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Monday, 8 March 2010

Saturday, March 6/2010

Jane and Bill Curtis at coffee place as well as Maggi, so we thing of Jane's "coffee spot" painting.

One of the commentators on Gordon Brown's testimony before the Chilcot committee of inquiry yesterday: like a group of guinea pigs trying to tackle a brown bear. And, further on the prime ministerial theme, Stephen Harper makes the BBC news - unusual for any Canadian non-sports story. So we're informed that there was a suggestion that the words to "O Canada" be revised and I think that this could be a good thing, as the French words are brilliant but the English are pretty uninspired, not to say mindlessly repetitive. Turns out that's not it though. Harper has suggested that "all thy sons" might be replaced by something gender neutral - and been booed back into 24 Sussex.