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People Who Emote in Cinemas

February 6th, 2010 WelshPixie 6 comments

4pm and we were flopped on the sofa contemplating life in an un-air-conditioned bungalow in the middle of a South African summer. Not good. Usually when we’re fed up of the heat we escape to the nearest mall and go to see a movie, but there was absolutely nothing on at our mall here that [...]

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Another little bit of ‘insane’, straight from America

January 25th, 2010 WelshPixie 5 comments

(As if a story like this could originate anywhere else in the world!)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/oral-sex-defininition-prompts-school-district-to-pull-dictionaries.html
This is absolutely crazy. I wonder how many of these people have read 1984 and how many of them see the irony in their actions. I’m willing to bet it’s a minimal percentage. Here’s the article -

‘Oral sex’ definition prompts school district to [...]

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Yet another Haitian-inspired Moral Dilemma.

January 19th, 2010 WelshPixie 3 comments

I was going to spend today in a blissfully ignorant haze of computer gaming with nothing more tedious to occupy my wee brain cells than ’shall I do some trade runs between space stations or go pew-pew some space pirates?’. Then I visited the Twitter page of a friend, followed through on some links, and [...]

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View from the house

July 25th, 2009 WelshPixie 2 comments

A couple of pics of the view from our house.

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Brrr

July 16th, 2009 WelshPixie 9 comments

It was a chilly 6 degrees C in my neck of the woods at 7am this morning! After just about getting used to days and days of 30C in the summertime I’m finding this pretty shivery, hehe. My fingies and toesies are cold and I’m snugged up on the sofa with a fluffy blankie ^.^ [...]

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