My surprise is not so much in the way Lidl managed to win, but how they managed to gain a trademark for a yellow disk on a blue background in the first place.
Has no-one looked at the sky recently?
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A word you should not use
He was twenty minutes into the sermon when he heard the sound of a little girl’s voice in the congregation. She was speaking to her mother, who was desperately trying to tell her, quietly, not to speak. Then everyone one heard it: ‘But mummy, he used the word which you said we should never say’. He thought back for a moment at what he had just said, and wishing to take away the mother’s now very public embarrassment, he addressed the little girl:
Continue readingThe winter’s past
A winter’s tail may yet in spring
Be seen upon the wall
But mare’s tail found agathering
Where roses should be, all
The cold icicles of winter
have done their work in stone
Whilst rootlets in the earth prepared
to make their presence known
And we have felt the icy blast
With rain upon the head
But hearts with pleasant thoughts were warmed
And nothings only said.
Now to this day, as long ago,
We quickly do repair
Another year, the old doth wane,
Refresh you with due care!
1915 Charles Rennie Mackintosh – Fleming Collection
Not at the occident
12/04/2023
Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground
Does it really matter who leaked them? What really matters is are they true? Are NATO troops involved in the war? Some may argue that it is OK to sell arms to Ukraine, even to give them, and continue to claim that we are not involved in the fighting, but when we are on the ground? Surely that claim, if it has not already done so by the provision of arms, falls flat?
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Just criticism
10/04/2023
China jails prominent legal activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi
The BBC reported that ‘in response to past criticism about its human rights record, Beijing has said “only the 1.3 billion* Chinese people have a say on China’s human rights”.’ It could well have added: ‘and if any of them exercise their right to have their say, we shall listen to them. In due time there shall be no more criticism’.
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Taste and see
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Protected: Kate Goriunova
Press on
On the first January 19891 Philip asked us whether we were ready for a new year as men count years, but recognising that we are creatures of times, pressed this home upon us, as we consider the old year and the new year, how things are and how they ought to be, are we considering the most important thing? Moses considered the most important thing when he asked Jehovah to show him his glory. This is the most important thing: God himself. Do we consider that?
Two and thirty years later on the eighth August 20212 he asked another almost equally important question, having in mind that it is God himself who is at work in us:
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