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Tea with the Queen

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

We went to Windsor to visit the Queen!!
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John Howard and Australian Satire

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

(I do not endorse the google ads that have appeared on the left hand menu due to search words in my blog, especially the ’say thanks to Tony Blair’ one)

Now to the satire…

a quick background note as I understand it. Richard Neville - long-time satirist and social commentator - registered the domain name: johnhowardpm.org

Published on this website was a satirical speech ‘given by’ the PM to coalition supporters regarding decisions made about the Iraq War. Within 24 hours the site was blocked! The speech is still available from various other sites around the web and below is part of the postscript that was attached to one of the sites in order to explain the satirical nature of the speech and the weird response it has gotten…
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Cotswolds in Spring

Saturday, March 18th, 2006
After catching up with Alexis, Tim and Sandy in Oxford on Friday night, Camilla met me on Saturday and we spent a leisurley morning wandering around Oxford. I was on a mission to find some more gargoyles for Mole, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Castles and Carcassonne

Saturday, March 11th, 2006
In January Fiona and I noted Ryanair were doing another of their 'flights at £0' sales, where you only pay for taxes. So we decided to give it a whirl, but the rules were we had to go somewhere neither ... [Continue reading this entry]