Stanhope - listen to him
Feb 262010
Feb 062010
I done it … and it wasn’t easy. Now the settling in period, when everyone with an axe to grind will use this event as an excuse for a dig. Here’s the link to what I made – largely in my own time and off my own bat, with no brief, no help and precious little time … I’ll get few thanks and heaps of derision … and no money. But I did it.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk
To paraphrase the mighty Abe Lincoln …
‘You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time’
Jan 262010
They do – you should see ‘em peck! Here’s a picture of both to help you form a mental image of the riveting action just outside the window!
Jan 202010
Once again – visit this woman’s website for your own good and listen to the music. If it does not touch you then hire a rubber room and hide yourself away … http://www.savinayannatou.com/eng/index.php
Jan 192010
As we understand it, Tuvok must have first seen the light of day in 1996, and turned up at Cat Call, run by the estimable Julie Child, in 1997, the year that Sybilla and I were married and purchased our first house together. He was one of two cats along with Neelix, a huge tabby ball of fur and fire, that we took home. Neelix made the young Tuvok’s life a misery for the two weeks or so that we could bear it – they did NOT get on – until Neelix was thankfully rehomed on a big farm outside the town and Tuvok became ‘the one’, putting on weight, fur and attitude at an alarming rate to become one of the most handsome cats we’d ever come across. He loved the house and the choice of beds and exploited them fully.
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Jan 192010
We’re surrounded by these little fellows outside the window, pecking and fluttering … nice!
Jan 192010
<rant>Death is a terrifying full stop. We get one go round on a planet which may be the only inhabited world in this part of space (although I doubt it) and what does mankind, the so-called dominant species spend most of its time doing? You got it – fighting, f**king other people over, being unimaginably cruel to anyone or anything within reach, accruing as much wealth in money and objects as we can only to what? Die … and when the earth is a cinder in a decaying orbit around a dead star, we won’t be out there as an enlightened race of intergalactic travellers, we’ll have argued up to the last minute about oil, land, money and being shown the right amount of ‘respect’, whatever the hell that means.
There are times when, if there had been a paper to sign with ‘Please choose your preferred species’ at the point of birth, I would have ticked ANYTHING except ‘Human’. One planet, maybe the only one planet – and just look at what we’re doing … </rant>
Jan 142010
Another good soul man gone. Fare thee well Teddy, the band upstairs can always use a great singer
Jan 052010
