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Just letting everyone who used to follow my blog (Rathbone's Rambling) on Talk Porty, that I'm back posting, this time on The Howff. If you want to follow me there cut and paste: howff.wordpress.com into your browser and then bookmark it. Simples. On there you will find a link to my book about the E...

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Until they built the sewage works at Seafield things floating up on to the beach and fouling the sand were not uncommon. You frequently had to watch where you put your feet and it wasn’t unusual for parents to stop their kids playing there altogether. When I first came on to this site it was clean s...

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If I had finished washing the dishes just one minute later I would have missed him. As it was I didn’t quite take it in the first time, but fortunately he came back at the commercial break. It was like meeting an old friend who had been away too long. Barry Scott is back and this time he is swinging...

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Back in the 1970’s I was fond of rummaging through the imports section of a little record shop in Nottinghill Gate which has long gone the way of most record shops. One day I came across the only record I have ever bought on the strength of the cover alone. It was a young guy with fashionably curly ...

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I see there’s a move afoot again to make it compulsory for kids to learn poetry by heart in school. This is something that comes around from time to time. I have mixed views about it. Michael Gove is said to be determined to make the teaching of English at primary school ''far more rigorous'' than i...

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Wasn’t that Newsnight item on Clark’s shoes last night fascinating ? Who knew they were the real sought after status symbol in Jamaica and had been for over 30 years? I’ve mentioned on here before that when I was a spotty youth the in footwear was Clark’s Wallabee Desert Boots. It turns out they wer...

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I feel almost sorry for all those poor scouts, unable to lie any more. That slight thrill when you held up your hand and pledged a duty to a god you didn’t believe in gone forever. No more wondering if there really was an all seeing eye noting down your fib and storing it up for the day of judgement...

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It’s that time of the year again when I will have to sneak off to the shops to get a present for someone who doesn’t want one. For years now Mrs. R. has said that she doesn’t want a christmas present. The problem is that the first year she said that I took her at her word. It turned out to be a mise...

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I'd pay to see Freddie Flintoff against Richard Dawkins, but last night it was Fury / Johnson And Fury won, though not to my eyes with the points margin awarded to him by the judges. What was most interesting to me was the large section of the crowd who started booing around round eight and kept it ...

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I’m looking forward to the Tyson Fury Kevin Johnson fight tonight, so it was nice to see that Freddie Flintoff won his first professional bout. I have to admit that I didn’t rate Flintoff’s chances and had Richard Dawson down as the dead cert to win that one. For a start Flintoff is getting on a bit...

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As an Architect I am regulated by an independent regulator under the terms of the Architects Registration Act 1938. That doesn’t mean that there is someone sitting next to my drawing board all the time waiting for me to cock up. What it does mean is that if any of my clients have a beef there is som...

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I scratched the top of my thigh putting on my underpants this morning. Caught it with a hangnail on the little finger of my right hand. I’ve never really thought about hangnails before. They’re just something I take for granted. Because I always get them on my right hand, where I have to use nail cl...

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I wonder what I got up to last night. At least I wouldn’t have been sending texts for the simple reason that I don’t go to bed with a mobile ‘phone. Apparently sleep specialists are now treating people who cannot be separated from their mobile, tuck them under the pillow at night and then find in th...

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I know that place, I thought. After a bit of contemplation I had it fixed. I used to have a client whose office was just a little bit further down the street, maybe a couple of doors away. What had come up on the screen was an innocuous whitewashed gabled building in a typical street in an East of E...

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Let’s just stick with the Illuminati for a bit longer. While checking out the 27 Club before yesterday’s post I came across a blog by someone called Nikki, a 20-something woman who lives in Philadelphia. Nikki believes that shadowy forces, the real power behind the power, are at play to overthrow th...

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Just listening to the radio yesterday I was struck by how many references to the Illuminati there were in the songs I was listening to. Tiny Tempah at one end of the spectrum, Fleet Foxes at the other. That also tied in with the incident in the run up to the Olympics when every motorway sign along t...

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On Wednesday afternoon I was driving down the motorway, struggling a little bit to keep the car in the lane because of the strength of the wind, when the heavens opened and the rain came down in torrents. It was so heavy that even with the wipers on full it was impossible to see anything in front. T...

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No broadband yesterday. That’s happened before so I waited for it to come back on. Nothing by late afternoon, so I ‘phoned BT. It turns out that they were doing work on the telephone exchange. Service would be restored at around 2.a.m. I could get details if I went on to the BT website. I didn’t ask...

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Okay, so maybe I got a wee bit partisan about Hibs firing their announcer last week, but that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? It’s being partisan that makes football work. I can even get partisan about teams that I have no involvement in. I will be cheering on AFC Wimbledon when they meet MK Dons o...

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Let’s just get this misapprehension out of the way. I am not Oregano Rathbone. I’ve now had to explain that point a couple of times, usually to people who didn’t believe me anyway and then started berating me for being too modest. Yesterday it was to my next door neighbour, of all people, who had pu...

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I’m trying to give them up. For a start they aren’t good for my health. They are addictive. They take up a disproportionate part of my income and they are a source of friction between me and my wife. We have an occasional table next to the couch. On it are a rather scabby potted palm, a bowl of oran...

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I’ve been following my nephew’s adventures in Dubai on his facebook page. He’s out there allegedly working but, if he is to be believed, seems to be spending his time either lounging with a beer next to a pool or else in a nightclub with a beer ogling scantily clad girls. I’ve been to Dubai four tim...

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I had to change a light bulb last night, an increasingly rare phenomenon. We now have just two old incandescent bulbs left in operation. I assume that they will go in the next year or so. The box that the new fluorescent bulb came in said it had a ten year life expectancy. A few things occurred to m...

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Would you have played it? I would.... it was too good an opportunity to miss. I held back on forming a final view on the ‘Taxman’ debacle until I had read Hibs official statement. Instead of clarifying things it was couched in language that just added to my disquiet. There seems to be more than a li...

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My mate Roger wants a James Bond Union Jack Bulldog for Christmas. If you haven’t seen Skyfall yet, it’s the one that M has on her desk and which survives the explosion which destroys her office. Perhaps to Roger (and certainly the film’s producers) is symbolises the resilience of the British nation...

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Become a gardener and if you manage to get your dahlias to bloom in the kind of weather we've been having this year, then have a stab at selling them. You might remember that David Cameron asked the office of national statistics to carry out a ‘happiness’ survey last year to determine the quality of...

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The youngest Rathbonette’s wedding went well. There were no glitches ( well, only a little one when Heston dropped the rings). No-one was naughty (not even the kids who disappeared under the top table with a big plate of sausage rolls from the buffet). No-one got embarrassingly drunk. And she wasn’t...

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The youngest Rathbonette has chosen to have tomorrow’s wedding in a country retreat miles from anywhere. Which is fine, it’s a nice venue and I’m sure everything will go off well. But because it is in the countryside, up miles of winding country lanes, I thought I’d better let the guests have detail...

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Epykat wrote: It would actually be my preferred option.

I'm just waiting for The Commander to give it the thumbs up.

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I really enjoyed the wonderfully named Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright talking about Breakfasts through the ages on BBC4 last night. You might remember her when she ran The Cooks Bookshop in the West Bow. It was a tiny place which w...

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As Margo Channing said in All About Eve: Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. I’m writing this while watching the television news about Obama’s victory in the American elections. While the focus seems to be on the fact the he is the first president re-elected with fewer electoral v...

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I had a cold last week which has left me with a tickly cough that comes and goes, but never quite disappears, so I go into the chemist for cough lozenges and ended up with Covonia double impact berry blast. They taste quite nice but don’t appear to be doing much for the cough. So I thought I’d see w...

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Isn’t it interesting how corruption becomes pervasive and we have to keep using the word allegedly in order not to be caught up in it? Allegedly Denis MacShane broke the law in his abuse of parliamentary expenses. The investigating committee found Mr MacShane had submitted 19 false invoices "intende...

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As someone who has considerable experience of changing flat tyres due to the overzealous DIY activities of a neighbour who likes to make things on his drive and scatter stray nails and screws over the road, I view with considerable concern the current trend for car manufacturers not to provide a spa...

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Anyway, as I was saying before I was distracted, just off the Likoni ferry turn sharp right and about 100 metres along the road there is a shack which backs on to the sea and sells truly great fish and chips. Most of the really good food I’ve had in Kenya has been in roadside shacks. These are where...

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