Haven’t yet seen the film. If it’s any good, which I have a feeling it will be, I’ll consider buying it.
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Out With The Old
It’s taken a long time, but I’ve finally found the alternative Web-browser to use. Couldn’t appreciate Opera, though it’s doubtless an excellent browser. Decided to go for Firefox instead. Hoorah.
Hunting Ban
About a week ago, The Government passed a bill to ban fox-hunting, deer-hunting and coursing in England and Wales, to start from February 2005. Of course, it needed the Parliament Act to pass it (a seldom used act that allows Parliament to overturn the decision of the House of Lords, who historically how opposed any anti-hunting bills. Ahhh, democracy, eh.)
It just remains to be seen what the pro-hunting lobby can do to overturn the law. They are expected to take it to the European Courts of Human Rights. Interesting they choose Human Rights, when one of their biggest arguments is that foxes need controlling. They’ll doubtless go for the “hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost” line.
Still, for the moment I revel in the victory.
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Scrabble Part 2
Woo-hoo! Scrabble last night came to a record-breaking 760.
This with the help of 3 seven-letter outings : cotting, adulates and surgers.
Scrabble Part 1
Played last night and, despite a terrible draw of letters for us both, managed to get a respectable 600 something.
New word : rakee
As Jo is well aware, this is a brandy of Turkey and the Balkans, distilled from grapes or plums and flavored with anise. Also spelt raki.
Found out that avgas is also in the dictionary. It means aviation gas. How I love similarities, sometimes.