Like an Engineer …
How was your Christmas Day? Mine went pretty well – I managed to cook a turkey and a pork roast without turning either into an inedible lump of charcoal. Today I’ve been taking it easy – but I did take [...]
Sunday Video: Merry Christmas
Scandinavia is the world’s largest producer and exporter of a Christmas necessity. Here’s a 2003 documentary about this very rare species, and a 2005 follow-up on the safety instructions…
A Scandalous Opportunity Scandalously Missed
Desperate for some Melbourne news I was reading the print edition of The Hun earlier today and I came across this item: Pascoe Vale North Primary School had its traditional Christmas party on Wednesday this week. The school served only [...]
Weekend op-heads: Jacob Marley edition
The Australian’s Christmas Carol is filled with Jacobin ghosts of Christmas’ past. Merry bloody cheese eating surrender monkeys to you good sir! This shift began in earnest in the 1960s, when the last spasms of revolutionary violence shuddered through cities [...]
The Reason for The Season…
As we indulge in an orgy of shopping, food, presents and decaying in the summer humidity, oft forgotten is the actual reason for the year end festivities. All through the year, kiddies and adults all count down to December 23rd [...]
Saturday Salon (Christmas edition)
An open thread where, at your long festive weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like. Happy Christmas and all the best of the festive season to all LP readers! We love youse all. xx
Spaminated? Email!
Just a reminder, as one’s obviously needed. If your comment doesn’t appear, it’s probably in with the spam. I just got home and found 496 comments in there, and I’m just not going to wade through all of them looking [...]
Guardian goes under cover to investigate BNP
While the rest of the Western world’s media has largely settled in for a diet of Santa-tracking and years-in-review, The Guardian has ended the year with a bang, with an extraordinary series of reports on the far-right British National Party. [...]
Happy Life Day!
Yes folks. The rumours are true. The Star Wars Holiday Special (a topic of fierce discussion -at least that is how I remember it- at the September Sydney Blog Grogathon) exists.
For your last minute steel guitar David Bowie cover needs…
I’m almost ashamed to admit, given the mad incitements and enticements to buy buy buy and thereby send kid(s) from Guangzhou to uni from “Caroline Overington Blog”, that a large part of my week has been focussed on the ever [...]
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