Been five years, but apparently this place is still running...

This post is just a reminder, probably long overdue, that while budgie's squawks, i.e. this place, went into archive status back in 2011, the new blog - budgie's perch - has been open for business since then ( Read more... )

Caddyman has kindly added the rss feed associated with my new blog as a livejournal syndicated feed - budgies_perch.

So if you do want to continue reading my ramblings, and have them show up on your friends' page, just click here.

After nine years, I'm seriously considering retiring this blog. It's been the only blog I've had, but I feel in need of a new start.

I'm leaving the blog here for the moment, and I may return to it, or even cross-post from a new blog, but I need a break from Livejournal, I think.

I need a change.

Something new.

So, while budgie's squawks goes ( Read more... )

Offline for a while.

Not often I'm disgusted by things our governments (local or national) do. Disapprove of, certainly. Protest against, very very occasionally. But to actively be disgusted by? To think that whoever came up with this should not be able to look at themselves in the mirror without being ashamed ( Read more... )

Berated Nite Bulge?

From "Lee Budgie Barnett"

Well...

From Animated Anagrams


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OK, think you know your brain.

Think again.

Be prepared to go "naah... oh, hell, they're right."

Click to view

Told you.

The BBC 'news' piece suggesting that many parents want the return of corporal punishment ends by reporting that the survey asked which celeb would make a good teacher in the opinion of the respondents.

The real answer? Not one of them without decent training, and several years of it.

Teaching's not something you can 'stroll into' and succeed at ( Read more... )

Some friends of mine have Twitter accounts for things their children say, the most frequently posting of which, probably, represent Mitch and Clara Benn's children, @ThingsGretaSays and @StuffAstridSays.

Now my son is far too old for Twitter to have been around when he was a youngster. Instead, parents of my generation had Calvin and Hobbes to do it ( Read more... )

I've recently removed a stack of people on Facebook, not for any "you've offended me" reason, but simply because I'm no longer in regular contact with them, and if I've not been in regular contact with them over the past year or so, it's unlikely I'm going to be going forward.

If there's anyone on here reading this who is also on Facebook, and ( Read more... )