... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
apropos du nuffinque ...
The mind floats free on Sunday mornings now that Foxy has taken his long walk to the stars.
I wake to read the first forty marvellous pages of Orhan Pamuk's Museum Of Innocence, and am seduced by his smooth talk in to a mental quicksand, up to my eyebrows in other people's complexities.
Then I try to finish a letter to Linda but stumble to a halt over this question ...
How will my grandson understand the difference between a non sequitur and an oxymoron if I am not there ?
Then I discover that I can change the settings on my cheap printer to scan postcards in wonderful detail.
... all this before eight o clock.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
tea for two ... twelve or thirteen sugars, please ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxadblDT6zI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WupsWuMHUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytok8dRGEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXjZu_9KmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYNMKvUyXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAG_Yo8709o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY29KA1BpWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYvUzQrVvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAWlyg44oIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KBIrFvLk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoI_d_gQ62g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9C83jtfOcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4F6gpE0X04
http://tolpuddlemartyr.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/black-basalt-teapot-english-c1800.html#comment-form
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
working dialogue ...
Winston, a sweet natured gentleman from Jamaica who is still
working his night shift when I’m starting my early, too early, morning shift …
who I once glimpsed as a shadow dancing around his car and its sound system in the dark before going
home from his fifty-something hour week of hard labour … tells me how he was
cornered last Sunday evening by a giant colleague with a monologue that had a notoriously predictable course to run …
“you got the complete script then ?”, I asked him, “chapter and verse ?”
And Winston replies … “Yesss sir ! From Genesis to Revelations !” and he roars with
laughter.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
some details from tom denny's windows in tewkesbury abbey
Installed in 2002, the windows mark the nine hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Benedictine monks to Tewkesbury in 1102. Their theme is the Benedictine motto ‘Laborare est Orare’ (to work is to pray).
http://www.tciwh.org.uk/church-activities/tom-denny.pdf
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