mother left when I was only a girl. I wish I could say she got in a car and drove away. That would be an easier story to tell. But that isn’t the route...5 years ago
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Thank you for the music... all good things come to an end... - Happy to be home! For those of you who have been diligent and followed my journey and stories and long winded essays, you will know I have revived this blo...
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Cara Mengatasi Paru Paru Basah - Paru-paru basah merupakan penyakit yang serius. Jika tidak segera diatasi, maka penyakit ini akan menimbulkan akibat yang fatal pada tubuh manusia. Cara ...
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183) Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra – “Somethin’ Stupid” - When Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960, one of the benefits of being Chairman of the Board was artistic freedom. Between his more standard offerings,...7 years ago
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ELLE - The reality of true sado-masochism is not a bit of BDSM fun and games in the bedroom, it is the horrific brutality of violence and rape and the complex psy...7 years ago
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PR in 2017: buy a bunker - In PR we talk about reaching out and cutting through. We craft messaging that will engage that poised and docile mob we call ‘the public’. In 2016 –a year ...7 years ago
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At the end of a decade... - In about a month I will celebrate my 75th birthday. For the last ten years I have shared regularly, entertained some difficult themes, grappled with diffi...
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The Joys of Aging - Getting old is a royal pain in the nether regions. The systems start acting up more and more. Bits and pieces of the machinery that were just getting by be...8 years ago
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Finding Words - Something that I have started doing in the last year is writing poetry. I was struggling with a novel (my usual state) and decided to take a step back, to ...8 years ago
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..hello... - ..hello...my name is lori...and how i loved blogland and this space, so many lovely friends...still hoping to come back...still have the same issues wit...
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My Happy Diversion - All over the world today, there is trouble. Every news headline, every post on Facebook, every Tweet serves to remind us what a dangerous place our planet...
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New Blog - I will now be posting on a new blog, *Tess Abroad. *Check out my thoughts on living on a new side of the Atlantic. Here's the link9 years ago
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Make A Green Choice - Life is precious, yet so very fragile. We see it on the news, we read it in the papers, we feel it every time we think about our loved ones, we even not...
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This Blog is Now Inactive - Please visit my new blog at *SK Waller Blog* (Be sure to update your blog list!)
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Weird - Most students of English are familiar with the "i before e, except after c" mnemonic rule of thumb. If one is unsure whether a word is spelled with t...9 years ago
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Postscript One - Except for the weather, and its aftermath, life seems to have slowed down to a crawl for us, my husband and me, until last Thanksgiving. Thanks to the Int...
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that blazing ball of fire in the sky - *click photo for full-size image* *photo by Donald Kinney* *click photo for full-size image* *photo by Donald Kinney* *NEWEST EDITION - **Donald Kinn...9 years ago
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Madiba sunshine. Amandla ! - Mandela est là « Je suis fondamentalement optimiste. Je ne saurais dire si c’est dans ma nature ou si je l’ai cultivé. Une partie de ce qui fait un optimis...
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Are you tired of being lied to? - I have been silent for some time now. I was very busy sorting out all the contradictory and devious informations being fed to me by mass medias all more o...11 years ago
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¿Inspiración? - Lo primero que me ha venido a la mente al ver esta fotografía de Grace Kelly de los 50’s ha sido la similitud con uno de los diseños de Raf Simons para la ...
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grandson sander - [image: Image Hosted by PicturePush - Photo Sharing] [image: Image Hosted by PicturePush - Photo Sharing] monochrome acrylic 2O x 2O cm. on canvas.11 years ago
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Neurotic mothers - I doubt I am alone in being a neurotic mother, but I felt I had to confess, because my babies are now grown-ups, so it's not like I can do something simple...12 years ago
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In Loving Memory - It is with deep sadness that we write today as a family to tell you of the passing of Moannie on Monday 8th October 2012. We would like you all to know th...12 years ago
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New Blog - I'm leaving Blogger and Google and moving to a new site. I'll keep this blog up for as an archive. But this is the last post I'm making here. You can find ...12 years ago
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Move Over, Ronnie Burkett - Mention shadow puppets and most people think of making rabbit or cock shadows with their hands during an overhead presentation in primary school. But sit...
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TheSartorialist.com RSS Feed - Hi guys, Thanks so much for the feedback. It’s been great seeing the response and really hearing about how people use the site. One thing we’ve been getti...13 years ago
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Lancashire, where women die of love. - I'm currently reading a book with this implausible title, by Charles Nevin. It's a wryly entertaining love letter to the county where, like me, Charles was...13 years ago
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Must the Winter Come So Soon? - As I type this entry, I'm looking out my bedroom window at the Storm of 2011, that has swept across most of the middle of the country. My yard is covered i...
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Shaving Kit Supplies Vintage - I'm dusting off Please Sir and slowly returning to the blogosphere with new aspirations and inspiring ideas. I apologize for the long absence, but I needed...
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Ultima Lezione. - *Ti ricordi? Eravamo turisti con poche parole?* Do you remember?We were tourists with few words? * L'abbraccio nel vicolo?* The hug in the alley? *...
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NaNoWriMo: Day 3 (Bad, bad day) - Migraines: 1 (big fat mumma of a headache!) Analgesia: (almost) anything that came to hand Daily word count: zero Total word count: 3167 :((14 years ago
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I really do mean to write but it ain't gonna happen - I know there's been nothing public here for six months, but I'm here every day and I often start posts. Most of them just get deleted and a few of them are...14 years ago
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That Is All - I've decided to suspend this blog. I'm going to make it private as it is a good journal of photos, and sources for me. Thanks to all who have joined in th...
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"All That's Left Behind..." - *The Cheshire Cat begins to fade away, it's his smile the last to go...*
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The Victorian Bushfires - Remembering - A peaceful space and supportive thoughts. It's an entire year since the devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia - when so many families lost their li...
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String Theory: The Final Quote - On this final day (okay, night) of BBAW, here is one last bookish quote, from the inimitable Virginia Woolf:“Books have a great deal in common; they are al...
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Hello - I haven't been able to access blogger.com for two months now. Now it seems we have limited access here. I still can't access others' blogs. I'm doing good....15 years ago
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A Makeovah - Yes, I did spend my entire summer in Los Angeles. Yes, it was incredible. No, I didn't blog about it, and here's why: I BARELY HAD TIME TO EVEN EAT. Serio...
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A black hole? Or a naked singularity? Or just a big blow hard?
Sometimes I stand in awe of what human beings are capable of engineering...
I recently visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (California), and was completely blown away by some of the old machines and methods of computing... Awesome...
AphotoAday: and you took some excellent pictures there, one turning out like pop art of the sixties.
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