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In New France.

Last week I went to Québec for a brief holiday; to be more precise, Montréal and la Ville de Québec. Other than a few difficulties in Minneapolis and at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport the flight to Canada went well. Not wishing to fly with a domestic carrier, US carriers make flying British Airways seem like a journey on a luxury spa, I spent a few extra quid to fly Air Canada. It was not an unpleasant experience. The first flight, from Minneapolis to Toronto, was 2/3 full. The air hostess was a comely young Québécoise with an odd accent. A native speaker of French to be sure, but her trilling of “r” was a bit unusual. Service was polite and efficient. Nothing spectacular, but drinks were provided. Continue reading “In New France.”

Piccie Comp

And breathe! Sorry for the delay, but I’ve had a week like you would not believe, the details with which I shall not disturb cherished colleagues.

Anyhoo, it rests with me to set the next piccie comp and, after JM’s ‘memorial’ topic, I have chosen the subject of ‘favourite thing(s)’. Get those cameras snapping and get the results posted by midnight Zulu on 31st March.

Good luck!

A Diatribe On Errors in Jabberwocky!

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll is responsible for a grave error, they weren’t ‘toves’. They were ‘tofus’

This lamentable lexicography has permitted the ongoing perpetration of an unimaginable horror in the borogroves of Seattle. (For those of you lacking in the intrepid exploring gene, they are similar to mangrove swamps but MUCH nastier.)

Officious, officiating officials sent forth by the Imps of ‘elf and safety’ have seized some wretched Oriental female in her den and accused her of the cardinal crime of butchering tofus stolen from the borogroves. To boot, her heinous crimes are worse. She is accused of mistreating them in their death throws! Heating them as they die, prolonging their throes, shipping their still quivering bodies in warm death carts for human consumption and allowing their poor tortured bodies to be set upon by vermin, (four and six legged, we will come to the two legged in due course!). Continue reading “A Diatribe On Errors in Jabberwocky!”

Habemus Papam . . .

Well the new guy in Rome must be OK as he is going down like a lead balloon with the Grauniad! They have lost no time at all hitching him to the Junta, how utterly predictable.

I can imagine his reception will be lukewarm in the UK all round with the Falklands scenario too, or the Malvinas as he would have it.

Interesting, the first Jesuit ever, so aesthetic personally, intellectually and doctrinally right wing and socially left wing. A curious mixture. So that will shake the roots of the queer cabal running the Vatican, wonder if that is one of the reasons they gave it to him quite so fast? Only two days to give it to a New World Jesuit? Strikes me they wanted that job off their hands PDQ!

From what I have read, as a person, he really does remind me of Chavez (the dead Venezuelan), if that is so, that will set the cat amongst the pigeons to see personal austerity at the Vatican and the curtailment of perks for Cardinals and big wigs.

I wish him well, he has a hard row to hoe to clean out such extensive Augean stables!

Laptop thief

Hee hee, I just love this picture which was on the front page of my daily read yesterday 🙂

The low life handcuffed to the guard rail was racing away from his victim when he lost control of his car. It flipped 3 times in the air and then rolled a further 3 times before stopping, that’s the car in the background. Our cops apparently dragged him out, attached him to the guardrail before allowing medics near him. (News report here)