That the rate of hair growth varies in inverse proportion to the time left until the next haircut? One day you look in the bathroom mirror and think, ‘hmm, need to think about getting a haircut.’ Next day you look like Jimi Hendrix on his worst bad hair day.
I’m off to the barber.
This is a story – we learned this on my Chinese course, lo, these many moons ago – it impresses Chinese people no end when you can relate it.
Why does it impress…
Armed forces personnel have set off on a 1,000-mile “March for Honour” to raise £1m for the Royal British Legion.
The Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines teams started from various places in the UK.
Royal Navy team captain, Chief Petty Officer Jan Matthews, said the march honoured those killed in conflict.
The team members, each carrying 40lb of kit, will then head to London’s Royal Albert Hall together in time for Remembrance Day on Thursday.
Each team aims to walk up to 250 miles of the 1,000 miles and will all pass through Wootton Bassett, Wilts, on Tuesday.
…the origin of the verb ‘to jerrymander.’
Founding Father* Governor Eldridge Gerry had an oddly shaped district; someone observed that it looked like a salamander, and it was instantly proclaimed a “Gerrymander.”)
I think that ‘jerrymander’ is the current accepted spelling?
*One who signed the American Declaration of Independence
Where I learned it: Chaos Manor.
Psychologist Maarten Bos, and the ‘scientists’ at Radboud, (where?) University who have announced, to great fanfare, in a paper to be published in the ‘Journal of Consumer Psychology,? (what?) that sleeping on a problem helps to find a solution.
As they note, my Nanna could have told them that – and saved another few pence of taxpayers’ cash.
These were taken from the balcony outside my office, except the little cottage which has appeared ouside my bedroom window as the leaves thin out.
It was a misty morning until the autumn sun burned off the mist.
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A time traveller has been caught on camera in a clip of a cinema news film from the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin film in 1928. or has she?
For my avatar, or Gravatar, if you prefer. Anyhoo, I entered ‘poppy’ into Google Images and this was first up… Continue reading “I was looking for a new Poppy image.”
Ah me, I used to look something like that, back in the BG days 🙂
Boadicea's Chariot 
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