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Archive for November, 2008

The above photograph was one of a number to feature in a piece in the Daily Mail, in which the reporter posed this question: Aren’t you too old to STILL be stripping off in public, Katie Price? 
Katy Price is 30. She was modelling her new lingerie range.
So, is this (unnamed) reporter suggesting that women over [...]

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Save Me from Art Nouveau!

Just a random thought, but I think I’m beginning to like the Art Nouveau style. Stop yawning, I know you don’t care. And I know there’s a recession on, and wars and natural catastrophes but sometimes I Iike to give my little mind a break from all that and today I’m thinking about art. Art [...]

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Abandoned and Worried

 
Thanks to my fascination with abandoned places/things I’ve just given myself something else to worry about. I was checking out the ‘abandonments’ page on Web Urbanist  (great site) when I came across a piece about the abandoned town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Way back in the 1960’s an underground fire somehow started and has been burning [...]

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Freaking Laugh!

Life, eh? You’ve got to laugh.. No, seriously, you’ve GOT TO LAUGH. People who laugh a lot are happier, healthier, better-looking and skinnier than sour-faced people. A good deal of  serious research went into reaching that conclusion (I looked around the room). I might be wrong about the skinnier part, though.. Yes, strike out the skinny. Skinny people [...]

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Now that everyone has pretty much stopped denying that we’ve in a recession, I suppose we should brace ourselves for the deluge of books on how-to-survive-on-bugger-all . Still, India Knight’s Thrift Book  — extract in the Times – looks as if it might be worth a read. She reminded me about the aspirin face pack [...]

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I love old advertising posters — the images, the typefaces. I really think I could become a bit of a… collector — me, a minimalist! This one I like  — but don’t you think that the image of the ice cream cone is a bit disappointing and unappealing? Does it really make you think you’d just have to [...]

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