Everything you own outside a yurt

Living in a yurt means keeping the number of possessions down to a minimum

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I was also wondering about sleeping on a plank in a tent where memory foam may not be the highest priority.

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Podcast Alley, Podcast Directories

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Just claiming my podcast on podcast alley.

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time capsule August September 2010

August 25th to September 8th, 2009 A selection of  most interesting photos from one year ago. The Last Nail - St Monan's Boatyard The Last Nail This is the boatyard and village which is the inspiration for my own recently finished folk song "The Last Nail" Listen to The Last Nail on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ZJ7mlBQC0 The Last Nail Lyrics Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill That's where they built the boatyard, and the structure stands there still. Not much boat building happens now, just repairs and fitting out but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can hear the old boatbulders shout: Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race. Our grandfathers put up the boatyard, to build the fishing fleet, more than fifty boats in the harbour, and shops all down the main street then the steam age brought in the drifters, boat builders became engineers Now the wind blows straight through the boatyard, there'll be no more boat building here Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race. With a keen eye for staying in business, they switched over to build leisure craft And the weekend yachtsmen snapped them up, no expense spared fore or aft Then wooden hulls went out of fashion, the order book emptied last year So the bankers foreclosed on the boatyard, and there'll be no more boatbuilding here Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race. Now the Vikings invented the clinker for both strength and shallow seas and the herring boats followed the coastline, until the canning ships found the key There's a regatta here every August, and the whole village turns out again But the Sea Queen's no real competition, and it's guaranteed to rain Will you pass the last nail over and I'll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race. Above the stone walled harbour, or down the winding hill that's where they built the boatyard, and the skeleton stands there still. No more boat building happens now, not even fitting out but when the wind rattles the boatmasts, you can still hear the old boys shout: Will you pass the last nail over, we'll knock it into place, Then with four more coats of varnish, she'll be ready for the race. Taken August 29, 2009 at 5:50 pm green jumper blue shed green jumper blue shed at St Monans Taken September 3, 2009 at 11:35 pm StMonans-01-09-2009 019 Taken August 31, 2009 at 6:02 pm StMonans-04-09-2009 068 Taken September 7, 2009 at 2:10 pm Kilconquhar Taken September 4, 2009 at 2:08 pm

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VIDEO - Notting Hill Carnival

Notting Hill Carnival is one of teh biggest if not the biggest Festivals in London

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Lots of noise and colour in the streets of Notting Hill during the carnival weekend, August Bank Holiday Monday. I was out of town myself

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Wood-Wrapped Floating House Maximizes Urban Growth | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

This would make a fantastic house boat on the Inland Waterways

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I'm trying to imagine one of these on the River Thames in London.

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Forest Huts

Not exactly yurts, or even approximately, but these forest huts do have a certain nomadic primitive lifestyle atmosphere about them. I would worry about the lack of windows in the longer term, compared to a nice yurt with a wide sky hole, but on the other hand they do seem to have the mildew problem licked if your forest happens to be in the western and rainier part of the country.

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Camping is not at the top of my vacation destination list, but the Kolarbyn eco-logde in Sweden looks pretty amazing. Located in a dense forest by the beautiful Lake Skärsjön, Kolarbyn consists of twelve forest huts equipped with cozy sheep skin rugs and a warm fire place. Even though there is no electricity and you have to cut your own firewood, you can experience primitive living at its finest with local food, breathtaking views and adventurous wildlife tours. And hey, how many people can say they've stayed in a cute forest hut?!

Link - Kolarbyn

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Japan Announces World's First Solar Powered Public Bus | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

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The Solar Powered Bus is really a hybrid diesel electric vehicle, like the Prius, but bigger.

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Argentina_ Worker Controlled Factories

Episode 8 Andy Roberts Plays 3 Beatles Songs

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Episode 8 in the new podcast series is now published. There's one song by Steeleye Span, a couple of Beatles covers off the White Album, a noodling tune on my open tuned guitar, yet another version of Standing By and an unexpurgated rendition of John Lennon's Working Class hero.

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Dodder

Dodder is a parasitic plant that feeds off stinging nettles. Time lapse photography exposes the behaviour well.

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Havering Folk Club News 22nd August

Havering Folk Club News 22nd August 2010   Hi folks,   Peter here again with the Havering Folk Club News.   Last Session: Wednesday 18th August saw another large turnout with 19 floor spots and a total of 40 in attendance. It looked as if we might not get so many at first and I thought we may be able go round twice; however, no sooner had we got started than more started arriving and it became clear that it would be a one-go-each night.   We had several newcomers in the audience this time, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves and we hope they will be along again.   John Clarke did the MCs honours again and after starting things off with a song and a guitar solo he introduced Bernie & Maureen Pilgrim, myself, Smolowik, Helen Tegg, Bert Dady & Keith Petty, Andy Roberts, “Pep” Pepper, Len Reeder, Phil Duffield.   John took the break after Phil and one of our newcomers, Lynette agreed to draw the raffle – and drew her partner Nick’s ticket! A good introduction to the club.   After the break we heard from Dave Worley, Linda Worley, Mike Willmore, Jane Thomson, Tony Thomson, Mick Brown, Kris Pouch, Rosie Varey and Margaret Nicholson. John then finished the evening with another guitar solo. A great finish to a great evening.   Guv’nor Simon: Remember him? Quite a few have remarked that he hasn’t been around for some time now. In fact he has ongoing trouble with his back and is still off work. It seems there are a couple of discs causing the problems and surgery now looks as if it will have to be considered. I’ll keep everyone updated but clearly Simon looks like being at least a medium-term absentee. Naturally we wish him well.   Other Stuff: Jim Coombes, an HFC visitor about three months ago,  is about to start a new folk club in the Loughton area but is unsure what format it should take. I paste his e-mail below:   I really am about to do something to start the club off !   It would be very helpful to know what sort of club you would like to see. There are already several singaround sessions nearby on various days so it would be appropriate to do some things differently. In addition to local singers and guest evenings my personal wish list includes a regular Ukulele session and a regular music session but I don't know how popular they'd be or what format they should take so I would like to hear your opinions as well as any ideas you might have yourself.   So don't be shy !  Please drop me a reply and let me know.   And if you know anyone else who might be interested please pass this on and ask them to send me their contact details.   Expect something to happen this year :-)   All the best   Jim Coombes   If you’re interested in a club in the Loughton area, then do contact Jim and let him know what sort of club you’d like. His e-mail is loughtonfolkclub@googlemail.com   Next Merry Meeting: Wednesday, 25th August is another open session when all are welcome to sing, play or simply listen to some excellent music in a great atmosphere, so: Make it a date – Wednesday at eight!   Cheers – Peter W.   If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, simply reply with the word “Unsubscribe”   Havering Folk Club,  The Golden Lion,  2 High Street,   Romford,  RM1 1HR.   01708 724544                      07860 452623                  haverfolk@yahoo.co.uk                                www.haveringfolkclub.bravehost.com

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Zend

I had trouble with one of the UK based web hosting companies again. I couldn't get into any WordPress dashboards, which meant not being able to update my Andy Roberts podcast site.  The support people needed evidence in order to recreate the problem, and it felt as if the just didn't believe me, telling me to clear the browser cache and all that kind of distraction. I wasn't having that good a day anyway. Then in the end it suddenly started working again. Later they closed the support ticket but I wrote back and asked for an explanation of what had been wrong ad what they did to fix it, this is the reply:

As "Zend Extension Manager" is not work with latest Zend Optimizer, i have downgraded the Zend Optimizer and install Zend Extension Manager on the server.

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Wordr linked from BBC News

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Wordr is pointed up and linked to by the BBC Webscape programme and website.

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New Videos from Andy Roberts music 21 August 2010

New Videos from Andy Roberts Music

• The Last Nail - Andy Roberts boat building folk song
• Wrecked Again - Michael Chapman cover Andy Roberts hfc
• You Can't Say "NO" to that Woman
• Deep River Blues + Nobody Know You When You're Down And Out
• You Can Count On Me | Andy Roberts
• Doing it all alone
• Hesitation Blues - Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 6

Andy Roberts Weekly podcast at http;//andyroberts.me

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The answer to the threat from telephones

New technology - the threat to our information

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Magazine Themes

Well I'm totally fed up with Wordpress Magazine themes now, so I'll be looking to switch over to something nice and simple as the new theme for my main Andy Roberts DARnet blog.







Maybe even just a slight clone of the ubiquitous Twenty Ten

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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 7

Episode 7 of the Andy Roberts Podcast is now up on iTunes



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songlist:

Postcards from Scarborough - Mike Chapman

Shifting Sands – Andy Roberts

Wild World – Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam

The Last Nail – Andy Roberts

I am The Way – Loudon Wainwright

Winter in Andalucia – Andy Roberts

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Andy Roberts Podcast on the PodcastBlaster Podcast Directory

Podcast title Andy Roberts Website URL http://andyroberts.me Description Andy Roberts, songwriter, singer and acoustic guitar player. Download music podcast, live streaming, videos and albums. Updated Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:21:10 +0000 Image

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I suppose it's worth adding the Andy Roberts podcast RSS into a few of the higher profile podcast directories. Maybe some people use these portals for discovering new podcasts to subscribe to. And it's a link. So long as I mention the main site at http://andyroberts.me during the podcast itself from time to time without getting in the way of the music.

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Free Hotel West End Show

Yes, the offer is back on again, a FREE HOTEL when you book certain West End Show deals. All you have to do is first choose your favourite musical or play from those that are on offer. Then makes sure you pick a date which is within the current free hotel offer's range -

The offer applies to bookings made between 26th July to 27th September 2010.

Free Hotel West End Show

The link above refers to an earlier hotel and theatre break, but if you click on through you'll find the current offer is very much on.

Offer excludes Friday evening performances of Dirty Dancing, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Hair and Jersey Boys.

Selected matinee performances are available for All the Fun of the Fair, Blood Brothers, Burn the Floor, Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Dreamboats & Petticoats, Grease, Hair, Sweet Charity, Sister Act & We Will Rock You.

This offer is unavailable on Sister Act is between 10th -31st August.

Read more: http://www.show-and-stay.co.uk/free-hotel-offer/terms-and-conditions.html#ixzz0whlBf8AW

So you've got Billy Elliot, Wicked, Dirty Dancing and many more....

The when you've put your date in chosen the show, the show deals with the free hotel offer should come up first in the search results.

Free Hotel West End Show

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