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Assistance in time of difficulty. To help in a difficult situation.

Of, relating to, or appearing in summer. Also: estival

One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.

Having no set plan; haphazard or random. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.

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Tafiti
Experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Requires Silverlight running on your machine.
On Firefox 3 and microformats [...]

A descendant or heir.

Marked by aphorisms; aphoristic: gnomic verse; a gnomic style.

Having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner. See synonyms at gracious. Conducive to life, growth, or comfort; mild.

Intended to delay. Tending to postpone or delay.

Characterized by steady attention and effort: assiduous, diligent, industrious, studious.

Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser. Not giving in to persuasion; intractable.

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Broken glasses with sticky tape, originally uploaded by bitful.

I broke my spectacles one week before going on holiday.
I was due my annual checkup anyway, so I went to have my eyes tested - for [...]

Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.

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Met Office: London: forecast
The Met Office - The latest UK and international weather forecast. Global weather services for business and the public. UK weather warnings.
Tesco and Asda in email inquiry
The Competition Commission has ordered two UK supermarket giants to hand [...]

A spool or reel that holds thread or yarn for spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, or making lace.

About one year ago Dr B. felt like making curry. He seldom cooks, so I welcomed the idea with enthusiasm and sent him off to the market.
He came back with two kilos of brown Basmati rice, made two curries in a week with some of it, then left me to go through the rest when [...]

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The contents of our fridge, originally uploaded by bitful.

I am considering buying a new compact digital camera for a forthcoming trip, and was not too impressed with anything that's on the market at the [...]

Bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind. An appearance or aspect.

Pale Male (the Fifth Avenue hawk) is known to have sired 26 chicks with four mates. It is not the only hawk in Central Park, and they mostly prefer nesting on buildings (the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Trump Park hotel, a residential housing cooperative at 927 Fifth Avenue) rather than on trees.
UK [...]

Easily bent; supple. Having the ability to move with ease; limber.

Mottled or spotted marking, as on a horse's coat. To mark or mottle with spots.

I was searching for info on how to dump entries into a database via a csv file (or something like that), and Google's autocomplete revealed that the world is a sad, sad place.

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The inner lining of the fourth stomach of calves and other young ruminants. A dried extract made from the stomach lining of a ruminant, used in cheesemaking to curdle milk.

A chisel with a rounded, troughlike blade. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel. To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge. To thrust one's thumb into someone's eye.

Last night we went to see David Hoyle's 'Magazine' at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. I'd declined an invite the previous week, and I had to see why so many people are raving about the artist formerly known as the Divine David.
Well yes, he's smart. And very eloquent, which for once is a very welcome change [...]

(Heraldry) an ordinary in the shape of a Saint Andrew's cross, formed by the crossing of a bend and a bend sinister.

This morning at 7.30 I was exactly forty and a half years old.
Which means that that moment on I am closer to being forty-one than I'll ever be to forty again.
Strangely, the thought does not worry me at all. I seem to focus all my worry on how on earth I am going to cope [...]

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Facebook Source Code Leaked
'This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is. If the main source code for a site can be leaked, then it can [...]

Of or having to do with an uncle. Regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance.

There was a time when I used to make this every Thursday night. Then Tesco's Healthy Eating ready meals made my cooking redundant.
The other night I offered to relieve Dr B.'s grumpiness and frustration at not sleeping much because of continuous calls from work (he is on 24-hour support until the end of the weekend) [...]