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1. At 02:42 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Big Sister wrote:

   My word, a postcard from Aberyswyth - It's never looked anything like that when I've visited (think sea mists, sad faces)

   - Miami doesn't look any better, and I've never fancied the climate there.

   So, my vote goes to the rare survival of a 19th century Scots Presbyterian kirk in its most austere form.

   Quite unlike our least austere Scot.

2. At 03:14 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Prof.S. R. Pedant wrote:

   Numero uno must be from:
   Roberto Carlos Alvarez-Galloso, CPUR.
   No sign of any austerity there.

   
   

3. At 03:28 PM on 10 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

   My very same thought Prof. Brother!

4. At 03:32 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

   Love the Aberystwyth card -- but what is the Seagull 'to the right side of the one which is top left' carrying ?? And that women in Yellow who resembles the Statue of Liberty !

5. At 03:48 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

   Jonnie, the seagull to which you refer has clearly just stolen a bag of sandwiches from the woman in yellow checks. Her companion is attempting to catch the whole thing on camera. You may think she looks too happy for this to be the case, but, I assure you, yellow checks can be very unforgiving - she is pleased to not have to eat the sandwiches, as they would be bad for the figure. (They were made by the companion, and she'd been going to have some just to be polite).

   All quite simple really :)

6. At 03:56 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

   Girls and boys,

   I've just receivd this as part of an internal update from the Prime Minister's Political Secretary (don't ask), and thought you might be interested:

   "DEATH PENALTY
   Today is the World day against the death penalty. Labour’s Ian McCartney, Minister with responsibility for Human Rights, said: "We reiterate our principled opposition to the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. We call upon all states to abolish the death penalty for all crimes and forever.

   We should recognise the achievements that have been made over the last year. We congratulate two further countries, Mexico and the Philippines, that have joined the growing list of abolitionist states, and welcome progress in a number of other countries.

   Together with our EU partners we will continue to work towards universal abolition."

   Really, really pleased about this stand. Hope you agree.

   
   

7. At 04:04 PM on 10 Oct 2006, F.T. Fong, Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia wrote:

   Ah, I was a student in Aber in the 1970s. I came to Aber from a small town in Jitra, Kedah Malaysia. What I miss is Nevadd Cwrt Mawr, climbing Constitution Hill. Oh yes... Aber and her people are still on my mind. They always will be. "Cymru am byth".

8. At 04:08 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

   It's all so obvious now you've explained it, Appy!

   Mind you, I have to question EMs' technical skills now... He managed to cut part of the letter A off!

9. At 04:09 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

   Appy (6): That's good to hear. Thanks for posting that. (I'm still curious as to why you get memos from the PMs' PS, though :) )

10. At 04:10 PM on 10 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Hmm, definitely a possible scenario App, but I rather think the seagull is doing an express delivery of a recently donated heart (they hadn't heard of dry ice and hygiene etc in those days).Yellow check woman is a Red Herring, it's the Woman in White, to whom the seagull is homing. W in W is obviously the nurse who will leap on her bike (mercifully out of picture,it's one of those embarrassing three-wheeler efforts) and hotwheel it to the Cottage Hospital.

    TaDa!

11. At 04:13 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Captain Square wrote:

    Aperitif (6)

    Do you think Saddam Hussein should start to begin feeling relieved?

12. At 04:22 PM on 10 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Interestingly, it's also Mental Health Day, any connection?
    Aren't there enough days in the year to go around?

13. At 04:41 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Appy,
    Fine and well to abolish the death penalty, so long as nobody rules out

    xx
    ed

    
    

14. At 05:23 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Fearless, I'd love to say it was because I have cameras in other places than your kitchen... but it's not nearly so interesting as that.

    Captain, Sadam Hussein is really not my concern. It is those ordinary people across the world who have been sentenced to death for things they didn't do/things they did do in desperation/ things they did do that in no way justify such a response/etc. that concern me. The death sentence is neither a deterrent nor a human solution to any problem. Raising high profile, atypical examples just obfuscates the main issue.

    Ed, your link just takes me to an error page - any tips on actually getting to see it? (Is it anything to do with Star Trek?)

    Is anyone else sick of Anne Diamond advertising her website? (Liked Eddie's comment at the end of that piece, just as I was typing that - always so cutting yet so subtle...)

15. At 05:29 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Ah, Ed, manged to get the link. I see you refer to bombs. Your point is what? - While there are still bombs we should still have the death penalty? Becasue one problem exists we shouldn't worry about another? OK, I'm being slightly facetious, but I don't believe every positive step should be disregarded because of other negatives. Just keep seeking positives, imho.

16. At 05:35 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Nick Murphy wrote:

    Eddie are you taking pictures of the postcards on a TV monitor? There are what appear to be scan lines on each of them which is really odd...

    I don't mean to ahem piss on your technological bonfire - the pictures just look a tad odd.

17. At 05:37 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Ed, your link just takes me to an error page - any tips on actually getting to see it? (Is it anything to do with Star Trek?)

    Works OK for me. try Mark Fiore
    at
    
    and look for Smarty Bombsalot. Nothing to do with Startrek.

    Pretty political stuff
    xx
    ed
    

18. At 05:41 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Appy,

    Long term opposed to death penalty. Just noting that we're all complicit in our government-sponsored killing, but that it's all done by remote control.

    An accident of growth saved me from being a jet fighter pilot (an inch too tall for flight training), napalming Vietnamese villages. The Gods look after the foolish at times.

    Peace and love
    ed

19. At 06:03 PM on 10 Oct 2006, ontheLedge wrote:

    A surprising show tonight. Alistair Campbell being really quite human - Should we be worried? And Eddie sidesteps the blog.

    See you tomorrow, guys.

20. At 06:26 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Hmm, we're all a bit more serious here today...

    Appy I'm behind you on the Death Penalty issue (not literally physically behind you, but, ach you know what I mean!). It's always been a "fun" topic when I go to the US for work every so often (as well as guns, cuba, world views etc...).

    Ed, I've seen some of Mark Fiores' work before he can be a bit hard to read (as in get an idea of the point he's making) so that may explain why Appy and others may not have picked up on his and your intentions there...
    

21. At 06:46 PM on 10 Oct 2006, wrote:

    Whoevers scanning these needs to turn on de-screening when they scan them.

22. At 06:56 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Frances O wrote:

    FT Fong, I think you mean 'Neuadd'???

23. At 07:26 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Frances O wrote:

    Seems to me that mental health and the abolition of the death penalty go very well together. Sounds pretty healthy mentally to me...

24. At 11:10 PM on 10 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    I quite agree Frances (23).

    I really enjoyed the Alistair Campbell interview. He was forthright without being rude and Eddie's questionning was pitched just right. And he didn't take the criticisms of the media personally - I know they weren't levelled at him but lesser journos would have jumped all over them anyway. I actually agreed with everything AC had to say.

    Ed, glad to hear your height saved you from yourself. Your 18 was striking in it's lack of a link to distrct me btw (apart from your own, obviously, which I've had a peak at before) - you'll be losing your reputation! Have to say though, er, no, I'm not complicit: If we were all to bear responsibility for the behaviour of our governments then it would be legitimate for everyone to be very angry with every American, for example.

    Fearless, what "may explain why Appy and others may not have picked up on his and your intentions there..." is that, initially anyway, I couldn't actually get to the page - I did realise it wasn't Star Trek when I finally got there y'know?...

    Re a thread from last week - I watched a bit of the Mrs Pritchard thing earlier. None of you told me Stephen Mackintosh was in it (swoon etc.)! I'll be tuning in next week if only for that!!

    (Due to excessive use of exclamation marks this frog will terminate immed-

25. At 08:29 AM on 11 Oct 2006, Frances O wrote:

    Gasp - I made a light-hearted remark yesterday about David Cameron and a woman (who I don't know very well) said: "Who's he?"

    Hmmm... is ignorance bliss?

26. At 09:22 AM on 11 Oct 2006, Whisht wrote:

    Frances - I guess one cares about what one thinks is important.

    its a shame (and shameful?) that for some, what laws are passed, how one's taxes are spent, how the less able are cared for.. etc is not important.

    Mind you, yours doesn't sound as infuriatinng as a friend who asked me
    "What did they say his name was?"
    "Ming Campbell"
    "Ming????"
    "Yes, its spelt 'Menzies' but apparently that's how its said"
    "ha ha ha ha!! he he.... ha...... right.. Who's he then?"

27. At 10:49 AM on 11 Oct 2006, Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

    Tony, Dave, Ming, Gordon & Prezza.

    Where's Spitting Image when you need it?

28. At 01:12 PM on 11 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Ap, 24, you've answered mine before I got a chance to ask! You watched JH then?

29. At 01:35 PM on 11 Oct 2006, Ian wrote:

    Nice Aber postcard. The prom webcam doesn't show a similar scene.

    What are the kids in the picture dabbling in? It looks like a pool of melted ice cream? In which case I suggest the kiosk, out of sight behind the observer, has sprung a leak.

30. At 03:28 PM on 11 Oct 2006, John H. wrote:

    I was trying to stay off here today because I need to get some work done, but in another pathetic attempt to distract myself, found myself reading Nick Robinson's blog. It was about trust in politics and Mrs Pritchard. I have to say that I think you get a nicer sort of comment on this site - there, everybody seems to be trying to be clever. And there's definitely the hint of some people trying to be cool by being so cynical. I suspect they all need a dose of PM frog - but I hope they don't find it.

    How quickly we want to keep everything as it is.

31. At 05:37 PM on 11 Oct 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    I did, Valery, and some bits amused me and some bits infuriated me, so I shall tune in again and see where it goes.

32. At 07:30 PM on 11 Oct 2006, Frances O wrote:

    I know, John. This is OUR frog, thank you very much. In fact I'm not sure about beeb bigwigs being allowed in here.

33. At 08:23 PM on 11 Oct 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    I know what you mean Ap, and I did fret, last week, about where they were going to go with it all....
    Still, the good bits are good, and it's food for thought (not desperately intellectual, I'll give you that, but then I'm not either)

34. At 11:03 PM on 06 Dec 2006, Mikee wrote:

    Looks likes the Viking longship arrived in Aberystwyth just in time to stop all that larking about on the beach. Which would explain why the beach has never been so busy since.