We actually have a covering (1 or 2 inches) of snow today, and all is chaos. Britain always fails entirely to deal with a snowfall. OK, we don't get one very often, but some contingency planning would help. Anyway, this is pathetic compared to Scandinavia or Russia or the mid-West, so I am going to say no more and remain cuddled under my duvet - ( Read more... )

The last thing I expected at the inauguration was a rendition of 'God Save the Queen', well, the music to it anyway. The music was chosen for the UK National Anthem in a contest, and I know there is at least one other European country that uses it too (one of the really small ones) but I had never heard it in a US context. Where exactly does it fit ( Read more... )

Happy United Nations Day everyone.

I have rechristened myself in UN format - Nils Nils-Igma-Igma

Who is going in for this? We need to be warned Dave.

I realise it must be a bummer to start life as a seed, germinate, grow, struggle towards the sun, flower, attract a sodding bee and eventually produce fruit of your own .... and then be grazed to the ground by some passing git of a gazelle. It might not be too much of a consolation that the pretty tiger stripe shadows you have been casting on the ( Read more... )

Not only did I manage to see the Holman Hunt exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, but my wife and daughter both managed to buy clothes. And I got some Christmas cards and a Christmas present.

Manchester is the place to go for fun , frolics and the Christmas experience. Even in October. In the dry.

Amongst my lj friends and aquaintances there are are talented actors, actresses, writers, composers and camera persons. I can do cunning stunts.

Scene 1 Take 1 - Roll em - Action!!!

Petrol has staggered to less than 1gbp a litre, and you should see the length of the queues. Why do people think that blowing their horn will make them go quicker? Or is there some secret frequency of car horn blowing that actually causes the car in front to crumble into a pile of worthless dust? (Obviously if the car in front is a Ford or a Fiat ( Read more... )

This is what I have lost from my life -

At first so strange to feel so friendly
To say good morning and really mean it
To feel these changes happening in me
But not to notice till I feel it.

When people say Good Morning to me I tend to reply with 'No'. If it is actually afternoon I say 'No on both counts'.

Bah

Humbug.

Now, I am firmly opposed to capital punishment. But, if it were reintroduced, which crimes should carry the death penalty ( Read more... )