I’m Here, or Hereabouts.
Well not exactly. I was there yesterday but then I moved out to the big city, well Great Missenden is a big place compared with the creek.
Today is the day for the comps, it’s the last day and there are only a few HOURS left.
A few observations
Apart from a goodly number from Janus which do not meet our rigorous standards of rhyme, I see only one entry for the pomes right Soutie?
Short stories are also very short this month, so far entries consist of a promise by Araminta.
Photos are a better represented but there is still time to enter before “Last orders please.”
Judging tomorrow early GMT.
Nice weather here.
Happy, darling?
I do like large-scale surveys, don’t you? They are fodder for every kind of evil logic and this one is no exception:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17196110
On the basis of its findings, I’m sure it’s best to be white and retired. Read more…
A conundrum
How stupid have we become?
On Saturday evening we were out with friends supping the brown stuff (or wine for the women), now after a few glasses I had to go and make room for some more of the brown stuff.
Having done my duty and putting my apparatus away I turned to the sink to wash my hands to be greeted by a new tap. One of these automatic single taps, so no touchy to pick up bugs. Above the tap is a sign saying “Warning the water is very hot” actually it wasn’t it was bloody scalding. As I like my skin to be in one piece I did not wash my hands fully. Now next to this damn sign is another sign saying “Now wash your hands”. I tried to but the water is too hot. Read more…
Would legalising drugs help?
Sorry to use a DM link again – and thank you to whoever sorted the Linky thing last time. This depressing UN report, and for once I think a UN report is to be believed, demonstrates to me that drugs should be legalised asap. I realise this may result in deaths from overdoses, but it would improve the current situation.
Old age ain’t for wimps
But it beats dying young! Read more…
Different strokes
Chuck Berry, Leonard Cohen Get First PEN Songwriting Awards
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chuck-berry-leonard-cohen-get-first-pen-songwriting-awards-20120227#ixzz1nf1EMgxB
Or if you prefer… Read more…
Removals – update
Half as tall as the Eiffel Tower, them there monster-mills – coming to a field near me. And move we will - but not to that 1850 place I showed you earlier. Bad vibes. Next, please.
Well here’s the view of the Baltic Sea from our latest target. Pretty nice, we think.
Dagen H (Any resemblance to ice cream is purely coincidental)
While on the subject of films, but otherwise completely unrelated to the Oscars, so excuse me, I went to see the Hollywood version of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, a couple of weeks ago. I suppose at this point I should bow my head and admit to the shame of having read and enjoyed the Millennium Trilogy. Moving swiftly on, I found the film to present an accurate portrayal of the novel with the characters, settings and events, meeting my expectations. However, there was one incident, the details of which I have been trying to recall without success. The story involves a flashback scene to 1965 and a motor accident that occurred on a bridge. What I have been trying to remember is whether the film shows the cars driving on the left or the right. Some of you may remember that until 1967 cars in Sweden drove on the left. What adds a little bit of spice to the story is that Swedish cars were a ‘left hand drive’ as well. It should be fairly easy to spot such an anomaly, so if any of you have seen the film and can recall the moment, perhaps you can put me out my misery and let me know whether the producers got it right.
I am keen to see the Swedish version of the film which I know that some people preferred to the American version, though I suppose it is safe to say, ‘they would wouldn’t they’. I wonder whether they got it right with the bridge scene.
Note: the day on which the Swedes changed sides 3rd September 1967, was known as Dagen H. You can read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Will Meryl do Julia next?
I can’t wait for the announcement that Ms Streep, still bouffant from her Maggie efforts, will accept the challenge presented by Australia’s own iron lady, who has seen off her closest rival in short order. It was understandable that the top 2012 oscar honours went to a silent film, when the alternative was to reward those famously strident tones echoing along Downing Street. But as voices go, Julia’s deserves to be immortalised too – and who better than Meryl to pull it off? A bit of a red rinse and hey presto!
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