November 2009
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Ye What?: Back on Blogger! →
I’ve done it!
Please update your bookmarks & feed readers. Or, delete and forget :-) See ya on the other side.
October 2009
83 posts
Spells to send by TXT this Halloween
BI T Sprts of Bog & Mrsh MA U GAn A FIn Mstash
By the spirits of bog and marsh, may you gain a fine moustache
DiBL DaBL DoBl Mak Ya Bum Nt WoBL
Dibble Dabble Dobble make your bum not wobble
Mi Cldrn Hlds A POshn Strng 4U IL Wer MI LkE Thng
My cauldron holds a potion strong for you I’ll wear my lucky thong!
W/ Ths SpeL T Ansas CIEr Cum & join Me 4 A BEr
With this spell the...
The moderator has moderated. →
It looks like Stephen went through the same suffering and pain that I did waiting on the moderator, though he kept quiet. How could anyone keep quiet going through that experience.
Next time I think my comment might read…
An elderly woman goes to the doctor for a checkup. She says, “Doctor, I haven’t had sex for years now, and I was wondering how I can increase my...
Vampire Equinox - by Philip Henry [Writer of Irish... →
Philip Henry to promote the release of his novel, Vampire Equinox will be signing his book on Halloween night (Sat 31st) in Waterstone’s, Coleraine, from 6-8pm before the annual fireworks display.
Strange happenings in the blogosphere around...
It’s that time of year again,with the most recent applicant applying to join Northern Irish bloggers looking like his/her blog doesn’t exist. If it did exist the blog would be called The Failings of the Progressive Unionist Party and would be about [as the applicant has written]…
The PUP would seem to have so many things in it favour. Socialist in an urban area, pro-union (for a...
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Now it’s a fortnight The moderator is probably busy trying to organise Piss ups in breweries and dosen’t have time to moderate.When these Piss Ups are organised they’re advertised free through twitter, through tweeters doing a FREE RT service.Tweeters should charge to RT :-)
Ye What?: Back on Blogger →
- you’ve been warned :-)
Tweeters, tweeters everywhere, but they lack... →
This article I find very confusing. Firstly I haven’t clue who wrote it, as they don’t show online who’s to blame for confusing me today.I’d have expected that the question posed in the title Tweeters, tweeters everywhere, but they lack direction might have been answered in the rest of the text.Instead we have been reccomnded websites to visit. I’m not sure how these...
Ulla’s Nib ‘Northern Ireland’s own magazine of new...
I was saddened to read in the the newsletter from CWN…
Ulla’s Nib ‘Northern Ireland’s own magazine of new writing’
View past issues at: http://www.creativewritersnetwork.org/Ulla%27s%20Nib.html
Unfortunately due to the cuts in funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Ulla’s Nib will no longer be published. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events but in the current...
N.I.'s answer to Eric & Ernie [#tweetlifeni]
propertypal Wow! 98% of all UK singles now bought are downloaded.
jasebell:@propertypal: Good to see that dating websites are still working! ;)
A load of...
I’ve got a problem. Well, actually, more than one problem. You’ll be glad to hear I’m only going to share one of my problems with you.It’s not really a suitable problem or that serious a problem that I could ring up the Samaritans and ask their advice.It’s not really a problem to share with a religious person, they just wouldn’t understand.
OK, so do you want...
Nick Griffin to appear on X Factor
OK the title is misleading, but you never know. The audience in the BBC comedy show ‘Question Time’ last night reminded me of the wannabe’s that appear on X Factor. I’m wondering is Simon Cowell annoyed that so many people were watching Question Time last night, the same audience that watch X Factor. The same people that put any act that sings on X Factor to number 1 in the...
Nick Griffin (BNPChairman) on Twitter →
- 586 followers and all he’s ever tweeted was…
Welcome to the Chairman’s Tweets.2:21 PM May 11th from web
Turn Back Time
A day-long celebration of poetry, song, story & Denvir’s Hotel on 25th October 2009 Write! Down & Denvir’s Hotel, one of Co Down’s most historic locations, invite you to a unique event. Denvir’s – a coaching inn from early 1800s; associated with the United Irishmen; formerly a debtors’ sanctuary – is a place where social activities of all kinds, past and...
Will anyone email offdlk@gmail.com ? →
- looks like offdlk@gmail.com is at again.
WRITE MORE, READ MORE
In a series of four Thursday evening workshops at the Lock-Keeper’s Inn Ian McDonald, Annie McCartney, Stuart Neville, Gerard Brennan and T.A Moore will read extracts from their novels and answer questions about their experience of a writer’s life.
After the talk there will be a ‘write-in’ for the nanowrimo’ers, but you don’t have to be a writer to attend the event. After all, writers are nothing...
Insight through identity exploration.
The tagline on the website of Sycadex reads…
Insight through identity exploration.
UTV reports…
HR firm fined for race discrimination
A Dunmurry company has been ordered to pay over £36,000 to a Malaysian former employee after being found guilty of race discrimination.
Market analyst Terence Lesslar, 49, took HR solutions company Sycadex Ltd to an industrial tribunal alleging...
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A week ago I left a comment on a blog…
#2 by d@\/e on October 14th, 2009
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Yeah I’m up for a BBQ in the car park + I’ll probably bring my personal bodyguard too.
I wonder will the moderator let it be posted?
Open, what?
“One sure way never to get criticisd - never do anything!”
– ClaireBoyles
Beware the Dong Chim! →
I learn something new every day.
Recent tweets...
For those of you who don’t follow me on twitter, here’s a few recent tweets that might interest you.
@beautyinthebush [Miss NI Cherie Gardiner] blogging on the Rushmere Uganda Schools project 2010 http://www.beautyinthebush.com
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The Adventures of the Lone Widget.
Once upon a time a solitary widget sat on on a virtual bar stool on the sidebar of a blog called S.E.V.E.N. It was late in the evening when she thought I’m gonna introduce myself to everyone here.
“Hey Partners” she shouted “My name’s Emma 4PCRF”
“You’re what?” the RSS Feed link replied.
“I’m Emma 4PCRF”
“Your a bit...
Letting the creative juice flow...
…into a puddle of words.
After reading The Chaser - By John Collier and this quote by Orison Swett Marden There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow”
these words appeared…
This will work. I know it will. I’ve read all the reports on the website, the testimonials they’re called. Not one person has...
£450,000.00 is that all?
from my SPAM box…
Congratulation
Microsoft Award
aschandel@bsnl.co.in
19 October 2009
Reply-To: mr.thomashooper@gala.net
£450,000.00 has been award to you in the Microsoft Online,send us your Names/Tel/Country
The Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition. ... →
Rules of entry[doc]
Open Poetry Competition [Norwich Writers' Circle] →
Adjudicator: HILARY MELLON Closing date: 16th February, 2010
Concerns at teen swine flu death →
- sad to read this about another pupil who attends a ‘special school’.
Wick Poetry Center →
- mildly amusing name, to someone from Northern Ireland, for a poetry centre
Reasons found @
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wick
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If...”
– Winston Churchill
I'm now following @litdrift on Twitter →
- Blog, resource, and community dedicated to the art & craft of fiction in the 21st century. Articles, daily creative prompts,daily short stories, and a weekly free book giveaway. http://litdrift.com
Declaration of Interest- Conflict at the Arts... →
UPDATE
The visitor I referred to earlier spent 4 hours 54 mins 47 secs this evening reading this blog.That’s probably more time than I’ve spent writing blog posts here in the last year. It shows, doesn’t it :-)
Ballycastle Writers Group - ‘In Sight of...
@ Limepark
6th-8th NOVEMBER 2009
Friday 6th November
7.30pm Arrival of residents on the weekend and allocation of accommodation.
8.30pm Stories music and craic round the fire. Hot punch (alcoholic & non alcoholic) served. Also ‘Bring your own bottle’.
Saturday 7th November
10.30am…………………….. Registration & Tea/ Coffee Scones.
11.30 am...
Visitors!! [Alternate title - Therapists still...
Most visitors spend less than a minute visiting this blog but today I had a visitor who stayed for 2 hours 39 mins 16 secs. This is what they did…
@ 16:46:27 they searched on Google for ”jane ross writing group and found
todd7.tumblr.com/post/169014482/as-an-ex-chairman-of-the-jane-ross-writing-group
@ 18:16:38 they left that page and went to
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Emma McCann on BBC Radio Ulster →
- Listen out for this!
Teaching BBC Radio Ulster presenters to speak...
I couldn’t resist it, earlier Hugo was on and for his daily quiz he asked…
What is of no use to a cyar, yet the cyar can’t go without it?
I rang up his show using my pseudonym, Sean from Bellaghy, and asked ” Could you ask Hugo to explain what a cyar is? I’ve heard of car and automobile but have never heard of a cyar.”
Suddenly his pronunciation of that...