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About Barrie

Digital Storyteller, Media Trainer, Hill Walker, Cyclist, Husband, Father, Grandad, Christian, Blogger, Writer, Baby Boomer, Mac Head, Photographer

Worth seeing live

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Duke Special from Belfast are worth seeing live. I saw them perform on the mainstage at Greenbelt last year. Good value, lots of fun and not in the mould.

Duke Special

New Live Dates – Duke Special Forum
After the success of the Irish solo tour, Duke will be touring without his band in England and Wales for the first time, and will be showcasing new material. Dates follow – please note that these are not on sale yet.

May
Wednesday 28th – Oxford Academy
Thursday 29th – Bristol Thekla
Friday 30th – Hebden Bridge Picture House
Saturday 31st – Norwich Arts Centre

June
Monday 2nd – Birmingham Glee Club
Tuesday 3rd – Brighton Komedia
Wednesday 4th – Cardiff Glee Club
Thursday 5th – Aldershot West End Centre

Plans ignore cyclists

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Richard George: Plans ignore cyclists | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health
My local supermarket was designed by a driver, for drivers. This, despite the fact I live in Hackney, London, where less than half the population drives and 70% of shopping trips in the borough are made on foot. Nine buses stop outside the supermarket and most of the customers live in nearby flats, but my supermarket would rather everyone drove – and they have designed everything to try and ensure we do.

Richard George is right – planners are making it impossible to use a bike for shopping or commuting. It’s time they brought their green ambitions into line with their aspirations.

Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit

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BBC NEWS | Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit

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Hundreds of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into giggles while reading a bulletin on Today.She lost control after playing a clip of the oldest known recording of the human voice.

Charlotte Green has my sympathy – as someone who used to read news bulletins I know the dreadful feeling when a fit of the giggles interrupts your normally sedate reading voice.

The one that I recall most vividly was when I was reading a piece of copy, “North Yorkshire dinner ladies were toasted for winning an employment tribunal case over equal pay”. My imagination played riot with the idea of toasted dinner ladies.

Review: The Other Boleyn Girl

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I was very disappointed with this film. Had I been on my own I would have left the cinema part way through I was so disengaged.
No effort was made to create the characters – I felt nothing for any of them. As the film progressed I didn’t care what happened to any of them. Bad things happened to them all – there was no redemption.
The story is about how Ann Boleyn became the second of Henry VIII’s wives. I know it was a bleak era in England’s history – but in this film it was boring too.
Thankfully it was a cheap seats night – so it only cost me £3.50 – and it was cold too.
Perfectly miss-able.