I’m quite a fan of this show on TV – he says displaying a touch of plebeianism around the edges of his usual impeccable sense of good taste – so I thought I’d get the t-shirt. (Confirming more than a touch of plebeianism around the ed…)
The nice young man in the boutique stall in Shepherd’s Bush Market sold me this instead…
Continue reading “Sons of Anarchy”
Tomorrow Mrs J will be celebrating another milestone passed, the 30th since we got together, would you believe! So we’re off to Copenhagen to catch up with the city’s architectural progress (Mrs. J’s special interest) by means of a canal tour from Nyhavn. Then dining Indian-style – wot you can’t do down here in the boondocks – before wending our weary way to a comfy hotel in the city. Saturday offers jazz bands playing alfresco along Strøget, the Oxford Street of Copenhagen, which has its annual jazzfest in full swing these days. So we’re hoping the thunder showers won’t be too unkind to us.
Germany the odious. Germany the wealthy leper. The country that is shunned and ridiculed but has the money, the means to support the community. At least that’s what some people think. The way the German government has handled the current euro crisis certainly isn’t helpful, nor is the portrayal of countries such as Spain and Portugal in the German media remotely accurate or correct. Spain is as much a victim of the euro as Germany is a winner. Not that Germany actually wanted it, it was ultimately another one of France’s hare-brained schemes that they have subtly managed to avoid taking blame for. (How, but how, do the French always manage to cause so many problems and escape the blame so consistently? For that matter the Italians as well) Portugal is as much a victim as Spain, but more quiet, smaller, somewhere floating on the edge of the continent.
Where does that leave us? Continue reading “Germany the Odious.”
Long ago and far away on the Dark Side, I wrote a series of blogs about our 2008 summer holiday. It was a trip around the MyT land and personalities of that era . I never found the time to finish it, not being a hasty sort of person. Part 4 was inspired by CO.
Despite my protestations at the time, we were knocked out by the place. Last September, we acquired a hound to celebrate Mrs M’s retirement and this year Dougal, Mrs M and I decided on a dog-friendly holiday. Pembrokeshire leapt to mind immediately and I booked up.
Continue reading “Pembrokeshire Revisited”
I saw this on the Dark Side today. Just about sums up GB 2012:
A vision of the Cameron Navy!
The Royal Navy is proud of its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers. Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless, the Naming Committee has, after intensive pressure from Brussels, renamed them HMS Cautious and HMS Prudence. The next five ships are to be named HMS Empathy, HMS Circumspect, HMS Nervous, HMS Timorous and HMS Apologist.
Continue reading “Wavy Davy’s Navy”
I saw this slogan, or something very like it, on a T shirt recently. It seems to sum up the state of the UK and, possibly, the USA at the moment:-
Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. syn- socialism.
I have just been listening to the 4th and final of the BBC Reith Lectures presented by Niall Ferguson. Despite his conceit and reputation as a media tart, I like Prof Ferguson. I have read a couple of his books, Empire and The Ascent of Money both of which I thoroughly enjoyed. In my view he is a bright man with sound ideas
Ferguson was born in Glasgow and educated at the Glasgow Academy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson
The subject of the Lectures this year was The Rule of Law And Its Enemies http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jms03
I am not sure if you can still find the first 2, but the 3rd and 4th are available and worth listening to, especially the last which is presented up in Edinburgh. Ferguson advocates more individual involvement in all aspects of daily life including social activities and private education, especially education and less government interference. His audience seems to entirely comprise Glaswegian left-wing academics and trades unionists; add to that the BBC’s Sue Lawley and he appears to be in a minority of one. But I find it difficult not to agree with almost everything he says and it leaves me depressed that there are so many who would oppose his views.
Have a listen if you can. I think Mr Mackie in particular would enjoy them.
Manhunt launched for gunman who shot dead policeman
Why on earth would anyone shoot a dead policeman? It may be bad form, but is it even a crime to shoot someone who is already dead?
I just don’t like it.
The poetry comp closes one week today. linkey thingy
There is only one entry so far and that is from Backside. Ethel is not best pleased and is tapping her foot as she was looking forward to reading lots of contributions. Miss the deadline at your peril. You have been warned and I take no responsibility for any subsequent knock on your door.
OZ
Boadicea's Chariot 
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