Well, clearly at the beginning of the year we would have expected to end the year with Alex and Harvey, instead we have Benny, who is lovely but has an enormous prey drive. You may recall me questioning the utility of Alex's habit of barking at everything furry that he saw. This is obviously pack behaviour to alert the park leader who then has a ( Read more... )

Well, for those who haven't seen this via t__m__i on Facebook, Harvey didn't make it. We took him to Port Meadow but he wasn't really interested in a walk, or anything. We arranged an emergency vet appointment, the vet did some blood tests (they have some sort of machine now that can do some tests) and said that his liver reading was the worst she ( Read more... )

Hmm. Harvey is not a well greyhound. He is slightly over 11 years old but has looked old beyond his years for two or three years. Now he is quite skinny and reluctant to eat. Also he has boaked up water a couple of times over the last few days. He had his check up a few weeks ago, the vet suggested fish so we have got him fish a few times along ( Read more... )

As pointed out on Twitter by abigailb Google Maps seems to have decided a tiny hamlet (which does appear on OpenStreetMap) called Avon is as important as Bath and Bristol ( Read more... )

Notwithstanding ( Read more... )

This track, Chocolate Cake by Crowded House has the 'Singing Rhythm' sampled at about 50 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgU5B2TZIA

Some of you may know that at one point I owned an Optigan organ. I 'inherited' it from Mr cloudhigh (whom God preserve, of Wiltshire and North Oxford) when his parents moved to Wiltshire. It was transported by trailer by the son of one of his parents friends. It sat in the house I grew up in until my Dad moved into a sheltered flat. Then basically ( Read more... )

Think this one was due to go in a 'misc' post but posted the post because I got to this item. Or maybe I mentioned it on Facebook ( Read more... )

"Joni Mitchell later spoke to writer Iain Blair about the recording experience: "I know it sounds ridiculous, but I was literally starving when we did the session 'cause my yoga teacher had sent me to a psychic dietician who, while rubbing her chin and swinging her arm around in a circle, had diagnosed a lot of food allergies. The result was, ( Read more... )

Ode to the dead mouse found mysteriously squashed in the side of the loft hatch.

"How the fuck did you get there?"