Archive for February, 2012
Happy Birthday Holly! Yes – at 1.42 pm on 24th February, 1994, our daughter Holly was born. And I know I’m going to sound like a doting parent but this actually happened – all the staff on the ward came to look at her because she was so perfect, largely because she’d been born by [ READ MORE ]
I’m starting this post without a thought in my head. Oh, wait! Here’s a thought – I must be a cartoon character because I don’t know how I’m surviving but as long as I don’t start to think about it too much I just keep going. Like the character below, running off a cliff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_physics_WikiWorld.png [ READ MORE ]
It never ceases to amaze me how certain people/businesses/countries/ can go bust and nobody cares, while others keep getting money thrown at them no matter how often they default. It reminds me of the old joke about asking three economists a question and getting four different answers. Or this moment in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’: http://www.yes-minister.com/thatcherscript.htm [ READ MORE ]
Here is another sickeningly blue photo from Mexico where the boat seems to be coming on by leaps and fits: OK while that’s loading endlessly I’ll tell you about something else. Who reads Viz? Viz is an adult comic – not ‘adult’ in the usual slimy sense but – well, that too, but it’s basically [ READ MORE ]
There was a great Dawkins moment on ‘Pick of the week’ yesterday, re-broadcast from ‘Today’ (I think I mentioned this the other day) when he is reduced to stuttering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c6ts0/Pick_of_the_Week_19_02_2012/ it’s about 35 mins 50 secs in. Not that I’m being triumphalist or anything. Perish the thought. Ah! Now that – ‘perish the thought’ – [ READ MORE ]
I feel very bad about this, but I’m all out of outrage: I spent it all in the Thatcher years when it was required almost daily, and then for years after that in campaigning for CND. Campaigning, as anyone knows who has done it, is very hard work, and burnout is common: so it is [ READ MORE ]
That was the title I thought of for this blog post at 4.30 this morning, and now I have no idea why. Perhaps it’ll come to me… Today I have bleached hair which I have combed to stand on end: I look like a Bay City Roller. If I have enough requests I MAY post [ READ MORE ]
It’s perhaps appropriate that I’m late this morning given the theme of this post, which is reversing time. We do this every day on the internet; time is reversed and we travel from the present to the past, endlessly, from ‘just now’ to ‘an hour ago’ to ‘yesterday tea-time’ – or from today to yesterday [ READ MORE ]
I had the most marvellous blog-post for you at 3 this morning – and guess what? Yep, now it’s gone. The best I can do at 8.30 this morning is to tell you about a recent story which I sent off yesterday to Able Muse http://www.ablemuse.com/ which I was quite proud of: it featured an artist who, [ READ MORE ]
It occurred to me this morning that, whereas people used to ask a question which was formed as a question, recently this has changed – particularly in sport – to making a statement with a rising inflexion on the end: ‘So, Brian – Spurs played well this week?’ But now I’ve noticed they’ve even dropped [ READ MORE ]
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