This blog relates our experience of living with a small child, our daughter, with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia - we hope it will provide comfort and information to others in similar situations to our own as well as being both therapeutic for ourselves and a record of what will be surely a...
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Stuff the Jubilee
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Queen Elizabeth II "ascended" to the the throne on 6 February 1952 and is thus celebrating her Diamond Jubilee.
I remember her Silver Jubilee back in 1977 when I ...
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The Cost of Knowledge
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Boingboing gave us an incredible collection of posts last week and there follows some links to these ...
Our first is to The Cost of Knowledge - a website protesting agai ...
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Llareggub
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
After Morais' lesson in Anglo-Saxon last week, I gave him a lesson in Welsh inspired by Dylan Thomas ' Under Milkwood (which I saw narrated in Bangor when I was a teenager ...
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Aphorisms XV!
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
"Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies ...
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Travel size paper city Paris
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
This miniture paper cut-out model of Paris, featuring the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, a boulangerie and patisserie as well as people and cars ... it only ...
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A new species
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
We believed that our common octopus here probably belonged to the genus Octopus. However, the Directorate of Livestock, responsible for issuing phyto-sanitary certific ...
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Algebra
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
My algebra is not what it was in my school days ... but this is very funny!
From the Futility Closet :
"Faced with the simultaneous equations
and
a lazy stu ...
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Psychogeography
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
I'm not a great fan of the term "psychogeography" but it has a pedigree and there seems to be a lack of a suitable alternative to describe human effects on the environment.
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Gertrude Stein
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
From the Futility Closet ...
"When Bennett Cerf published Gertrude Stein’s Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind in 1936, h ...
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Public Service Announcement
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
"Outdoor cats risk injury, disease, or getting hit by cars and millions of small birds and and other animals are killed each year by outdoor cats.
Your outdoor cat can fi ...
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Reply from MAFIAA Fire
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Hey Angus,
Thanks for contacting MAFIAAFire!
Sure, we are most happy to answer questions about the addons, and tech people can check them out for themselves as well as i ...
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Aphorisms
by
Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
The Futility Closet is a wonderful source of aphorisms of which my regular readers know I am particularly fond. Two more below ...
“Sleep is death enjoyed.” — Friedrich H ...
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Free Study
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Angus
Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer
Thanks to Futility Closet ...
“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” — Samuel Johnson
“Knowledge whi ...
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