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Overland Part Three – Across The Channel

April 22, 2018
by George Emsden
300 spartans, bodge repair, chiang mai, delphi, kerkyra, layshaft, SOE, sok raki, st gotthard pass, thermopyllae
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Wheelnuts soaking in Oil Last task before actually boarding a ferry is to visit the engineering company which has offered us a set of lockable wheelnuts featured on BBC Tomorrows World a few months before. Turning up at the works, the boss asks us to pop back after a couple of hours w
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Overland Part Two – Be Prepared

April 12, 2018
by George Emsden
BRUT, carnets de passage en douane, exchange and mart, hippy trail, LWB Land Rover, mole wrench, morris minor, National Cash Register, NCR Greenford, NIMBY, overland, pennine potholes, RB211, Rolls Royce, tourist visas, travel writing, UMIST, Vickers VC10
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Chapter Two We need a vehicle  for the trip, and it’s not going to be the Bedford Dormobile or the more common VW Camper. While the trip to India has been done on bicycles, motorcycles – with and without sidecars and even a little Austin 7, we are going to do it in style i
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William of Ockham’s Day – 10th April

April 08, 2018
by George Emsden
avignon papacy, contact - film, excommunication, jodie foster, johannes poncius, john punch, keep it simple, ockham's commentaries, ockham's razor, order of st francis
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Ockham’s Razor My almost favourite film Contact starring Jodie Foster mentions Ockham’s Razor where the principle is: keep it simple. If you prefer the original Latin: entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitate or stick to the basic idea – cut away the crap. Th
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The Taxi Driver’s War

April 03, 2018
by George Emsden
colin powell, curveball, george bush jnr, googly, gulf war, Iraq war, saddam hussein, taxi driver war, weapons of mass destruction, WMD
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What Name do you give to a War? The First World War is called the Great War after not being the War to End all Wars. World War Two is called The Great Patriotic War by the Russians. Gulf War One was Saddam Hussein‘s invasion of Kuwait while the Second Gulf War could easily be ca
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Overland Part One – Go East Young Man

March 26, 2018
by George Emsden
beatles, Cambridge may balls, english A level, flower power, ford anglia, harry potter, overland, oxford commem balls, pancreatic cancer, peter hain, peter hitchens, tom sharpe, visit thailand, wilt
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Go to India! Dad gets promotion but it means moving from Cambridge where I grew up, to its rival Oxford. Just inside the Oxford Ring Road, the new family home is in Old Marston two miles from the even smaller village Elsfield, resting place of Baron Tweedsmuir, former Governor General
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The Opposite of a Bank? (3Cs Community #19)

March 22, 2018
by George Emsden
bank of telecom, bitcoin, coincheck, cryptocurrency, Next Meal, reed smith, taylor wessing
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Reed Smith again host 3Cs Community at their offices in the Broadgate Tower where guest speaker is Mark Stewart of IMC/Bank of Telecom. This is not a bank as you know it, rather a platform for trading telecom services including automated payment services that ultimately aim to remove
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Before Computer Hacking…

March 17, 2018
by George Emsden
captain crunch, hacking, Josef Engressia, joybubbles, phreaking, whistles
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….There was Phone Phreaking A kid born blind in 1949 has a miserable childhood. At his school for blind children, he is abused by a nun, his mother pushes him to live up to his high IQ and his parents’ marriage is violent. But he has a talent – perfect pitch. Usually
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Ken Dodd RIP

March 12, 2018
by George Emsden
bauhaus movement, dara o'briain, knotty ash, self-assessment, tax avoidance, tax evasion
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Glad I saw Ken Dodd live in Wolverhampton when I had the chance. My blog from 2012. How Tickled I am As a writer, one tends to read a lot. And in a small way to help to keep my local library open, much of this is by reserving books from there. Haringey has a pretty good service but so
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What did you do in the Great War Daddy?

March 02, 2018
by George Emsden
battle of the somme, chemical weapons, compline, first world war, great war, horses as draught animals
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Shoeing Smith So what did my granddad do? Unsurprisingly: His peace time job – a shoeing smith meaning he specialised in shoeing horses – important assets in the days before cars became universal. Just as you can’t run a fleet of lorries without mechanics, the work o
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