Monthly Archives: September 2016

My Bedroom In The Good Old Days

Posted on September 29, 2016 by odeboyz

God knows how many times the old bedstead I slept in, as a child, was handed down. It was a  1940s double bed with a wooden headboard with slatted vertical boards and had three carved holes in the shape of hearts over … Continue reading →

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A Billionaire conversation

Posted on September 27, 2016 by odeboyz

(Warren Buffet and Bill Gates walking in Santa Monica, California) Warren Hey look over there. That’s a Ferrari showroom. Bill Let’s go and buy one. Warren OK. I’ll get the red one and yours is silver grey. Right? Bill It’s … Continue reading →

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Result!

Posted on September 26, 2016 by odeboyz

With the result of the Corbyn / Smith election The membership’s – unequivocal rejection of Smith It should also tell the Parliamentary Labour MPs, Ordinary members, don’t like their attitude. I wouldn’t be as magnanimous as Jeremy Who it seems, … Continue reading →

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Prisons Aren’t Care Homes

Posted on September 23, 2016 by odeboyz

The “creditor” always becomes more humane to the extent that he has grown richer.… It is not unthinkable that a society might attain such a consciousness of power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury possible to it—letting those … Continue reading →

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The delusional George Osborne and the Northern Powerhouse (deceased)

Posted on September 20, 2016 by odeboyz

‘A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from their ways, but not a politician.’ Anthony Trollope Phineas Redux (1873) Chris

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Oscar Wilde: poet

Posted on September 20, 2016 by odeboyz

“As usual I think of Oscar Wilde. It’s the same old story: ‘I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.’” Laurent … Continue reading →

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The Blessed Generation

Posted on September 15, 2016 by odeboyz

When I look back over my life, it is not hard to see why I truly believe I and others of my age group should celebrate that we had enough to eat as children; we weren’t conscripted into the army at eighteen … Continue reading →

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Sound advice from a father during the Warsaw Uprising 1944*

Posted on September 13, 2016 by odeboyz

The Warsaw Uprising museum has numerous videos with survivors recounting their experiences. One video shows a man telling the story of how, when he was fifteen years old, he asked his parents if he could join the uprising. First he … Continue reading →

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Two Yeshiva Jews celebrate a goal

Posted on September 9, 2016 by odeboyz

“it was only when he heard one mutter to the other, ‘I don’t like it Myer- they’ve scored too soon’ and the other reply, ‘I know, I know’; that he understood the significance of their sitting hunched and quiet amid … Continue reading →

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Home-schooling, the National Curriculum and yeshiva schools

Posted on September 9, 2016 by odeboyz

Section 7 Duty of parents to secure education of children of compulsory school age – The parent of every child of compulsory school age shall cause him to receive efficient full-time education suitable— (a) to his age, ability and aptitude, … Continue reading →

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