Saturday, March 29, 2008
Would you like ice with that?
Sorry about the lack of ice-breaking photographs, majroj. I thought about it but discarded the idea. Because there was snow falling at the time, the camera would just have taken an image of funny white stuff, a bit like the old fashioned television signals. I can post photographs of Sam standing on...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
(Belated) Happy Easter dear Reader
I read an article in the free paper this week – this was before my eyes started watering and etc. The writer informed us that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Can’t you just hear the wolves howling and the ancients foretelling doom and destruction to the...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
My Humiliation Nadir?
Is it when I am beaten twice at pool in the course of one week by 8 games to 2? Not quite. Is it when I am beaten 8 to 2, as I was this morning, by an opponent who is legally blind in one eye? Not quite. Is it when I am beaten by an opponent who is legally blind in one eye, and who two days earlier...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Did you say Snow-Job?
Hi Andy As I was saying when I so rudely interrupted my own meanderings Andy, the storm assaulted us. It didn’t snow – it rained ‘ice-pellets.’ No, it doesn’t mean hail and it doesn’t mean freezing rain. These are distinct ice pellets. With freezing rain, the warmer (in comparison) rain freezes...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Never mind ‘Dick the Shepherd blowing his nail,’
Hi Andy Sorry for the delay in answering, mate, but I’ve been busy doing bugger all. And I bet you were worrying about me all the time you were in Madrid – I don’t think. You sound like you had a wonderful time – for your age! You were asking what was happening medically, temperature and...
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Behind the eight ball?
“What did you say?” I must have misheard. “I said that I didn’t expect you to come back.” Ed, my pool opponent repeated. I’m playing makeup games so that I don’t need to worry about games after tomorrow’s cataract op - (at 7.00 am, for God’s sake! Who’s awake at 7 in the morning?) So far I’ve played...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
The Edgeless World?
Yesterday I woke up to a world without edges; a white wonder world of shimmering intensity. Nothing was identifiable. It had been snowing for 16 hours. Sixteen hours of steadily falling camouflaged death. The previous evening had ended in a 46 mile drive of fear; a white knuckle, Jesus handle...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Yet another tip from johnmacnab
This tip only applies to those readers who live in a colder climate, but it is worth noting. If I can do my bit to…etc, etc, etc. During the month of February in a cold climate, do not decide to head for the billiard hall halfway through a shopping trip. It might so happen that you are asked to take...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Inflating an Ego, or bursting a balloon?
It was in December that separate parts of my social? life overlapped in the locker room at the gym and caused my ego to be inflated. I was putting my outdoor gear on and talking to an acquaintance when an acquaintance from a different layer entered. As I left I bid adieu to both people. The corridor...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Forgetful and Fluffy?
Is she losing it? Why on earth is she poring over her gardening and flower books to identify a flower on February’s page of the calendar? Her remark is an aside, “When you’re out the back, could you check the drier outlet for fluff?” I have no intention of going out the back or the front. I intend...
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