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Rosmeen

October 7, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

‘Rosebud’ was an enigma: the dying word of Citizen Kane, finally explained at the end of the film. Similarly, there was a Rosmeen question that came to be resolved shortly before our father died. As Orson Welles wrote in 1975, denying that his Kane character was modelled on media tycoon Randolph Hearst ‘There are parallels, but these can be just as misleading as comparisons.’

mush ... goddamit!
Cartoon by Regis (aka Frank Robinson)
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: aging, architects, cartoon, david eagleman, jlr, neuroscience, orson welles, photos, regis, war

Remodelling tax

March 16, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

16 Mar 2020 – 15:25 GMT – 10°C Mostly Cloudy – Co. Dublin, Ireland

A little vent is long overdue. I’ll try to avoid it becoming a rant. My irritants include a boiler, a grant and trust.

But let’s digress immediately. Why would an electrician wire electrical sockets in one room to two different breakers? In a domestic house, semi-detached and quite small. And why would each of those breakers also be wired to sockets in other rooms, one even on a higher floor? Of course, the house was wired with earthing as it should have been. Just one detail was overlooked, there was no connection to an earth rod.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: BER, carbon emissions, cartoon, electrician, glazer, grant, plumber, rant, regis

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