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Another Alternative to Amazon

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:33:10 +0000

With the threat of our beloved and run-down pub, the Tumbledown Dick, being turned into a McDonald’s restaurant somebody pointed me in the direction of a very interesting book – The McDonaldization of Society. The book, first published in 1993, is written by sociologist George Ritzer and looks at the increasing rationalisation of the world [...]

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Beetroot Books

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Sat, 04 May 2013 08:00:39 +0000

In my quest to find alternatives to Amazon, my latest discovery has been an interesting one. A couple of weekends ago I made a brief trip to Avebury in Wiltshire, a picturesque little English village and home to an impressive neolithic henge monument. Once I was home that same Sunday evening I had a sudden [...]

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Hive: Books Arrived

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:00:44 +0000

As previously posted, I was recently looking for an alternative to Amazon. The thought process came about after I was accused, quite reasonably, of putting money into Amazon’s pockets when there were serious questions to be asked about their ethics and morality. The main points of contention are that: 1) Amazon have been accused of [...]

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Alternatives to Amazon: First Book Order Through the Hive

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:00:10 +0000

A recent conversation on one of the comments sections of the Friends of the Tumble Down Dick website got me thinking: “Are there any alternatives to Amazon?” For many years now I’ve been an Amazon affiliate and earned a few pennies here and there from my web and blog posts. In all honesty, I don’t [...]

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Save the Tumbledown

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:30:40 +0000

At the tail end of this year’s summer time, a mighty oak tree came down beside the Tumbledown Dick pub in Farnborough. It didn’t fall, it was cut down. That Oak tree had stood for hundreds of years and had a healthy, green leafy canopy – It was a pleasant part of the Farnborough Road and, as [...]

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