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Streaming telly ads are bigging-up tourism to Antarctica which may involve air travel and burning kerosene but what bothers me is the infrastructure that is invoked so that a pristine place will no longer be pristine but people will have their holiday snaps to show their friends so that's all right
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Female flower just right of centre near bottom of image
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"We have taken the decision to leave X"
Well done You
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It gets better - the original uke head broke & my Grandad got a pig bladder from the butcher & sent it to Tunisia in a Tam O'Shanter tobacco tin & Dad stretched it & fitted it as a replacement. It survived the War, Italy occupation & it still works - faded writing, visible blood vessels and all.
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WEF
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My father issued himself a driving licence while he was in the Royal Engineers. He added in permission to drive “a track laying vehicle steered through its tracks” so he could have a go on the battalion bulldozer. That extra qualification stayed on his licence for fifty years.
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The same could be said for the behaviour of NGOs that disneyfy every location and calendar event for the purposes of increasing their pension fund while claiming to have policies which reduce their emissions
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As you age every day is a greater part of your remaining life and time passes faster for you than for a younger person
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My Dad wrote the names of encampments of the 45th Light Anti-Aircraft around the edge of his ukulele head. Faded now and only Sidi Barani is readable. An illegal record at the time, I believe
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My Dad never had to take a civilian test because he learned to drive off roads into wadis in the Army. In his 40s he took the Institute of Advanced Motoring test so he could display an 'I AM' badge on his bumper
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I used to scan them but always felt the results were too stark