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Putin sings "Eve of Destruction" at the Luzhniki Stadium It was like halftime at the American Superbowl when the Russian state staged a rally in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Friday. The rally was supposedly intended to celebrate the annexation of Crimea in 2014 but mostly it was connected with the military operation .... war in Ukraine. What better way can there be to mark the killing of children, the destroying of apartment blocks, the bombing of hospitals and the creation of millions of refugees than to wave flags, sing patriotic songs, cheer and generally have a happy time? The star of the show was Vladimir Putin who came on stage in a creamy white polo necked sweater and a blue parka jacket in order to sing his repertoire of cover songs:- "From Russia With Love" - originally sung by Matt Monro "King of the World" - by Jason Robert Brown "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire and "Ba...

 When I was a child fish & Chips were a treat. Sometimes they were bought out of necessity as when for whatever reason my mother was not able to cook  Rarely they were bought as a planned meal But covered in vinegar and smothered in salt, they were always a welcomed change from my mother’s bland cooking. On impulse I bought fish and chips for supper last night. It was from the chips and kebab house in the next village, the one that got fined for dreadful hygiene. I remember Boffin Cameron writing ebulliently in the comments of the paper that it wouldn’t stop him going  Funny what you remember eh. Anyhow I haven’t eaten fish and chips for over three and a half years, so I had to buy some vinegar to douse the meal properly It was lovely, with the girls snapping up the fatty bits of batter from my fingers and Albert carefully taking the fish from the window ledge out of reach. from Going Gently https://ift.tt/Vk3OgiY