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Congestion Charging For Royston Vasey?

 

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Royston Vasey Parish Council is considering introducing Congestion Charging to reduce the congestion caused by motor vehicles on local roads.


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But this has so got to be rush hour in New Zealand, Cloggo!

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Drink was his muse, and he surrendered totally!

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

A writer has no responsibility, except to jack off in bed alone and type a good page.

Charles Bukowski


Via charlesbukowski and sprbd


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One of several recent works by the chameleon Tindink, who is not only both a Tumblr and a lady mayoress but also, it turns out, a multi-media artist with impeccable taste and many skills. Go here to see more of her work.

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From the cosmology of a John Kos


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Nineteen more of these delightful cards here


and if you want to make the first move with me on FB, click the av … ;=)

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Just in case someone, anyone, was wondering: a self-portrait in the form of a list

 

My home
messy, small, in the middle of a big city

Sections I would head for in a large general bookstore
Art, Anthologies, History

Favourite modes of transport
Walking if it’s not too hot, train, pedal car

Favourite foods
Cheese, ice-cream, Thai curries

Marital status
Unmarriable

Masculinity/femininity if 1 is say Marilyn Monroe and 10 Camille Paglia
Eight

As a child I was …
Serious, frustrated, plain

Favourite writers
I need a year off to catch up with writers, books and stories; and in fact anything longer than an essay or newspaper article

Three countries I would like to spend more time in
Greece, Britain, the medieval world

My parents …
Didn’t take any nonsense, loved to laugh, improved with age

Things I couldn’t live without
Music, the internet, colour

Desert island discs
Wagner (The Ring Cycle), Handel’s Messiah, complete works of Pentangle

Ideal holiday
~ Exploring Britain — with a laptop for access to history and literary guides and transport info;
~ People-watching in the old city of Jerusalem;
~ Travelling all over Greece with a musicologist

Causes I support
~ Palestinian right of return;
~ Outlawing Scientology and other cults,
~ Redressing wrongs against Australian Aborigines and making teaching of their myths and traditions compulsory in schools

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Santa Barbara photographer Toby Keller specialises in long exposures — ie low-light photography — seascapes, skies and the colour blue.

See more at his website or in Flickr




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