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Happy 89th Birthday to Jim Noble
Happy 89th Birthday to Jim Noble
DaithaiC
: "Happy 89th Birthday (5th March) to the actor James Noble who is best known for his portrayal of the slightly daffy Governor Eugene Gatling on the 1980s sitcom Benson. He is the father of a good buddy who is a remarkable person in her own right. However Jim is in a class of his own and as the video shows even at his advanced years is not craving respectability nor has he lost his subversive sense of humour."
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 06/03/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Visit Ireland the home of cricket?
Visit Ireland the home of cricket?
DaithaiC
: "It seems that Michael O'Leary, the CEO of Ireland's budget airline, Ryanair, couldn't resist buying full page advertisements in the British newspapers today following Ireland's amazing victory over the English team in the Cricket World Cup in Bangalore. Ryanair does all its advertising in house and in its time has probably offended everybody with its “no hold bars” approach but this time even I had to chuckle at this add celebrating the amazing win by an amateur Irish team over England on the 2nd March."
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 05/03/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Suze Rotolo
Suze Rotolo
DaithaiC
: "I was saddened to hear of the premature death from Lung Cancer at the age of 67 of Suze Rotolo (1943-2011) in NYC. The principled daughter of two American Communists she inspired Bob Dylan’s radicalism and worked for Civil Rights during the period they were together. She appeared with him on the cover of his breakthrough album “Freewheelin' Bob Dylan” walking down a snowy Greenwich village street and he wrote "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time." about her. "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 03/03/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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A terrible default is born
A terrible default is born
DaithaiC
: "Congratulations to Ireland on electing a new puppet Government. The election will not reduce the interest rate on its €80bn bailout by a quarter of a percentage point; it will not diminish the burden of the deficit by so much as an old Irish Punt (the pre-euro currency which rhymed with Bank Manager). It will hang around the necks of the Irish for decades, and rest upon the shoulders of their children and their children’s children. If Gaddafi Adams is the answer then what is the question? The HUGE mistake was to guarantee not just deposits but ALL the liabilities of Irish Banks. The Hedge Fund Bondholders have been in LMAO mode ever since. "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 01/03/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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St. Pancras Reborn Part II
St. Pancras Reborn Part II
DaithaiC
: "After a long dormant spell, George Gilbert Scott's magnificent Midland Grand Hotel is about to be re-opened - the jewel in the crown of the St Pancras railway redevelopment which has already seen the relocation of the Eurostar terminal. A triumph of neo-Gothic splendour, the red brick Grade I listed hotel has been painstakingly restored by architect Geoff Mann who worked with English Heritage to preserve as many of the original features as possible. Many of these date back to 1876 when the hotel first opened - making it the last and most extravagant of the great Victorian railway hotels. "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 28/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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As vague as a Hague
As vague as a Hague
DaithaiC
: "Poor William Hague was never going to have it easy. Looking like a Klingon and sounding like a Dalek from Yorkshire was never a happy combination. Then there were the optics gone wrong; looking so trendy not with a baseball cap at the Notting Hill carnival he looked just like the hoodie PR Dave urged us to hug and then there were the photos of him looking totally heterosexual with his “assistant” Chris Meyers. But now the disembowelling of Britain’s military, which I wrote about in the last post comes home to roost, as more than 5,000 Britons are trapped in the chaos as Libya turns against the Mad Dictator, Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi and his son Saif who only mere months ago was shooting (birdies!) at Waddesdon with the Rothschild’s and Peter “some of my best friends are millionaires” Mandelson."
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 24/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Big Society, Small Military?
Big Society, Small Military?
DaithaiC
: "Being republican with both a big and a small R the Celtic Sage is hardly an admirer of British militarism or imperialism. How could I be given their history in Ireland and my belief that the people are sovereign – I believe in being a citizen, not a subject? There is still too much unfinished business out there from the days of Empire which indicates that “Perfidious” and “Albion” are still two words which go together. Witness the shameful dispossession of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, the abandonment of their allies against the Japanese the brave Karen people of Burma, their ignoring of the oppression of the Tamils in Sri Lanka since independence and the shabby racist treatment of ex Ghurkha soldiers and their families. "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 18/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane’s Museum
DaithaiC
: "Sir John Soane’s name doesn’t trip off the architectural tongue today but in his day he was Britain’s most influential and prolific architect – a classicist some of whose work is startlingly modern. For instance every major gallery built today is “top lit” to give an even quality of light on the paintings whilst protecting them from direct sunlight. Soane came up with this solution first for the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the architectural consensus is it has never been bettered. He designed the imposing edifice of the Bank of England in the City of London whose solidity was to speak to us of the solidity of the British currency at the height of Empire. Why he even inspired the Red Telephone box! So much of what he designed has been either demolished; altered or not built in the first place that is importance could be overlooked if it was not for London’s most amazing Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields which he bequeathed to the nation in 1837. "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 16/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Psst! – Wanna buy a Tube station?
Psst! – Wanna buy a Tube station?
DaithaiC
: "Wanna buy a Tube station? Just be careful who you sit next to on the Tube because there are a lot of Tube “Anoraks” out there whose dream of earthly paradise is to own a Tube station. Sad Boys – yes it is a male thing! "
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 13/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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Clowns of Old London Town
Clowns of Old London Town
DaithaiC
: "After the Banking Crisis many would say the City of London is full of Clowns, without realising it is the literal truth. London has many traditions which are preserved in East London which regards itself as the home of real Londoners, the Cockneys, who are traditionally regarded as those born within the sound of the Bow Bells, the bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, an historic church off Cheapside in the City of London. However the label Cockney was original a countryman’s derogatory term for the city dwellers, literally meaning a “Cocks egg”, or an effeminate city dweller. Two of the great folk traditions of the City are the Pearly Kings and Queens who were elected for each Borough as part of a tradition of mutual assistance by the Costermongers or street produce sellers and who support many causes such as erecting a memorial to the victims of The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster."
| daithaic.blogspot.com | | the 07/02/2011 | | Add or View Comment |
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