As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
the rolling-in-money,
the screamingly-funny,
and those who are very well hung.

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(The gradient's against her, but she's on time)

I have stolen
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Television reporter: "Traditionalists will lament the loss of the Queen's head"

I expect the Queen will lament the loss of the Queen's head...

I have very sore hands.

This is because I've cycled about 35-40 miles on my new bike.  Many other parts of me are sore too.

The hands though are sore because of very weird and pointy handlebar grips.  I bought gloves off a very pretty boy* in Halfords in Rickmansworth, where I accidentally ended up.  Rickmansworth is very pretty too.  And has nice ( Read more... )

Do I know anyone who wants to buy tickets to see Madonna on wednesday at Wembley Arena?

(Original owner can't go cos of the war in Lebanon - he lives in Beirut)

Time. I see there's a new development.  Instead of an american time, my comments are now listed as "UTC"
Closer inspection shows this is actually GMT - Greenwich Mean Time. 
UTC presumably stands for Universal Time Calamity.

Is this just another example of americans not liking the connotations of something that already has a name?

Like French Fries?

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Rain!  Lots of rain!

Got soaked coming from bus stop to Co-op (all of fifteen yards).  Everybody very happy though and even the usually austere and aloof manager type fella chatted happily at me.

Then I was accosted by a guy on a bike who said "Yo, filthyfeet, ya no..."

Maybe the rain didn't come soon enough - and he's been permanently affected by the

I am eating something that is allegedly apple streudel.  It seems to be apple cake encased in filo pastry.

And I've run out of coffeee.

We have though booked one hotel and two four trains.

I'm going to Hannover in a fortnight ... not entirely sure why, but decided a holiday was necessary, and needed to go before E starts new job, and there wasn't many places I could go to with airmiles - I haven't been to Hannover and the name sounds good.   Apparently Vienna was full unless you were a business man (I told the secretary I was going ( Read more... )

The lettuce is nice :)
And it's recovered from being nearly deaded by the heat.

And you can wash the red aphids off.

Rioja is nice too.  And it goes well with chocolate.
And cheese.   Cheese is good.