Category: Ramblings

Stuff and Nonsense.

I’ve been seriously lapse of late – Chewbury.Net has become a place of Endless Echoing Silence, and The Temple of Bague has been reduced to an electronic Larry-count. I guess it’s just cos of all the other stuff that’s been going of late – the run up to christmas, rediscovering miniature painting, working, kids clubs,

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Delhi’s deputy mayor killed by monkeys | The Register

“Delhi’s deputy mayor SS Bajwa died yesterday as a result of “serious head injuries” after falling from his first-floor terrace while attempting to fight off a pack of wild monkeys, the BBC reports.” Whu? The sounds like the kind of thing the British Government would come up with. Delhi’s deputy mayor killed by monkeys |

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Words of Truth

“One of them has a face like a bee-keeper’s apprentice, and the other one just looks shifty.” Grace Dent on Robson and Jerome

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Virtually non-stick’ gum created

Outstanding! Chewing gum that doesn’t stick, researched at great expense by the world’s top scientists! Presumably, it’s stage one of a long running project to create fewer sticky substances that cause researchers heads to be stuck up their backsides, resulting in more time spent working on ways to avoid impending extinction by global warming! ps

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Off at a tangent

Ok, we’re having a slight shift around. That incorrigible reprobate, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, has been filling this here blog with so many postings that we’ve insisted he takes his tweed cap and wanders off to his own website. So, from this day forth, the Chewbury Gubbins game diary lives on its own silly little domain,

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Back at work

Imagine my surprise to discover I’ve not come back to any kind of drama or bloodletting at all! The server-migration deadline I thought was on the 15th isn’t actually until the 18th, which is TONS of time, so hooray me! The downside (there’s always one) is that I’m currently installing a Red Hat Enterprise box

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Glencoe

I really can’t describe the majesty and peacefulness of Glencoe. Pictures don’t seem to work either. But I’ve taken some pictures anyway. We only got to see a tiny part of the Glen this year, but we’ll be travelling a bit more extensively next year. Here’s some pics.

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Holidays!

Well, my mate Martin told me about this concept where you go and live somewhere else for a while and then come back, but without shipping all your belongings along with you. It’s called “Holiday”. Well, that’s where we’re going tomorrow! So, we’re packing up our tent and barbeque and heading off for the wilds

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