Category: General

Right, all youse out there.  I can’t access the homepage since Boadicea changed the banner, but I need help anyway.

I have been enticed into providing a late and sumptuous lunch on New Year’s Eve.  This is not a problem.  The problem is that the NSW, having  four straight days of leave, has indicated her desire to spend the following day in bed with a box of Belgian chocolates and a litre of my favourite Campo da Gruta white wine, the name of which translates wonderfully as ‘Cave Country’ and is therefore as dear to my heart as Mr. Mackie’s ‘Embra’ ale is to him.   Whether or not my own active participation in this venture is required has yet to be ascertained.

But I digress.  Not only is chocolate and wine involved, but she wants to watch movies too, starting with “Avatar” and I’m supposed to come up with a playlist.  My initial suggestions of 633 Squadron, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, a recorded National Geographic documentary about wolves (Wot!!  Doesn’t everyone??) and the definitive version of the 1966 World Cup campaign was met with that particular look I know does not bode well.

Help!!  Any suggestions from The Third Man or Brief Encounter to whatever is in the cinemas this year would be gratefully received.

OZ

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

The limerick is furtive and mean

You must keep her in close quarantine

Or she sneaks to the slums

And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk and obscene.

Tony Bennett – Love Story

A little while ago someone on MyT wrote in defence of ‘the rule of law’, arguing that the law must be respected even when we disagree with it. The plea was made because of growing disrespect for the courts and the police. Nowhere in the piece did he mention the need for the offices of the law to respect the will of the people. He argued that anarchy was the only alternative to the rule of law. While that may be correct, one must distinguish between the principle and the practice. What should be done when specific laws, or legal interpretations, disregard the will of the people, and themselves threaten to bring anarchy to the streets? What is to be done when the courts release people like the man on the right, the murderer of Schoolmaster Phillip Lawrence, a man whose lawyer told us, had ‘learned his lesson’. His release was ‘contrevorsial’, but the protests were ignored (As usual). Within months, this creature has been rearrested for a violent crime. The rule of law in specifics seems to be flawed.

Now, there’s a challenge!

OZ

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

There was a man from Bengal,
Who went to a Fancy Dress Ball,
He thought he would risk it,
And go as a biscuit,
But the dogs ate him up in the hall.