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Testing Technoratis claims
This is just a test blog to see if I my claim with Technorati works. Hope I've done it right.... <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/kqi6agprsr" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a> ...Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-05 11:26:16 | Rating:

| Views: 104 | Comments: 4 | Tags: technorati blog claim

Thoughts on Thoughts
If there is a writers gene then I was born with it and, in my case, it is an overactive gene! I have written since I was a child, when I first learned to read and write and, since then, I have written articles, poems, short stories, readers letters and greetings card......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-11 10:39:01 | Rating:

| Views: 131 | Comments: 11 | Tags: writer writing comments blogs

Home is a mean place
No Mean City: A Story of the Glasgow Slums (by A McArthur & H. Long), is a book based on the city of Glasgow, where I was raised as a child. The book is based on the infamous razor gangs of the late fifites and early sixties, but parts of it......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-12 11:30:01 | Rating:

| Views: 77 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Glasgow gangs police

CND - the communist conspirators?
Many years ago, I was a member of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmamament, in the UK. I paid the subsciption fee and wore a badge with the peace symbol on it but that was the extent of my 'protesting'. I never sat down in a road and got arrested for obstructing traffic. I do......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-12 13:14:59 | Rating:

| Views: 78 | Comments: 1 | Tags: nuclear weapons disarmament

Buckfast Tonic Wine
Buckfast tonic wine was originally brewed by the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey in Devon and was originally intended to be a health drink, a medicated wine. One glass to be taken daily by little old ladies and countrified gents. The monks were never in it for the money......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-13 11:49:14 | Rating:

| Views: 248 | Comments: 1 | Tags: buckfast buckie wine youth drink drunk

A code to live by
I believe this comes from Native Americans, it is not my words. I like it a LOT and would like to strive to live up to all of them. I don't always manage to come close though. A few of them are even pertinent to the forums on Thoughts so I thought it would be a good thing to share......Read More