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The Moving Finger writes;
and, having writ,
Moves on:
nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back
to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears
wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
Some interesting stories:
An Island to Oneself
The Man Who Loved Islands
German Harry
French Joe
The Riddle of the Sands
The Lotus Eater
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Lost Horizon
This blog has no particular axe to grind, apart from that of having no particular axe to grind. I am not persuading you or anyone else to believe anything that is reported on or linked to from this site, but I am encouraging you to use all available resources to form your own judgement about important things that affect all our lives.
The Moving Finger writes;
and, having writ,
Moves on:
nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back
to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears
wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
My moving finger keeps writing
so please keep coming back!
Some interesting stories:
An Island to Oneself
The Man Who Loved Islands
German Harry
French Joe
The Riddle of the Sands
The Lotus Eater
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Lost Horizon
Some interesting movies:
The Wind in the Willows
Seven Years in Tibet
Das Rätsel der Sandbank
Siddhartha
Ring of Bright Water
Wake in Fright
Lord Jim
Three Men in a Boat
... and here are trailers of some of the movies in my large collection!
And here are my other blogs:
What's new at Nelligen?
On the road to Bali
Riverbend Cottage
Jokes
Nelligen Yacht Club
BHP Charting
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Useful utilities
CommSec
Baltic Dry Index
Kitco Base Metals
BHP Billiton
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London Stock Exchange
Bloomberg
Diggers & Drillers
John Mauldin
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Selective alphabetical index
Australian Robinson Crusoe [click]
Barton House [click]
Book "Lost Horizon" [click]
Book "A Different Drummer" [click]
Book "Closing Time"[click]
Book "Ring of Bright Water" [click]
Book "The Illustrious Dead" [click]
Book "Poles Apart" [click]
Book "The Kingdom" [click]
Book "Tangerine" [click]
Bougainville [click]
Car Improvements [click]
Climategate [click]
David Glasheen [click]
Desiderata [click]
Divorce German Style [click]
English Language [click]
Epicurus [click]
Fahrende Gesellen [click]
Graham Greene [click]
Hermann Hesse [click]
Horst Berger [click]
Jerome K. Jerome [click]
Karl-Heinz Herzberg[click]
Parallel Lives[click]
Mofarrij-D[click]
Movie "Lost Horizon" [click]
Movie "Nietzsche Wept"[click]
Movie "The Painted Veil" [click]
Movie "Once Upon A Time" [click]
Movie "Romulus" [click]
Movie "Fall of the Republic" [click]
Movie "Monsieur Ibrahim" [click]
Movie "Death of a Princess" [click]
Movie "Van Diemen's Land" [click]
Movie "Piroschka" [click]
Movie "Lord Jim" [click]
Movie "Zorba the Greek" [click]
Movie "Out of Africa" [click]
Mozart Effect [click]
Pigeon Island [click]
Somerset Maugham [click]
Tuvalu [click]
Tech Support [click]
Tare Weight [click]
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