Daniel Etherington

Well, humanity’s is proving its despicableness (and yes, that is a word, despite how ugly it is and how much my spellcheck doesn’t like it) again. In this case, it’s the Chinese specifically. China really does seem to be putting a lot of effort into making the sort of environmental rape and pillage mistakes other [...]

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Local weather

max: 21°C
min: 12°C
That’s what the Beeb says. It’s not true. Well, the latter temperature probably is, but not that pesky symbol. Where has the sun gone? Or more importanly, where has the summer gone?
Will whoever stole the British summer please return it?
Seriously, we had too much sun last year, with all those [...]

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There really are just too many cars in England, particularly in the south and southeast.

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Well, Gordon Brown has finally taken over from the increasingly deranged Tony Blair, who will presumably now be dedicating this time to achieving a sainthood or somesuch (he’s already reportedly sequeing from self-righteous Catholic church-attendee to actual fully signed up member of the Catholic church. There’s talk of him becoming some sort of peace envoy [...]

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It’s rainy. It’s rainy a lot. I realise we had two years of less than average rainfall over 2005 and 2006, which left us with heavily depleted reservoirs and hosepipe bans, but this is getting silly. It’s supposed to be the summer. I thought, coming back from our travels, at least it wouldn’t be too [...]

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This blog was started with the sole aim of covering our round-the-world trip, which we embarked on last November. Now we’re home, that purpose is obviously going to shift. Hence, I’ve bunged all the entries into a World tour category, freeing up this main thread area for whatever blather comes to mind.
Seeing as I’m rather [...]

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Despite my contempt for the Coca-Cola brand, I was quite tickled by their new Grand Theft Auto spoof advert, which we saw in the cinema today.
Basically, it inverts the behaviour GTA is critised for. A Tommy Vercetti style character is seen riding around a GTA-esque urban environment. He buys a Coke, he pulls a guy [...]

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Okay, this is my new blog.
I’ve only ever tried blogging once before, and that was thwarted by me being unable to decide on: a name for the blog, a focus for the subject matter, a tone for the text, a design. Hell, everything really.
I’m going to procrastinate about the design theme here too, doubtless, but [...]

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