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Pigeon: Impossible
A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2010
The February edition of PCS Defender publishes a letter about the media distortion regarding MoD pay, pensions, bonuses and civil servants in general. The letter was written to Conservative defence spokesperson Liam Fox MP by a PCS member. The letter sums up how a great many civil servants feel about the media frenzy that is [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2010
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Saturday Listening
Some of the remarks in the comments section in relation to the Albion Alliance over at Nourishing Obscurity reminded me of this song. I used it to accompany one of my early (PCS) campaign videos way back in 2005. We knew what was right and campaigned to get the truth across against all [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Average
A bee and a flower of average size.
Trying to find a photo that might fit this theme left me pondering on the meaning of average; size, height, intelligence, beauty etc etc.
It left me with the thought that average is often used in the context that anything above is exceptional and anything below is sub standard. [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2010
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100 Photos 1 :: Fresh Snowfall
Whilst browsing around various blogs I came across the 100 photos project. It reminded me that for some time I have been meaning to do my own personal list of ‘100 reasons to be glad’ which was inspired by a book by Isabel Losada. I thought it would be a fun challenge to tie the [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2010
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Late Night Listening – Ship of Fools
I can’t believe what is happening to me
My head is spinning
The flowers and the trees are encapsulating me
And I go spinning
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn’t know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn’t know that, really [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2010
