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• Chatham House - The Chatham House Rule
  “When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed”.
  (tags: Chatham House rule)

• LOW MORALE ::: a series of flash animations portraying one man’s struggle to cope with working life. Animation, Low, Morale, Flash, LowMorale, cartoons, work, meh, monkeehub, media, monkeehub media, monkees, monkey, employment, death, escape, life, animat
  Genius. Thanks to John Howard for the link.
  (tags: office work humour humor cartoons funny)

I’ve been tagged by Nigel Paine and Martin Belam - so here goes…

Five things you might not know about me:

1. I went to nine nurseries/schools including O Pequeno Principe (The Little Prince) nursery in Brazil and the Junior English School in Rome, Italy.
2. At Southampton University I was the long-haired lead singer in a band called SINS (which stood for Suck It ’N See!). Our biggest gig was in front of 1500 people celebrating Chamberlain Hall’s 10th “Bar Birthday”
3. Both my ears are pierced.
4. In 1992 I was Office Angel of the Month while temping at South London Dial-a-ride. The office postcode was SW19 8UG - I told them the mnemonic was “Swig bug” and that’s how they remembered their postcode from then on. I don’t think it’s connected to the Angel award.
5. I broke my nose doing the high jump. I was 15 years old and representing my school at an athletics meeting. I cleared the bar (1.58m) but had to pull out. My record was 1.78m which was also the school record for a short time. I also did 110 metre hurdles, javelin, 800 metres and 1500 metres.

Why do we run in an anticlockwise direction on a running track?

Has it always been anticlockwise?

Is it clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? [No, actually scrap that]

Does it mean top athletes’ descendants will have shorter left legs than right? [Actually scrap that one too]

Just realised this blog is two years old today.

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• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Duck survives two days in fridge
  Sorry. Duck’s off.

  “A duck in the US state of Florida has survived gunshot wounds and a two-day stint in a refrigerator.

  A hunter shot the duck, wounding it in the wing and leg. Believing the bird was dead, he left it in his fridge at his home in Ta

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• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US man survives 17-storey tumble
  I think this man must be related to the duck who was shot and then survived two days in the fridge.

  And Richard “Hamster” Hammond.

  Oh, and haven’t they heard of reinforced glass in Minneapolis?

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  A Dulwich blog by a posh mum
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• The official website of Villars-Gryon - Home
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• WCTT Home
  They’re doing Time Trials on Wimbledon Common every Saturday morning following successful events in Bushey Park.
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  List of useful sites under the Web 2.0 banner - basically web sites that it easier to do and share stuff.
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• Upper Rectory Farm Cottages
  Having just returned from 5 nights stay I can thoroughly recommend it, especially for large groups (38 in our case!). The cottages are interlinked so can be opened up in to one huge pad with several kitchens, living rooms etc.
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