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Month: Mar 2013

  • Fruit of the gloom

    Does anyone really know the difference between Satsumas, Clementines, Tangerines and Mandarins? Or the Mikan, sometimes imported from Japan or Korea?  Yes please, but they are more expensive. Honey Murcott anyone?  No thanks, or at least not the ones from Bangladesh in Park’n’Shop. For the last couple of years, Park’n’Shop have been importing Spanish satsumas,…

  • Madness

    I wrote about the Championship merry-go-round shortly after Michael Appleton had become Blackburn’s third manager of the season in mid-January.  Now’s he’s become the 32nd manager to be fired this season.  Where would Blackburn be without Venky’s  and their global football adviser, Shebby Singh?  Don’t answer that. It was only a few weeks ago that…

  • Pierce Lam is an idiot

    As pslhk might say, I am too busy to read the SCMP myself, so thanks to Bruce for pointing out that Pierce Lam has hit back: Make better use of subsidy given to ESF Andrew Nunn's reply ("'Educational apartheid' hitting expats", March 1) to my letter ("ESF admission policy smacks of segregation", February 19) is…

  • Pierce Lam vs. ESF (one more time)

    Thanks to James for pointing out that Pierce Lam is still at it. ESF admission policy smacks of segregation The English Schools Foundation’s intended change of its admission system is procedural and not substantive. ("ESF to end admission priority for non-Chinese speakers", February 5). Its current admission system is designed to favour "children who do…

  • Not so baffling

    Big headline on the front page of the ‘City’ section of the South China Morning Post today, but it turns out to be the usual load of nonsense: Pictures baffle Dragonair workers Three mysterious branding-type photos are raising questions on whether the airline is moving to align its image with parent Cathay Phila Siu and…