Monthly Archives: May 2006

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In this issue This week: Towel Day Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This week

How many of you celebrated Towel Day by carrying a towel last Thursday? What? You’ve never heard of Towel Day? Me neither until this week.

Douglas Adams, creator of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” – radio series, books, TV series, adventure games, and most recently film – died just over five years ago on 11 May 2001. Almost


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Pic of the Week – 29 May 2006

by CustomStrat © 2006

All images are digitally watermarked – please don’t infringe copyright!

CustomStrat adds:

“Somehow, I’ve always found that the best pix of me have been self-portraits. I’m guessing that self-portraits work because one knows how one looks best, to oneself…”

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Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.

In this issue This week: Nudity Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This week

Some of you may have heard the news story about the nude rambler who was arrested last week for stripping off in a plane flying from Southampton to Edinburgh. When I asked on the BE forum about why some people get so worked up about nudity, it sparked quite a debate! So I decided it seemed like a good


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Past cases: May 2006

Here are the cases dealt with on Ruth’s page for May 2006.

My daughter, Sophie, finds it really difficult to make decisions. She dithers about everything – what to wear, what present to give, what sweets to choose etc. It’s driving us all up the wall. She’s only nine, I can see it getting worse and worse. What can I do?

This seems to be something that affects a lot of us – and is probably evenly divided between


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Pic of the Week – 22 May 2006

by Mike Clark © 2005

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Mike adds:

“There’s just far too much competition on here.

“So I won’t even bother to offer the flowering Scots Pine.”

Mike, of course, is our resident gardening expert on BE – you can read what he has to say on the subject of Scots pines here: Clark in the Park: A Pine to Piddle Against

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