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A cause we can all join!!
Guardian report today:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1744548,00.html
Guardian report today:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1744548,00.html
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Correction!
I don't do mornings well, especially on the 1st April
I don't do mornings well, especially on the 1st April
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Come on, Evelyn; don't be so modest. You had them well and truly fooled into thinking it was a 'him' - and concentrating your activities in an area so far from your home was a nice touch.
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It was the bit about a nice flask of tea and a sit down that gave me away wasn't it?
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
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Actually, I think you can be forgiven for being taken in by that one. It's distinctly believable, particularly when you consider the activities of the animal liberation activists.
Now... let's get back to discussing luvverly Jaffa cakes.
Now... let's get back to discussing luvverly Jaffa cakes.
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Actually I think I may have been partly responsible for the idea - I seem to recall suggesting (jokingly) to a Guardian journalist (not the name on the article...) that we set up a similar organisation and, armed with balaclavas and cricket bats, go and give certain developers a good seeing to...
Not actually sure if the Adam quote is genuine or made up either -it's certainly in his style!
But full marks to the Groan - we've had a very long chuckle.
Not actually sure if the Adam quote is genuine or made up either -it's certainly in his style!
But full marks to the Groan - we've had a very long chuckle.
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Did you see the April Fool in the Telegraph? Story about how the public were being urged to make more use of little-walked footpaths across military ordnance testing ranges. Apparently these are havens of wildlife!
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I missed that one. Thought that it was the story on the front page about red-hot chilli peppers. Then the other half came home with the Times.....
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David - I've found the Telegraph article, and gone into the website at the end of it and - guess what? It really does exist, and it isn't an April Fool.
(Unless, that is, you're doing a double-bluff on us.....)
http://www.access.mod.uk
(Unless, that is, you're doing a double-bluff on us.....)
http://www.access.mod.uk
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The Firing Ranges in Northumberland are open to walkers during the lambing season - I know as we've done it.
Looking for limekilns on the Otterburn Moors in Dec in thick snow one year wasn't a good idea though - there were a couple of loud bangs and wooshes which didn't sound very far away so we retired hastily but with dignity..... after lobbing a few snowballs in the general direction of the aforesaid bangs and wooshes.
Looking for limekilns on the Otterburn Moors in Dec in thick snow one year wasn't a good idea though - there were a couple of loud bangs and wooshes which didn't sound very far away so we retired hastily but with dignity..... after lobbing a few snowballs in the general direction of the aforesaid bangs and wooshes.
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Well, I'm gobsmacked! In that case, it was damn silly of the Telegraph to print the story on April Fool's Day. I wonder how many other people thought it was a joke?
Or maybe THAT's the joke - a double-bluff!!
Or maybe THAT's the joke - a double-bluff!!
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Mind you, there are quite a lot of other articles in the broadsheets of that date that could easily pass for spoofs. These days fact (particularly the political sort) can seem just as daft as fiction.
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Well, as it turns out, the HBLF stuff wasn't a spoof after all - having seen the literature (sent in a brown envelope etc etc) and copies of local press reports and a hit list - I can reveal that it exists!
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Well, there's a turn-up for the books! It really has become impossible to tell fact from fiction these days, hasn't it?
Any chance of a link to their website, Evelyn? (Just out of interest, you understand...)
Any chance of a link to their website, Evelyn? (Just out of interest, you understand...)
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No, they don't seem to have put a website on the stuff they sent in a plain brown envelope to the office of a certain conservation organisation..
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Come on Evelyn, we'll need a bit more clarity here. I know it's hard to tell the difference between a genuine and a spoof article in Grauniad on any day, April Fool's or not but what on earth is going on?
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I googled for HBLF and it came up with "Hungarian Business Leaders Forum".