In case you missed it, Tarzan's best mate, Cheeta (as opposed to Jane who was just his mate) was 75 last weekend.

Actually I did have a random thought, although I couldn't be arsed checking, but how many Lassies must he have seen off in three-quarters of a century?

Hmmm.....Must works out what a tablespoon actually is in terms of other spoons.

Might have overdone the ould Thai Seven Spices just now. But on the plus side, I don't think I will have trouble with my sinuses for.... well, for ever.

Just a random thought following all the Falklands 25th anniversary stuff on the telly-box recently, but I reckon we should be in for a shipload of anniversary programming this year. Sputnik in October for one, Sgt. Pepper in June, and there's bound to be a Summer of Love retrospective, not to mention a summer of 77 thingy to cheer up slovobooksSure I'm ( Read more... )

I have been lax of late in posting, and I wouldn't expect any real change in that state of affairs for a week or two, but please accept in place of a real post, this link to a story about A new community TV station on broadband for the Outer Hebrides, because I like the headline.

For the day that's in it -and thanks to trinity2003 for this; a woman of good taste if ever there was - why not

piss on a leprechaun?

Well, damn it anyway....

RTÉ Aertel have already beaten me to the obvious tabloid headline for the issue of Harry Potter stamps by the French Postal service:

French Letters to get Potter Stamp.

Need a laugh? Gravity? God sucks, apparently..

It's only because I saw it as a link in the other languages section of a Wikipedia article that I realized that there is a Wikipedia in Scots, or the first encyclopædia in the Scots leid!

I spent a good while tonight trying to get my monitor to work, instead of just displaying a rather psychedelic display of dancing coloured squares ( Read more... )

Failure enfolds me with clammy green arms
Damn the excursions and blast the alarms
For the rest of what’s natural I’ll lay on the ground
Tell me tomorrow if I’m still around

Feel free to continue to the chorus yourselves.