By mattr on June 16, 2008
The 2008 – 2009 Premier league fixtures are out…and would you believe it, this is how we finish up the season:
Man U and Chelsea in the last three games – if it’s close, then that’ll be truly squeaky bum time!
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By mattr on June 7, 2008
The Getty Images Moodstream – they need to make this a screensaver
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By mattr on June 6, 2008
Euro 2008 kicks off tomorrow in Austria & Switzerland, there is no England this time, so we won;t have to go through the endless obsessing about whether Lampard and Gerrard can play in the same midfield, or sit through the inevitable disappointment of us getting knocked out by penalties just before the end of the [...]
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By mattr on June 5, 2008
I didn’t know much about Shearwater before I picked this new release up. A bit of research tells me that they are linked to Okkervil River out of Austin, Texas – who I have been really enjoying recently.
I had heard Leviathan Bound on a compilation somewhere, and I loved the combination of the slightly falsetto [...]
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By mattr on June 3, 2008
Wonderful set of photographs of Moscow in the 1960’s – from EnglishRussia
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By mattr on June 3, 2008
Long before Jim Davidson came along to buy the pier, and before the flood of 1953 – Great Yarmouth had a giant conker floating in its swimming pool to attract the crowds, as this 1934 postcard sent to Densham, Gateshead on Tyne shows.
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By mattr on June 2, 2008
What do The Marquis de Sade (Author and Weirdo – 1740), Johnny Weismuller (Tarzan – 1904), Charlie Watts (Drummer – 1941), Peter Sutcliffe (Serial Murder – 1946), Keith Allen (Actor and Hellraiser- 1953), Craig Stadler (Golfer – 1953), Tony Hadley (Singer – 1960), Jon Culshaw (Rubbish Impressionist – 1968), Me (Ummm – 1969), Nikolay Davydenko [...]
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By mattr on June 1, 2008
A nice card sent in 1958 from Bowleaze Cove in Weymouth to Chippenham in Wiltshire. I love the fact that the sender saw Charlie Drake (Hello My Darlings!) during their holiday. Loads of weather information going on here as well – click more for the full message.
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