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Nicholas Angel is a very efficient police officer in London. So efficient that he makes his colleagues look bad. He's then promoted sergeant in Sandford, a peaceful village in Gloucestershire. However, a series of “accidents” happen soon after he arrives: two amateur actors are killed in a car accident, a man dies in the gas explosion of his kitchen, the local journalist is killed just before he can make revelations to Angel. But nobody wants to believe they are murders. When the florist is murdered almost in front of him, Angel chases the robed and hooded person who killed her, but doesn't catch him. Angel then starts to investigate, and finds the connection between all the victims: a complex scheme involving the florist's land which would become very valuable when the main road will be reaching it, which would allow the manager of the local supermarket to expand profitably his business. Angel confronts him, but he has a strong alibi. Angel is later attacked in his hotel room by another hooded figure, who happens to be and employee at the supermarket and he then understands that all the members of the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance are involved. The chief of the police, also part of the conspiracy, explains that his wife committed suicide twenty years ago when, after working very hard to earn Sandford the title of “Village of the Year”, a group of travellers came and destroyed her work. Since then, the Alliance has murdered anyone who would tarnish the image of the village. Angel's colleague and friend Danny fakes his death to help him escape. Angel then comes back and with Danny quickly clean the town of the members of the Alliance in a long gunfight. Danny is eventually promoted to sergeant and Angel becomes the new chief of the police.

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After the bombing of their town during World War II, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent by their mother to a safer place in the country side, at a professor's manor. While playing hide-and-seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe in an empty room. The back of the wardrobe opens to Narnia, a parallel world. She meets a faun who at first tries to kidnap her and deliver her to the White Witch, who had taken over Narnia a hundred years ago. But the faun decides to let her go after all. Back into the real world, she notices that no time has passed there. Her brothers and sister at first don't believe her, but one night Edmund follows Lucy as she goes back to Narnia. Edmund meets the White Witch by accident, and she convinces him to bring his brother and sisters to her. The four children return to Narnia together, and find that the faun has been arrested. They then meet a couple of talking beavers who tell them that the White Witch is evil, and that according to the prophecy, they are to become the kings and queens of the four kingdoms and end the Witch's reign. Edmund doesn't want to believe that the Witch is evil and leaves on his own to meet her. He soon realizes that she actually is evil, but it's too late. Meanwhile, the other three children, led by the beavers, are trying to rejoin Aslan's army, who is about the fight the Witch. They eventually reach their goal and discover that Aslan is a large talking lion. Soon after the Witch arrives to parley with Aslan and announce that Edmund being a traitor, he must die on the Stone Table. Aslan manages to exchange his life against Edmund's, and he dies on the Stone Table. But on the next morning he resurrects because the Table wouldn't let anyone die who hasn't committed a fault. The armies of the Witch and the one of Aslan, led by Peter since Aslan is believed to be dead, fight each other, and eventually Aslan's army wins. The four children are crowned kings and queens, and stay in Narnia for fifteen years. One day, they find the way back to the wardrobe by accident and decide to go home. Later, Lucy enters the wardrobe again, but the passage to Narnia is closed. The professor tells her that he had been trying for years to go back, but that they will go back when they least expect to.

“session strengh ale… flowery and fresh, with very well developed hop characteristics”

Smells a bit like oranges. Tastes terrible after eating a piece of Gruyère. Contains malted barley.

Fuller, Smith & Turner, London, England. 3.5% alcohol.

Ingrédients

• 25cL sirop à l'anis (environ 75g sucre/100 mL)
• 30cL eau
• 1g agar-agar

Préparation

Faire bouillir l'eau, y ajouter l'agar, bien mélanger. Ajouter le sirop, mélanger. Laisser refroidir quelques heures au réfrigérateur, passer à la sorbetière.

Commentaires

• J'ai pas assez mélangé l'agar, la préparation a fait des « morceaux », mais après le passage à la sorbetière on ne remarque rien.

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1916. The death of a British officer is faked. The man is then sent to Switzerland, as Richard Ashenden, along with “the General”, a professional assasssin, to kill a German spy. Elsa Carrington, also a British agent, poses as Ashenden's wife. Before Ashenden's arrival, Elsa is already being seduced by Robert Marvin, but nothing happens. Ashenden's first contact is found strangled, and a clue leads to a man named Caypor, whom the General murders during a hike in the mountains. When they learned from their superior that he's the wrong man, Ashenden and Elsa want to resign. But the General accidentally discovers that a chocolate factory is used as a secret post office for German spies. During their visit of the factory, they barely escape the Swiss police, but learn that the spy is actually Marvin. Elsa however, is disappointed by Ashenden's sudden renewed interest in the mission. She decides to leave Marvin to Greece. Ashenden and the General rejoin Elsa at the train station and find out that Marvin is actually leaving to Constantinople. They board the same train, which soon enters Germany. A confrontation takes place in Marvin's compartment while British airplanes attack the train. Elsa doesn't want the General to kill Marvin and interposes hersel just as a bomb derails the train. Marvin and the General get killed, but Ashden and Elsa survive and finally quit the Intelligence Service.

“hoppy flavour and aroma with a citrus bite”

Just another ale. Contains malted barley.

Joseph Holt Limited, Cheetham, Manchester, England. 4.3% alcohol.

I built my own maemo repository to distribute my small and insignificant applications. The APT source is deb http://users.jyu.fi/~mweber/maemo/ fremantle main and the two currently available apps have their own .install files: pointscounter.install and maemo-dict.install.

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Isabel is a witch who wants to live like a normal human. At the same time, Jack, an actor, is hired to play Darrin in a remake of the 1960's sitcom «  Bewitched  ». He meets Isabel by accident and hires her to play the part of Samantha. Jack however wants to be the only star in the show so Isabel's role is reduced to near nothing, which makes Isabel very angry when she finally understands it. Isabel's aunt Clara (very similar to Samantha's aunt Clara) arrives and hexes Jack so that he agrees to everything Isabel says and gives her a more important role. But Isabel feels bad about not telling Jack she's are real witch. When she tells him, he doesn't really understand because of the hex. Isabel then rewinds history until the time she had understood Jack's intentions about her role. She then simply quits. But the producers can't find a replacement for Samantha's role. Jack understands how much a jerk he had been, begs her to take the role again. They fall in love and live happily ever after.