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I am abandoning this blog, Saturday 11th January 2014. I now have a more comprehensive wordpress site.
Why not pauseawhile...

Ardley Incinerator just before dawn

Pot Roasted Pheasant

back to JohnJ

A Mistletoe Christmas

Smokey Joe

RT's signal

All we need now is Smokey Joe!

Big Hugs

Wherever you are!

Nelson Mandela RIP

Lee

This is the view, now we need the menu

Gevrey Chambertin

I must have died and gone to heaven. Maybe there is a god!

Westward Ho

Spot the droid

Great Devon break with great company

Prototype Izzy Lights

Spell for banishing respiratory viruses

O ye demons, and all princes and every kind of demon whom your gods cast from heaven on high, I adjure you and order you to obey my command and my precepts. Just as God commanded the Jordan and it stood still and that the children of Israel might walk across without hindrance, so do I command you to obey my precepts day and night, at all hours and moments and be subject to my precepts. Just as the Red Sea obeyed Moses and Aaron when it divided and provided a dry path for the children of Israel, so by invocation of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  I command you to obey me without delay and render the viruses perpetuating my common cold and flu sterile. Banish  them forthwith and protect my special friend from harm.

Sennacherib, king of Assyria (704-681 BC)

Sennacherib, whose name (Sin-ahhe-criba) means 'the god Sin has replaced the brothers', came to the throne of Assyria in 704 BC. The new king shifted the capital from Dur-Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad) to the ancient city of Nineveh, which he rebuilt in unparalleled splendour. This great palace, which Sennacherib describes in his inscriptions as 'without rival', is known today as the South-West Palace. Many rooms were decorated with alabaster wall reliefs.

Sennacherib was mainly preoccupied with trying to resolve the political situation in Babylonia, a region that had only recently been retaken by his father Sargon II. Sennacherib's main opponent was a local leader called Marduk-apla-iddina II (the biblical Merodach-baladan) who was supported by Elam. From 703-689 BC Sennacherib fought to control south Mesopotamia until finally, after a fifteen-month siege, the city of Babylon was captured and sacked. In 701 BC Sennacherib sacked the city of Lachish in Judah but failed to take the capital Jerusalem. His other campaigns in the southern Levant, Anatolia, and in the Syrian desert against the Arabs, were concerned with frontier security. In 681 BC Sennacherib was assassinated by two of his sons while he prayed in a temple. He was succeeded by another son, Esarhaddon.

Dolls House Lights Controller

Full steam ahead

JFK 50th anniversary

It was a Friday then. I was in Hope Street in Liverpool, so sad.

Flu

I have succumbed. I had the flu vaccination one month ago. I know sufficient virology to recognise that it's impossible to get Flu from the vaccination. So why have I got it. Well because the vaccination strain isn't the prevalent one. Just like last year, the NHS at great expense has got it wrong. Look at the mortality figures. The years they get it wrong mortality from Flu goes up. Of course in the state run national cover up service, they do!

Dog free zone