Swine Flu, Schools and the Government

I love pigs, I try not to eat too much pork due to my fondness of them. Smarter than dogs you know? But I’ve known some dumb dogs in my time.
So Swine Flu still exists and it is literally snorting its way through Honkers schools.  I think there are one or two schools closed at [...]

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Koppu Hits

Not the most illustrative of videos on the strength of Koppu but you get the point.
Koppu kept up it’s fight and The Observatory kept the Signal 8 so that we didn’t get to go to work today.
It was the first typhoon that actually looked like one in our year here.

The after [...]

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Koppu Komes Karrying…Kites?

So Typhoon Signal 8 got hoisted (I don’t know where they do the actual hoisting) around 6pm. All the shops are shutting…up shop…and the bus lines are like bread lines in communist Russia of old.
So the likelihood that it is still around come 6am tomorrow is about as likely as me winning a Pulitzer for [...]

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Happy New School Year!

Good morning children and welcome to a very special T1 morning!
To celebrate your first week back at school we will probably issue a T8 on Tuesday just so you can feel all messed up with your sleeping patterns and your teachers can reminisce on summer mornings long gone.

Don’t want to tempt fate or anything but [...]

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Boring Video Post et al

A very boring video of a short part of my bus journey every morning to show the video quality of the iphone 3Gs as requested by a reader who shall remain nameless. Actually it’s probably the worst sample I could give due to dirty windows and a dodgy suspension.
On Friday we went over to Hung [...]

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