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Whoop whoop! Another excellent night at Lisi, loads of people in what seemed like two shifts with an emptier bit around 10.30ish.
Russian Circles
The best new track tonight was Russian Circles’ ‘Harper Lewis.’ I don’t normally go for lengthy, instrumental rock but, blimey, is their new album good. ‘Harper Lewis’ moves from dreamy, swooshy bits [...]
There is convincing evidence that 60 children and 30 adults were killed in a US air strike in western Afghanistan last Friday, the United Nations says.
The US originally said its planes had killed 30 militants in the attack in the province of Herat.
“Investigations by Unama found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses, and [...]
President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Mr Medvedev told the BBC Russia had tried to preserve Georgian unity for 17 years, but that the situation had changed after this month’s violence.
He said Moscow now felt obliged to recognise South Ossetia and [...]
This wonderful flower is called a chocolate cosmos! And it does smell of choc! Click the pic for a few more snaps.
The beans are still very small but you might be able to spot them if you click the pic!
Click the pic to see more fuzzy bees nectaring.
Binyam Mohammed
A British woman held in China for three days without charge after a Free Tibet demonstration is to be released and deported, Downing Street has said.
Mandy McKeown, 41, from Bristol, had been expected to be detained for 10 days following the protest in Beijing.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised her case when he met [...]
Afghanistan’s president has criticised US forces for “unilateral operations” in the west which, the government says, killed at least 70 civilians.
Tribal elders said a bomb had been dropped on a large group of mourners at a wake in Herat on Friday.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said initial findings were that 78 civilians had been [...]
WH Smiths, Derby…
Assistant: “Can I help you, sir?”
Customer: “Oh yes. I’m looking for a book”
A: “Well, we have plenty of those! Hah!”
C: “Hah.”
(awkward silence)
A: “Yes…?”
C: “Yes.”
(more awkward silence)
A: “Errr… what kind of book are you after, sir?”
C: “Oooh…umm… biographies?”
A: “Ahhh, inspiring life stories! We’ve got lots of them! How about Gandhi? Or Einstein?”
C: “Ummm… no.”
A: [...]