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Klong - A Thai canal.

The Problems with Old Etonians - August 31, 2008

Somewhere in Eton College the pupils are taught to cover up each others weaknesses from public scrutiny. This becomes a real danger when you have a great many of them holding major civil service and political positions and this could be the case if David Cameron is elected as the next prime minister. I suspect London will have to pay a quite high price for electing the old Etonian clown Boris
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/problems-with-old-etonians.html

Preston North End 2-1 Charlton Athletic - August 31, 2008

We won this fixture 2-0 last season, but from the few reports I have read today we didn't deserve any points from yesterday's game. Well at least I can expect all 3 points on the next game with the way our results have been so far this season; played 4, won 2, lost 2.
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/preston-north-end-2-1-charlton-athletic.html

Charlton Athletic 4-2 Reading - August 25, 2008

Great result, I looked at the goals this morning (Monday) from a torrent download. Week to week mood swings could be here for the season or has Charlton discovered the midfield mix which will supply the strikers with plenty of chances consistently. Let's hope so. Still it must be boring supporting the Uniteds and Chelseas of the world.
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/charlton-athletic-4-2-reading.html

Shooting Fish in a Barrel - August 17, 2008

Shooting fish in a barrel - there are some thing that are so easy that you don't get many points for doing them, something like pocketing a white ball in billiards. One of these is criticizing Charles Windsor, (aka Charles Philip Arthur George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). So Phil Woolas I'm not going to give you much of score going after Charles, or should I say 'Chuck', to be like Philip James Woolas
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/shooting-fish-in-barrel.html

Watford 1-0 Charlton Athletic - August 17, 2008

Well all the good feelings I had of the coming football season last Sunday took a bit of a beating over the intervening seven days. First on Tuesday was being knocked out of the Carling Cup by Yeovil and then yesterday losing at Watford. I know from the blogs that Charlton fans say we didn't play that badly yesterday and that the officials were 'homers', but having listened to an old (1992)
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/watford-1-0-charlton-athletic.html

Charlton Athletic 2-0 Swansea City - August 10, 2008

Apologies to Swansea supporters as yesterday I tagged your team Swansea Town when of course you are city. I have nothing against Swansea, although many years ago I did use a cellar drinking club one afternoon where they had old bus seats perched on beer kegs to sit on and the beer was in plastic glasses long before the rest of Britain went that way. Still it's Swansea City and you were unlucky to
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/charlton-athletic-2-0-swansea-city.html

Another Season - August 9, 2008

Today there's no politics in this blog. No attacks on Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or their groupies. Not even a curse on New Labour. Why Because today is start of the Football League 2008-2009 season. Swansea are visiting Charlton and it will give us an idea of what sort of team we are following this year. Last season was disappointing with a 11th. place finish when the hope, if not belief, at the
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-season.html

Time to reform the British justice system - August 8, 2008

With no written constitution and laws dating back to the Middle Ages or earlier, it is no surprise that at times the British courts hand out some strange punishments. The rule of law in Britain has always been based on the protection of property. After all the rules were made by landed aristocracy who wanted their property, belongings and serfs protected. In these more modern times I suspect
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-to-reform-british-justice-system.html

Maggie a State Funeral - August 3, 2008

Like the newspapers I'm getting my obituary column ready early. It seems that in government and at the palace there is talk about giving Maggie Thatcher, Hilda to her friends, a state funeral with all the trappings that Churchill got. Now I don't want to throw cold water on that idea but I have a much better one. How about a new national holiday instead. We could have this on the first day of
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/maggie-state-funeral.html

Better Late Than Never - A Windfall Profits Tax - August 2, 2008

This week we had two major oil companies declaring extra high profits, Shell and Exxon. Exxon actually set a record high profit in the US for all industries, not just oil. There had never been a profit result that high before. This blog in March gave the head of Shell, Jeroen van der Veer, the title of "an unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism" first awarded to Tiny Rowland by Edward
http://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/08/better-late-than-never-windfall-profits.html