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Friday Free For All

Statements that would not be heard in Great Britain:

Construction work for mudroom/verandah is on slow-down for a couple of weeks. Carpenter has gone to hunt bear.

Source:Jen on Twitter. Blog Link: Wildapricot.

For this week’s Friday Free For All question, we are asking if you have managed to make the news in your town or community, and what you think about it.
So:
Have you made the local press? Why and what happened? Do you have any tips?
(Note: making it into the local press in such a manner that [...]

Following on from Mike’ Rouse’s question about catching up with blogs last week, today we’re asking about the best use of political video you have seen in the last year.
In the last year, there have been protest videos, the last few months of 18DS, some interesting locally-made political videos, and the new Politalks (nsfw) video-podcast.
We’d [...]

As it’s Friday Free for All here on the ever-growing Wardman Wire I thought I would ask a question instead of an opinion, based on something that somebody asked me in a pub recently:
“I was just starting to get into these blogs, but then I went away for two weeks and I haven’t been able [...]

I have been re-reading a book by Alistair Cooke: Memories of the Great and the Good (aff), a set of essays about figures in US life and culture from the 1930s to the 1990s.

George Abbott was a Broadway Theatre Producer, was involved in his first broadway production in 1926, and his last in 1989.

A refreshing admission by Simon Dickson:
OK, I’m an idiot. The lengthy and fair-minded piece I wrote this morning about a speech by Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne at the RSA was a year late.
Osborne made some interesting points about the need ‘to recast the political settlement for the digital age.’ And now today, there’s an [...]