Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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Location: Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

University graduate, currently working as an Information Assistant for the NHS. Interested in politics, history, sci fi etc.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Music Video Blogging

If you need a break from all that festive madness





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Christmas Day Blogging






George waiting to eat his salmon souffle









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Christmas Day Blogging

The Moroccan Lamb after roasting



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Christmas Day Blogging


Our crackers and table decorations


The Moroccan Roast Lamb before being put in the oven


My brother, the chef, with the marinated and prepared leg of lamb

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Happy Solstice

Stonehenge bones may be evidence of winter solstice feasts

Sheffield University archaeologists believe enigmatic prehistoric monument was used for ritual banquets on special occasions
Some 4,500 years ago, as the solstice sun rose on Stonehenge, it is very likely that a midwinter feast would already have been roasting on the cooking fires.

Experts believe that huge midwinter feasts were held in that period at the site and a startling picture is now emerging of just how far cattle were moved for the banquet. Recent analysis of the cattle and pig bones from the era found in the area suggests the cattle used were walked hundreds of miles to be slaughtered for the solstice celebrations – from the west country or west Wales.

Professor Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield and his team have just won a grant of £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to answer some of the riddles about the enigmatic prehistoric monument.

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christmas Music Blogging







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Christmas Blogging




The tree is finally decorated


Heidi tired out after her mad half an hour


George hugging his mini Christmas cracker as he slumbers

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Wiltshire Winter Landscape

My father goes on walks on a Sunday and took some photos


A frozen canal




In the distance you can see Wansdyke

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi and George






Heidi hugging the electric heater, as the weather has gotten colder

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Christmas Cake Blogging



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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sunday Dance Blogging

An amazing jive from former prima ballerina Darcey Bussell and Strictly Come Dancing's Ian Waite



Her finishes are just sheer class

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Saturday Music Blogging



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Friday, December 11, 2009

Friday Ballet Blogging



Choreography by Mikhail Fokine
Music by Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Leanne Benjamin
Ivan Tsarevich: Jonathan Cope
The Beautiful Tsaverna: Genesia Rosato
The Immortal Kostchei: David Drew

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Friday Cat Blogging




George eyeing a peacock feather




DJ Heidi

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Friday, December 04, 2009

Friday Music Blogging



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Friday Cat Blogging


Heidi and George snuggle up on the zebra bed

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