Monthly Archives: Dec 2013

My Blogs 2013, a review

Posted on Dec 31, 2013 by cliverh

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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2013 an’ a’ that.

Posted on Dec 25, 2013 by cliverh

In the normal course of events a summary of the year is something I would avoid like the plague, but this has been a very eventful year so discretion overcame valour, and I thought what the hell; and at least … Continue reading →

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And the moon turns the tide gently.

Posted on Dec 19, 2013 by cliverh

Well, so no surprises then. The Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton said that although we will have top class equipment we might not have enough personnel to operate it. So the ‘perfect’ politicians who made the … Continue reading →

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NHS, stop knocking it….

Posted on Dec 12, 2013 by cliverh

The NHS in general and its performance in GP surgeries and hospitals in particular has come in for much criticism lately, some justified, some patently not. I use the system, and have done quite intensively for at least 15 years. … Continue reading →

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This Sporting Life

Posted on Dec 11, 2013 by cliverh

Football and Cricket. This countries national sports, both basically invented by us. As my reader will know, I’m not a football fan, for all the usual reasons: overpaid, over here, cheating, pansy footballers, but cricket is definitely our national sport. … Continue reading →

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So this is Christmas…..

Posted on Dec 10, 2013 by cliverh

…and what have you done? It’s that time of year again, but then it has been since September, and as last year I can have a rail about the season. The usual over hyped aspects of this annual beanfeast are … Continue reading →

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Justice?

Posted on Dec 9, 2013 by cliverh

So Lee Rigby’s alleged murderer Michael Adebolajo said in court “he was “almost certain” he would be shot and killed by the firearms officers who arrived at the scene of the attack in Woolwich”.  So was he thinking about his … Continue reading →

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…an’ annuver fing.

Posted on Dec 4, 2013 by cliverh

Well a bit of response to my piece ‘Edukachun’ which always pleases me. I like to have a ‘damned good argument’ so long as its the full half hour not the five minutes (Pythonesque quote). Someone actually commented to me … Continue reading →

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Edukachun

Posted on Dec 3, 2013 by cliverh

Mr Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education stood up in Parliament today and told us what had been reported elsewhere: that our education standards are basically slipping. The performance of pupils in the UK has fallen to 26th … Continue reading →

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