From the front page of the Guardian, italics mine:
State funeral planned for Lady Thatcher
- The Guardian,
- Monday July 14, 2008
Lady Thatcher is expected to be granted the rare honour of a state funeral when she dies.
Aw, man! I should always read past the jump before making plans. Now what am I gonna do with all this Champagne?
RIP Olive Riley. You found your way home.
The Unstoppable Olive Riley
Olive Riley, unofficially, but probably, the world’s oldest blogger, died on Saturday at the age of 108.
Olive videoblogged and blogged from her hostel home and recently updated everyone on her move both from her self-hosted site to Blogspot and her move from more independent living to the nursing home in the same building. In her last weeks she complained of a bad cough and distress, but remained in high spirits, giving an impromptu concert for her new roommate and friends.
You can read her last post here. An excerpt:
Penny, who’s in the next bed to mine, had a visit one day this week from her daughter, who’s a professional singer. Guess what happened! She and I sang a happy song, as I do every day, and before long we were joined by several nurses, who sang along too. It was quite a concert!
Olive’s main blog is down at the moment, no doubt due to overuse, but it is located at The Life of Riley, http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/
Longtime raincoaster readers will fondly recall the old search term roundups of yore. That was before nekkid Britney Spears and Hairy Potter blew all other search terms off the list. Alas, these days unless I check my stats page within an hour of the new stats day’s dawn, I’m stuck with a list that looks depressingly like:
Very boring, I think you’ll agree. Today I became uncontrollably excited when I realized I’d actually gotten some links to other things:
| ingrid betancourt | 15 |
| lolgoth | 12 |
| britney spears sex tape | 10 |
| daniel radcliffe | 9 |
| britney sex tape | 9 |
| fairy | 8 |
| beaver shots | 7 |
| the outsiders | 4 |
| steve jobs | 4 |
| fish pedicure |
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, fish pedicure! We have, in fact, two fish pedicure posts, Smells Like a Fish and Getting Oral is Good for You, both of which are self-evidently true.
You may now resume your Britney Spears Sex Tape surfing. Fnord.
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