I still think of fish and chips as a cheap, working-class meal but it isn't any longer and hasn't been for ages. We went to what is probably the best fish and chip restaurant in town (at least that's what the proprietor/waitress says it is- and I'm not arguing) and the bill came out at about twice what I'd thought we'd be paying. Still, great meal ( Read more... )

It was Thursday but I kept thinking it was Monday- and I didn't know why. "it's because the builders are back," said Ailz, "so it feels like the start of the working week ( Read more... )

It's the evening of New Year's Day and a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with fireworks pulls up outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas, It begins to give off smoke and then explodes. No damage is done except to the interior of the Tesla and to its driver- who is killed ( Read more... )

2024 ends and 2025 begins in stormy weather....

Jiddu Krishnamurti is being interviewed before a live audience. He is very old, very frail and very distinguished.

"What do you think about the Buddha?" asks the interviewer.

"I don't think about the Buddha," says Krishnamurti.

The audience titters.

"Thought does not exist," says Krishnamurti, "where love is...."

I dreamed I was learning to play polo. I was sitting on my nag- a broken down Rozinante- and one of my teachers punted the ball down to me and I pushed and steered it into the goal- by which time it had turned into a cat that was reluctant to be pushed and steered. Then I dreamed I was in prison. I and my fellow old lags were sitting on metal seats ( Read more... )

"He loves rugger," she said. "In fact he's going to a match today in Twinkleham ( Read more... )

George Harrison wrote "It's Sunshine Life For Me' at the beginning of the 70s and gave it to Ringo but I'd never heard it before- and stumbling upon George's own recording of it yesterday morning raised my spirits no end.

It's a bit country, a bit folk, a bit Irish, a bit sea shanty- and the cheeriest thing ever. 

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We were minding Edna and Miriam's two dogs yesterday.

Two or three minutes before Edna and Miriam drove up to collect them, Molly- the Romanian street dog- started to get excited and jumped up on a chair back to look out the window; she knew they were coming....

Yeah, dogs are telepathic. So are a lot of other animals.

So are human beings