tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post7955647402740572214..comments2023-10-04T15:13:32.116+01:00Comments on Writing in a Twist: The Political is Personal?Tales from the Birch Wood.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15427603252937311851noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-85534771975641450652011-05-23T10:38:45.893+01:002011-05-23T10:38:45.893+01:00We haven't had TV for several years, now. In ...We haven't had TV for several years, now. In our last flat, we paid for a TV license and found out that our landlord was also paying for a TV license. The TV license people refused to reimburse us without a whole bunch of paperwork, despite the fact that they could clearly see that there were two licenses for the same flat. So, we vowed never to go there again.David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-53882389355849813492011-05-23T10:30:16.502+01:002011-05-23T10:30:16.502+01:00Just in passing, have you found any good TV progra...Just in passing, have you found any good TV programmes?<br /><br />I'm considering that the next cutback could be getting rid of cable, television is so boring.<br /><br />Even BBC 4 has worthy documentaries about bizarre writers and lacks any sense of joy.Photographe à Dublinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13555993860377132435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-90028968069716828752011-05-20T11:42:18.695+01:002011-05-20T11:42:18.695+01:00Well as everyone knows..
when sorrows come, they ...Well as everyone knows..<br /><br />when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in batallions...Tales from the Birch Wood.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15427603252937311851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-29058625117020481382011-05-20T11:28:11.447+01:002011-05-20T11:28:11.447+01:00I hadn't even heard that Obama was going to be...I hadn't even heard that Obama was going to be around! How awful for you!David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-65377081952033830332011-05-19T10:11:23.866+01:002011-05-19T10:11:23.866+01:00Just to say that the real fun will start next week...Just to say that the real fun will start next week when Obama turns up.<br /><br />I'm wondering if I should not just stay home but dig a bunker in the back garden.<br /><br />There will be snipers everywhere.Photographe à Dublinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13555993860377132435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-81090379789652683282011-05-18T15:08:06.508+01:002011-05-18T15:08:06.508+01:00I'm afraid I don't have a reverential temp...I'm afraid I don't have a reverential temperament and find large public gestures, regardless of where they are performed, a bit boring.<br /><br />However, I am not typical in this and there are many people who have worked for years to have some normal official contact between "Ireland" and "England" and if this is what must happen in order to stop people hurting one another, I'm not going to criticise too much.<br /><br />There used be hilarious stories about Gandhi wandering round and insisting on travel third class after he had become famous. It caused far more concern and financial expenditure than if he had swallowed his pride and deigned to get in a first class train carriage.<br /><br />I can imagine how anybody not reared in Ireland must be puzzled at "our sad history". Frankly, the English never did anything to me and one branch of my family was part of the colonizing forces that came in with the Normans. It may be a subconscious race memory, but I'm terrified of "freedom" fighters.Tales from the Birch Wood.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15427603252937311851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072986020953209374.post-13042853907476732962011-05-18T13:03:41.502+01:002011-05-18T13:03:41.502+01:00We've been heartily sick of the coverage, as w...We've been heartily sick of the coverage, as we're simply not at all interested except in the abstract - obviously, it means very little to us.David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.com