The National Archives
This is my favorite resource when I am doing research.
The National Archives, the official archive for England, Wales, and also for central UK government, contains 900 years of history with digital files of parchment and paper scrolls being put on websites, along with audio files
It is more than capable of meeting the demands of a student, a teacher, or doing private research into such areas as Family History, with online tutorials and an extensive variety of guides all designed to help you locate, interpret and understand the records you need for your area of research.
There is even a kids section. 
Friday 21 December 2007
Do You have The Knowledge? The National Archives Do!
Divinyl does Bob Harris Shocker!! LOL
Once again, Divinyl has triggered a long cherished but forgotten memory today.
Checking out her feed in Netvibes and her post of Sam Baker being interviewed by Bob Harris from the BBC brought back watching Bob introduce some fantastic music to this young teenager, staying up way past his bedtime.
So now old Bob is back on the menu boys!
Thanks Divinyl, and now back to Bob in the studio...
Bob Harris
Monday 17 December 2007
What's the Most Important Thing to You?
Here is an exercise in stripping away what we think we believe to be what we think as important to reveal something else.
Just pose the question to yourself and write whatever comes into your mind.
What's the Most Important Thing to You?
See! I am not just a bit paranoid ! The Raw Story | AT&T engineer says Bush Admin sought to implement domestic spying within 2 weeks of taking office
See! I am not just a bit paranoid!!!
Extract from forth coming novel by Paul Dice......
'I would draw m'Lud's attention to the previous article placed by my client on the Helium site recalling his account of being hacked by a foreign power's security agency, and has provided his computer records showing the software devices used to gain control of his machine.'
The Raw Story | AT&T engineer says Bush Administration sought to implement domestic spying within two weeks of takingPublish Post office
Friday 14 December 2007
Do You Zoom? - BloggingZoom Review | PureBlogging
Another great post on the subject of BloggingZoom, this time by Sharon Hurley Hall, a freelance writer.
Do You Zoom? - BloggingZoom Review | PureBlogging
Thursday 13 December 2007
Incoming Yahoo !!!!..Take Cover!!!!
Well I finally got round to importing my latest Blogger entries and the whole of my Yahoo blog into Multiply.
Not too keen on the way Multiply has laid it out, from the oldest to the latest, but maybe it is configurable.
Tuesday 11 December 2007
RSS? what's RSS Precious?
RSS? what's RSS Precious?
Nice article, in fact a great blog, from New York Comedienne LucyDee.
Consider yourself RSS (ed) Lucy!!
Not only funny, but clever.
Get paid to blog! | Rich Mudkip
Came across this site on BloggingZoom..just the info I was looking for!!
Share and Enjoy!
Get paid to blog! | Rich Mudkip
Sorting out the emails and giving feedback
It's nice when people stay in touch..you know..your just sat there ..thinking of them.. as you do... when either the phone rings and it is them or an email lands on your cybermat...then after chasing your cyberdogbot to get the email out of it's virtual grip, you can see who has sent you love, scams and downright chicanery.
Out of all the social networking, blog promotion type things I have joined, Blogcatalog has some of the more active members. I regularly receive and give out these broadcast messages and they a jolly good way of letting everyone know what is happening.
Well Hello Molly...Nice of you to drop by..help yourself to some food and drink, I'm sure the others will be along in a short while...emmm?....
Anyone up for this?
It is nice to share and play with your friends....
and then I can move on to the next email account and do it all over again..what fun!!!
Monday 10 December 2007
How Viral Linking Taught Me To Be Patient at Planet Saedel | PlanetSaedel | PlanetSaedel.com | Saedel Pensoy
Came across this as an up and coming blog entry on the BloggingZoom site on Viral Linking and it reminded me of that retched Meme Divinyl got me involved with. LOL.
How Viral Linking Taught Me To Be Patient at Planet Saedel | PlanetSaedel | PlanetSaedel.com | Saedel Pensoy
Memoirs: Childhood memories - Memoirs - Helium - by Paul Dice
I found myself thinking over the past lately.
I guess that what being an adult is really all about, working out what happened in the past.
Yesterday would have been my twentieth wedding anniversary to my first wife, so the day was a reflective one, thinking of who I was and what I was embarking on all those years ago.
Anyway, this led to a small article I have put on the Helium site, not about my wedding or marriage but some of my earliest memories.
Memoirs: Childhood memories - Memoirs - Helium - by Paul Dice
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Do you always follow your instincts? Do you ‘go with the flow’?
Do you always follow your instincts? Do you ‘go with the flow’?
I didn’t yesterday and I really wished I had.
It all started out when the g/f said she wanted to go out shopping and said 'you don't have to come if you don't want to,' but she really gave me that look which said 'and so do you'. I wasn't really into the idea, and I felt a little harassed into going.
We set off in the car and firstly, it's 'Oh! Let us go and get some tyres for the car’ a task which I said, I would do this week; I thought it was a good idea and off we go, round to a local tyre shop.
Now my g/f is a lovely woman and she likes to be as helpful as she can. One of her habits is to tell me, when we are pulling out a road junction, if it is clear of traffic and is safe to pull out. Now I must admit that this does wind me up a bit.
It is my responsibility as the driver of the car, to look and check that it is safe, but she likes to sit forward and look, obscuring my view. I have tried to mention this to her but she takes it a bit personal so I have learnt to just shut up.
I guess it is a survival technique most men are equipped with.
Anyway, we pulled out and drove down to the local industrial estate, parked up and the guy came out had a look and announced that we needed two new tyres.
Er? Yes? That’s why we are here.
So while he is fitting them we go and have a look round a couple of large furniture and carpeting stores nearby followed by a nice a hot cup of tea a lay-by cafe.
After half an hour, we head back to the tyre fitters. It cost £70 for the tyres and fitting. Not too bad, I guess, but we could have done without the expense just before Christmas, though, having said that, we do have a long journey up to my hometown coming up and it is better to have the car nice and safe.
Next we are off into the town to do some shopping at the local outdoor market and managed to find a good parking spot just near the vegetable stall, just were my g/f wanted to go. Having bought a few items, I took them back to the car, and then, for the next couple of hours we went round the local charity shops to see if we can find a few bargains.
By the end of this, I had had enough. I am not a mass consumer, I don't like wandering around shops much, particularly at this time of year as the shops have their heating on full and I find it just too hot. So I was glad to be making our way back to the car, but, oh no, just one more shop she need to go in.
I decided to wait outside and watched to stall holders dismantling their stalls and packing them into trailers.
A driver pulled out of a parking spot just in front of the store I was outside of and I toyed with the idea of moving the car up and parking it there. I couldn't see my g/f from were I was stood to tell her that is what I was going to do so I didn’t bother walking the short distance to the car. Finally, she emerged and we wandered down and got into the car.
I backed out and drove along the route we had walked to the junction ahead and I stopped. On my left, one of the stallholders I had been watching had pulled his vehicle right across the road to hook up his trailer and had block access from the left so I slowly pulled away over the junction, checking that no vehicles were going to pull out on me from the right. My g/f was chatting like a parrot on speed about going from there to see a friend when bang!
What I hadn't noticed was that at that same instant, the stall holder had backed up his vehicle and trailer back on to the pavement, (side walk to my US friends), and a car had come round and hit the car in my g/f's passenger door.
So we have gone from my g/f's total obsession for checking that things are safe to a situation were she didn't, and I had got used to her telling me that it was clear and keeping my mouth shut to keep the peace and wasn't as cautious as I normally am.
So the police arrive, take statements from all parties involved and passed around the breath analyser to check that it wasn't all due to alcohol consumption, which it wasn't, I NEVER drink and drive.
So, now we have a car with two brand new tyres and one very bent door.
The car isn't worth very much and so the insurance will probably write it off and we have the hassle of sorting out a vehicle before the weekend as her sister is due to arrive and I am the nominated driver to ferry them all around. We also need a vehicle to drive the 250 miles to my family and we cannot do that in a car that the door doesn’t open.
Just wish I had followed my instincts and just said what I wanted to say, no, I don't want to go shopping.
Tuesday 4 December 2007
BBC NEWS | UK | Teacher speaks of Sudan 'ordeal'
Dum dum dum dum dum
If you go down to Sudan today..don't you take any stuffed toys...
Glad this nonsense is over.
BBC NEWS | UK | Teacher speaks of Sudan 'ordeal'
Saturday 1 December 2007
Trying to look beyond the Media Face of Sudan
The continuing fiasco regarding 54 year old Gillian Gibbons, a UK teacher from Liverpool, jailed for 15 days in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad, is still heading the media in the UK with a meeting with two British Muslim peers, Labour's Lord Ahmed and Conservative Baroness Warsi, at a secret location in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
BBC News
The media coverage in the UK has been dominated by images of Sudanese men, no women, riding on donkeys, horses and carts, shouting and wielding sticks and swords apparently calling for this woman to be put to death for her ignorance.
The question I have running through my mind is who has demonstrated a greater amount of ignorance, the woman for not seeking guidance from those running the school, those running the school for not supporting a member of their staff team or those calling for her to lose her life over a soft toy?
Though I hope that the more extreme elements of the Sudanese's religious and judiciary far right do not success in their reactionary desires.
If harm should befall this mature lady, that the Western powers do all they can to apply diplomatic pressure and punitive economic sanctions.
Having said how I feel, it was gratify to read that not all of the inhabitants of Sudan support these medieval minded zealots.
The Holy Room : The Sudanese Thinker
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