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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Return to France
[Of related interest to this item is an earlier posting, Visitors from France.] I just got e-word from my friend Michelle that she and Yves finally made it back to their home near Bordeaux in France. She said that though … Continue reading
Posted in MOI
Tagged ’Musée d’Orsay’, ’Napa Valley’, ’old friend’, ’San Francisco’, Bordeaux, France, viticulture, wines
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RWANDA # 366 1970
CAPITAL Kigali MAP of RWANDA LANGUAGES English French Kinyarwanda Introduction to My Philately
African Beginnings
On a soft August evening in 1935 two lovers moved indolently arm-in-arm along the thronged Calle Alameda in Málaga. As was the Spanish custom, they had finished a light meal of ten-o’clock tapas and local wine in a small restaurant … Continue reading
Posted in MOI
Tagged 'African beginnings', 'formative influences', 'German invasion of Norway', birth, deracination, fascism, Franco, grandparents, Norway, Sweden, WWII
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RWANDA # 361 1970
CAPITAL Kigali MAP of RWANDA LANGUAGES English French Kinyarwanda
Verbal proscription
WARNING WARNING WARNING What follows contains a small amount of sexually explicit language that may not be suited for all tastes. If you are offended by such themes and language, or if you are under eighteen, or if this … Continue reading
Scares
Remember the ceaseless barrage of scares about anthrax a few years back? Anthrax is of course a very dangerous organism, and the potential threat is not something to be lightly shrugged off. But it seems to me that there was … Continue reading
Posted in GALLIMAUFRY
Tagged 'accident reporting', 'asymmetries in the news', accidents, scares, sensationalism
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CARTOON – Experts and Pests
While the experts are busy in their labs and at their conferences in Hawaii trying hard to mathematicize a way to destroy crop-chomping and flower-dining garden pests … the pests themselves are happily busy like these guys below!
Posted in ART
Tagged 'garden pests', ‘crop destruction’, ’centipede omnivores’, cartoon, centipedes, pests
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Civility
Manners seem to be getting worse. As just one example of this unhappy state of affairs one might reference the past week’s local papers that have been filled with accounts of rowdy passengers waiting at the downtown bus stop and … Continue reading
Posted in GALLIMAUFRY
Tagged ’interior controls’, ’parental responsibility’, civility, comity, politeness, rudeness, self-indulgence
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RWANDA # 365 [1970]
CAPITAL Kigali MAP of RWANDA LANGUAGES English French Kinyarwanda
