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   rose22's Blogs in April 2008
What's wrong with getting together?
Just seen a news story that I thought was an April fool, but it's not.  A crematorium in Southampton is offering a pay-per-view service for mourners to be able to grieve from home.  No, no, no.  This is ridiculous.  There are many things that you can and should do on......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-01 10:20:00 |  Rating: | Views: 76 | Comments: 0 | Tags: society  death  life  funerals  interactivity  getting together  goodbye  
Politicians' sex lives and scandalous behaviour
In an interview with GQ magazine, Nick Clegg was asked about the quantity and quality of his sex life, and whether he'd ever taken drugs, and almost answered the questions. (For American readers of my blog: contrary to popular belief the UK has a multiparty democracy. Nick Clegg is......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-01 11:50:00 |  Rating: | Views: 177 | Comments: 0 | Tags: politics  politicians  sex  scandal  behaviour  generation X  generation Y  anglosaxon  vote 
Bye bye teeth?
Unforeseen result of our car crash - a couple of my teeth seem to be dying off, several are not exactly happy and boy are they letting me know it.  Front top ones worst affected.  Not ideal. I really don't want to have to go through more dentistry after so many years of braces etc.,......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-03 12:03:57 |  Rating: | Views: 102 | Comments: 0 | Tags: teeth  accident  car crash  health  prayer  religion  faith 
Yay! New blog links!
Hooray!  I've finally managed to make a linkback to my blogcatalog.com listing.  Better than that, I've added my shiny new brag badges for the www.bloggerschoiceawards.com  nominations onto my profile (so if you want to vote for me, just click the links)! Oh and -ahem-......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-05 16:15:49 |  Rating: | Views: 92 | Comments: 0 | Tags: blog  blogging  awards  nominations  catalog  catalogue 
Government in chatrooms - intrusion or good egov?
Do we really want representatives of government joining in our discussions on social networking sites? I came across this story on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7326992.stm and found that Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office Minister for e-government has also blogged on the issue......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-06 11:25:17 |  Rating: | Views: 181 | Comments: 0 | Tags: government  politics  egov  e-government  health  mumsnet  netmums  facebook  breastfeeding  BBC  Tom Watson MP  intrusion  chatrooms 
Taking off stabilizers- into the private sector
As of today, I am no longer married to a civil servant.  Yep, my husband is quitting the civil service, the stability that we've had for a long time.  It's how we met, sort of. In a world where we could be heading towards recession, it could seem like lunacy to move out of the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-11 12:23:33 |  Rating: | Views: 104 | Comments: 1 | Tags: public sector  private sector  government  money 
Is Belgium French or German? (Citroen thinks so)
Ok, ok, I used to live there. Belgium is not French or German.  I know Belgium is Belgian, or Flemish and Walloon depending on your political viewpoint... but I'm perplexed by the TV advertisement for the new big Citroen C5 that's currently on UK TV. The campaign itself is a bit......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-14 06:03:17 |  Rating: | Views: 177 | Comments: 0 | Tags: citroen  car  advertisement  ads  TV  Germany  France  Belgium  Europe 
End of an era - goodbye
... Gwyneth Dunwoody MP has died aged 77. That probably doesn't mean much to a lot of people, she wasn't a minister (nor I should point out despite the title was she a relative!) but she was significant. She was the longest serving female MP - almost 40 years in the House of Commons. She was......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-18 10:12:32 |  Rating: | Views: 101 | Comments: 0 | Tags: politics  parliament  transport  Gwyneth Dunwoody  obituary  RIP 
Politics and Social Networking - making it work
This is fascinating. According to this story on the BBC, the Danish prime minister  Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the most popular European politician, and only just behind Arnold Schwartzenegger in the number of friends he has.  This is of course on Facebook ......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-19 17:17:03 |  Rating: | Views: 108 | Comments: 2 | Tags: politics  networks  networking  government  internet  social networking  Denmark  Facebook  Linked-in  Twitter  Bebo 
Becoming part of the IT crowd...
If this works, this blog will be accessible via technorati.com.  Woohoo! <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/w6fjjx4ffc" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>...Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-21 16:09:37 |  Rating: | Views: 82 | Comments: 0 | Tags: blog