January can be rather dreary here in the UK, but we have had some lovely skies. Here are some photos to cheer you up – in case you need cheering up.
On Tuesday after work as I drove home (I had finished in good time) the sky was fantastic, and I decided to go down to the canal to take some shots, but arrived after the main colours had faded – too late really… but I like this one
On the canal Continue reading “A little sunshine”
It’s a catwalk for winter fashions in Rio, so says the Beeb.
Trevor Noah appeared on the NBC hit ‘Tonight show with Jay Lenno’ this past weekend. He’s the first South African comedian to guest on the show and by all accounts was very well received.
His 6 minute routine was littered with racial overtones for which he’s received a fair bit of criticism, lines such as ‘America has the credit rating of a black man’ and his poking fun of the ‘Afro’ part of the ‘Afro-American’ term just 2 examples.
He then exaggerates life and difficulties as a coloured person during his younger years, most if not all the laws and practices which he refers to were abolished long before he was born, but the American audience lapped it up and gave him a standing ovation.
I can only find the first 3 minutes of his routine for you, the full 6 minutes is available on the NBC tonight show page here.
Back to where it all began, with a sonnet. Â Â Any rhyming scheme you like, but it must be 14 lines of iambic pentameters (with conventionally acceptable variants).
Subject – Waterstone’s or Waterstones.
Deadline – Sunday 29th January, midnight GMT.
Need I say more?
They were all good, there really is an abundance of talent on this site (sometimes it does take a little drawing out).
To use a quote from Janus, I am kind of “rumpty-tumpty” poet myself (if I am any poet at all and I make no claim). As result I do like a rhyme in my pomes and I was drawn to Ara’s late entry and Janus’s masterful compilation of place names for that reason, but for staying with the theme and evoking the kind of perplexity that only a new beginning can do, I must award the “Poisoned Chalice” this round to Bearsy. Well done, that Bear.
What is the difference between H2S and HS2?
For those of you who may not be aware, H2S is the formula of hydrogen sulphide, or rotten eggs gas, which is actually more poisonous than hydrogen cyanide, but less dangerous as it is so easy to detect it by smell. Mind you, once you have stopped smelling it, it is either because it has gone away, or is so concentrated that it has destroyed the olfactory cells in your nose!
HS2 is the planned high speed rail folly planned by the UK government that will a) cost a fortune, b) ruin a lot of countryside, c) need to be heavily subsidised by other rail routes and/or taxpayers d) take a WHOLE 35 minutes off a train trip from London to Birmingham. It is not even planned for it to go to any airport or meet up with HS1, the high speed rail link from London to the Channel Tunnel.
Continue reading “What’s the difference?”
I see that medical experts and the gov are saying we must have 2 free days of alcohol (where do I get my shot for free?) and we must cut down on saturated fats as found in butter, olive oil etc. and we will then be healthier.
Now I am also told that a Mediterranean diet as eaten in Italy and Greece is the healthiest in the world, having been raised by a Greek mother and spent a lot of my childhood in Greece we were raised on rough red wine, retsina and olive oil?
Hence I am confused.
Besides which if we all die young from a bad diet then the problem with pensions and elderly care is diminished, or is this why they want us to eat butter substitutes full of chemicals?
A blonde was mowing the lawn in her garden and accidentally cut off the tail of her cat which was hiding in the grass.
She rushed her cat, along with the tail, over to Tesco!
Why Tesco??
HELLOOOOOOOOO!
Tesco is the largest re-tailer in the UK !!!
Boadicea's Chariot 
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