http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/index.phpThu, 17 May 2012 08:05:46 +0100 Phorum 5.2.8 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197961,197961#msg-197961 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197961,197961#msg-197961So much change in a few years and nobody is more enthusiastic than me. I love the richness and the diversity of being shown different foods.
I know that our food is usually inherited from what our ancestors had available and so in Scotland it tends to be very basic but good too.(tu)

We have so much to learn from one another, so much to share, just a pity that when things get out of balance (think inner city ghettos) that the goodwill recedes.]]> stormwolf DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 22:47:28 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197935,197935#msg-197935 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197935,197935#msg-197935


:)]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 20:40:02 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197931,197931#msg-197931 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197931,197931#msg-197931vimeo.com]]]> Simon DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 21:57:40 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197930,197930#msg-197930 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197930,197930#msg-197930www.bof.nl]]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 20:41:03 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?33,197895,197895#msg-197895 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?33,197895,197895#msg-197895
This looks like such an interesting place to be !]]> Nimuae Introduce yourself! (host Stormwolf)Wed, 16 May 2012 22:38:36 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197887,197887#msg-197887 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197887,197887#msg-197887


]]> Shywolf DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 03:16:42 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197884,197884#msg-197884 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197884,197884#msg-197884could be. I could do with some 'latest news' for the slot on the front page, so if anyone's got a book they want to promote, or an event, send me a short blurb with details (David's 'Engineering Paradise'?) - title, links to reviews and where to buy etc and I'll shove it up (so to speak).]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 12:12:10 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197807,197807#msg-197807 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197807,197807#msg-197807]]> Shywolf DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Tue, 15 May 2012 08:50:10 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197781,197781#msg-197781 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197781,197781#msg-197781www.informationclearinghouse.info]]]> Simon DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:10 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?12,197774,197774#msg-197774 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?12,197774,197774#msg-197774
I've had a quick look at Scrivener for instance, but not in enough detail to punt £40 on it. Has anyone used it and is it worth it, or is there something else that works as well? I'm wary of just writing away because I suspect that it will just make everything harder work in the long run...]]> TheBigBadG Publishing/Writing (host Michel)Tue, 15 May 2012 10:35:12 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197763,197763#msg-197763 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197763,197763#msg-197763www.dailymail.co.uk]

I found them fascinating too, because during research of my family tree, I came across a Mary Lowne (1700's I think) who had been sent to a penal colony (the US) for murdering her newborn infant.]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 08:22:48 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197761,197761#msg-197761 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197761,197761#msg-197761]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 21:24:15 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197740,197740#msg-197740 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197740,197740#msg-197740Topic is linked) and Add my signature to this message (signature is linked).
I think my spam filter is blocking the pages, Inspect Element highlights them as MIVA AdLink highYield. but nothing comes up on Google.

Blimey - as soon as I previewed this, spamfilter and MIVA developed links too!]]> expat DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 21:33:17 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197731,197731#msg-197731 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197731,197731#msg-197731
Last Christmas, I was given a kindle which I just love, and it started me off reading again. In my reading to do list, I had a PDF of Engineering Paradise. David Gardiner kindly gave me a copy. I knew I would eventually get round to it and I sent it to my kindle and have just recently read it. David, I wasn't disappointed. I really enjoyed it. The only thing I didn't like, and it pales into insignificance now, was the chapter titles, certainly at the beginning of the book. They were too simplistic, hope that's not rude to say that. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a damn good kindle read! I was out somewhere once and waiting and wondered if I had Engineering Paradise on my phone and did a search, and blow me it took me to Amazon, where I could buy the book! Congratulations! I suddenly felt really honoured to have had a book sent to me by a published author lol!

I really miss writing, and it is impossible to do everything, isn't it. I am half thinking that in 2013 I'll come back to it and when I do, I will be back here too.

Hope everyone is doing okay and still producing great stories. Thanks for listening to me ramble. And congratulations again, David.

ll the best
Kazz

[cross-stitching-kazzmoss.blogspot.co.uk]]]> Kazzmoss DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 10:34:09 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197720,197720#msg-197720 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197720,197720#msg-197720A matter of perspective - scroll in and out to get an idea as to where you stand in the grand scheme of things.]]> expat DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 20:22:49 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197714,197714#msg-197714 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197714,197714#msg-197714
[www.dailymail.co.uk]]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:06 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197705,197705#msg-197705 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197705,197705#msg-197705 e-griff DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Thu, 17 May 2012 02:13:42 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197699,197699#msg-197699 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197699,197699#msg-197699
By Yvonne Ridley

May 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Kuala Lumpur -- IT’S OFFICIAL - George W Bush is a war criminal.

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.

The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.

The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia's retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He sat through the entire hearing as it took personal statements and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid, Moazzam Begg and Jameelah Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen.

After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting away with murder.”

War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, was part of the prosecution team.

After the case he said: “This is the first conviction of these people anywhere in the world.”

While the hearing is regarded by some as being purely symbolic, human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and Co could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.

“We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but were thwarted by the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to Switzerland. The Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the same happened in Germany.”]]> Simon DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Sun, 13 May 2012 01:08:42 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197690,197690#msg-197690 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197690,197690#msg-197690
Anywayyyyy... any of you guys ever gone out with call girls like this?
Probably be all right if they were inviting some girl friends over though. :)o]]> expat DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 16:07:24 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?22,197687,197687#msg-197687 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?22,197687,197687#msg-197687
He's found a ACER 11.6 ins Aspire1 code: AO722-C62KK which he says looks interesting. Any thoughts?]]> Andrea The Computer Corner (hosts Jeff and Shywolf)Mon, 14 May 2012 17:06:54 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197662,197662#msg-197662 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197662,197662#msg-197662






(Question for Sargent expat: As you can see from the second pic, there's a clock mounted on the steering column. Why have a clock so up front and center? My first thought was to gauge time over target for fuel consumption purposes, but since there are fuel gauges, wouldn't a clock on a side panel or main overhead panel be sufficient?)

(Historical Note: All of those instruments are historically accurate right down to the German labels and metrics. I'm having a dickens of a time trying to figure out the altimeter.)]]> Shywolf DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Fri, 11 May 2012 05:44:14 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?54,197658,197658#msg-197658 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?54,197658,197658#msg-197658 Alphadog1 Weekly Challenge (host e-griff)Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:54 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197622,197622#msg-197622 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197622,197622#msg-197622
[www.dailymail.co.uk]]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Mon, 14 May 2012 20:04:33 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197616,197616#msg-197616 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197616,197616#msg-197616I'm back to work this morning after my two days off and catch up with the gossip. Ooh, apparently one of the Outer Isles regulars had flown in yesterday and discovered that her shared car had been stolen along with the keys she'd left in the office and that the police are well into an investigation and the insurance company notified. Strange, I thought, car theft is very rare in Shetland. Then I'm told that said vehicle was... a silver Kia.
Oh, *~%@
Lots of phone calls are made, none of the hire companies know anything about any Dutchmen or silver Kias being delivered to Tingwall or the main airport at Sumburgh. The police come out and take a statement from me (no blame attached) and try to get some clues as to where the Dutchmen have gone. Touring and painting is all I can tell them, other than their descriptions. It's a genuine mistake on their (and my) part but what I can't work out (after hearing this from someone familiar with said vehicle) is: why they didn't mention about the low fuel level, why the interior of it was grubby and why there was stuff like animal feed and Wellington boots etc in the boot. And where the %*@# is the real hire car?
These guys are going to get quite a surprise when the police eventually manage to find the car with ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition). They'll sure have a tale to tell when they get home. And I'm never going to live it down, going by today's screams of laughter. :(]]> expat DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:40 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?98,197593,197593#msg-197593 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?98,197593,197593#msg-197593
[www.easystreetprompts.com]

To be posted up for Friday 25 May.]]> bluepootle Workshop Challenges/Writing ExercisesTue, 15 May 2012 14:46:22 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?47,197573,197573#msg-197573 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?47,197573,197573#msg-197573When The Carnival Is Over.]]> expat U(KA)Tube (hosts Expat and Shackleton)Tue, 08 May 2012 10:13:57 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197569,197569#msg-197569 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197569,197569#msg-197569this made me laugh --> [www.dailymail.co.uk]]]> Andrea DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Tue, 08 May 2012 21:16:55 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197561,197561#msg-197561 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197561,197561#msg-197561"Windows frozen. What do I do?"
He texts back: "Use a bucket of warm water."
Two minutes later, the wife sends another message: "The computer's completely f***** now!"

My racing snail started losing lots of competitions so I thought I'd remove its shell to save weight and help the aerodynamics. Didn't work - just made him more sluggish.

Paddy found a sandwich with two wires sticking out of it. He phoned the police and said: "Bejesas I've just found a sandwich dat looks like a bomb."
The operator said, "Is it tickin?"
Paddy says: "No I tink it's beef."

Bloke at the Grand National whispers to Paddy: "Do you want the winner of the next race?"
"No tanks," says Paddy, "I've only got a small garden."

I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.

I met a prostitute in a bar the other day. She told me she would do anything I wanted for £25. Damn-right she did - my house is spotless now.

A man and a woman are having a romantic evening at a swish restaurant when suddenly the guy gasps, goes white and disappears under the table. The woman calmly continues drinking her wine. The waitress taps her on the shoulder and says:
"Excuse me, madame, your husband's just slid to the floor."
"No he hasn't," said the woman, "he's just walked through the door."]]> expat DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Sun, 13 May 2012 08:53:50 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197558,197558#msg-197558 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?1,197558,197558#msg-197558www.dailymail.co.uk]

Maybe just a conspiracy theory. I mean, who would believe that they would micro-wave baby's bodies, grind them down and make them into pills?
That is, after in some cases, being taken from their mothers, healthy, to 'dying rooms', so as to keep with government regulations?
Must be those damned conspiracy theorists again.]]> stormwolf DISCUSS ANYTHING (GENERAL DISCUSSION)Wed, 16 May 2012 07:20:12 +0100 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?47,197537,197537#msg-197537 http://ukauthors.com/phorum5/read.php?47,197537,197537#msg-197537God Save The Queen.

The Sex Pistols - a tsunami of raw musical aggression that barged the silver-caped, moon-booted, overblown prog-rockers of the mid-seventies right out of their snug 24-track cocoon with pretentious album titles like Warriors at The Portals of Aldebaran and The Last Feast of the King of Zacynthus.

Never Mind The Bollocks... Yay! ]]> expat U(KA)Tube (hosts Expat and Shackleton)Mon, 07 May 2012 11:13:16 +0100