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Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

1 February 2010
By John A Smith
Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

Jayne-Amelia recommended a favorite video on YouTube, the phrase Sand Animation caught my eye so I had a look, the video was so delightful and moving I decided to find the artists web-site if possible, I found some more of her amazing work on ArtisticThings.com. Xenia Simonoff or Kseniya Simonova is a sand painter who...
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Stephen Fry was there!

30 January 2010
By John A Smith
Stephen Fry was there!

Today I had a look at Stephen Fry’s web-site, actually I only opened it to create a new tab in my browser to go to some other web-site, but while there I noticed that he had been at the launch of the new Apple...
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Driving The Saudis

21 January 2010
By John A Smith
Driving The Saudis

Giovanna recommended a video on facebook; “Anybody in Memphis? Go check out Jayne Amelia Larson in her one woman show – a must see!!!!!”. I had a look at the video on youtube, see below, and decided that if I’d been in Memphis I would...
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Cues n Views on facebook

15 January 2010
By John A Smith
Cues n Views on facebook

Today I added a Cues n Views fan page to facebook as David has received a few e-mails requesting him to be their facebook friend. (including one today). Of course this meant putting David himself on facebook, which I did inputting as little information as...
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Simon Templar is The Saint

14 January 2010
By John A Smith
Simon Templar is The Saint

I completed the set up of my Simon Templar is The Saint web-site dedicated to all things relating to the famous character created by Leslie Charteris today. It was the same day that I received my copy of The Saint Steps In . ....
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National Chairman’s BLOG

13 January 2010
By John A Smith

While I was National Chairman of Plus (www.plusgroups.org.uk) I posted a BLOG on www.wordpress.com along the lines of a more tradititional journal, it’s not complete, but gives an idea of what I was doing during those four years. Today I updated the theme, I’m stillnot...
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Television Treasures

9 January 2010
By John A Smith
Television Treasures

Last night David and I had a discussion about our next web-site project and came up with the idea of Television Treasures, it’s a web-site dedicated to those favourite television programmes of years gone by that we remember with real fondness. I’ve made a start...
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Cute With Chris

3 January 2010
By John A Smith
Cute With Chris

Showed David this hilarious video made by a BLOGger who receives incessant e-mails that annoy him. I suppose anyone who runs a web-site gets questions that are answered on the web-site, rude comments on your personal opinion, irrelevant questions and points and these can be...
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Christmas Meal

18 December 2009
By John A Smith
Christmas Meal

The Christmas do at the George hotel was a funny do, there was a leak, the staff decided to move the table which then collapsed, then the sound system stopped working and when it was fixed the sound was poor. The food was average....
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Dental check-up

17 December 2009
By John A Smith

Teeth OK – no fillings required, extraction healing nicely, dark area on tooth a slight concern – that’s something to look forward to!
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Tooth Extraction

15 December 2009
By John A Smith

Oh the pain, the pain!
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Satirical cartoons

9 December 2009
By John A Smith
Satirical cartoons

At least I’m not the only one who thinks we should go out and meet people in the real world and see the real world – join a club like Plus. I was so delighted with this video that I put it on the Leeds...
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Jeremy Hardy

27 November 2009
By John A Smith
Jeremy Hardy

This evening I went to the Lawrence Batley Theatre to meet up with Rudi to see Jeremy Hardy, the satirical comedian. He put on a very good show for us. He said he liked Northern Audiences, talked about middle class attitudes and satirized the Government,...
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