Some people have said they keep checking this to see what I've been doing as I have been silent (email down; writing book). There's been nothing up but actually that means I've been doing something. Usually, this:

7.30 Get up, either with alarm clock or with next-door's dogs sticking their noses in my face
7.45 Walk dogs
8.15 Have breakfast
9 Work ( ( Read more... )

I'm not religiously observant but if I were, I'd be praying for those monks, Buddha bless them.

India, oh India. The world's largest democracy. The world's best example of pluralist, intercommunal living.
A pinnacle of gourmet sophistication; an ancient civilization; an unparalled centre for serenity-inducing exercise routines.

Or, a country of nutjobs.

Time does fly when one is flying around the country. Like the blue-bottomed variety and actually by using trains not planes and the odd automobile. If I never see routes 85 and 95 again, I'll be happy. For my scheduling abilities, I should be certified, because I decided it was crucial that I drive from DC to near Chapel Hill, North Carolina and ( Read more... )

So I have a frosty relationship with flying, as I have elucidated upon/banged on about many times before. Despite my frosty relationship with flying, I am trying to wean myself off diazepam which I generally knock back on planes. Today I properly weaned, because I forgot it. And today was the day when first, the Charles de Gaulle ground staff ( Read more... )

There is something not quite right in this news:

A 16-year-old boy has died after being struck by a train, police said yesterday. The driver of the 9.13pm London Blackfriars to Sevenoaks train was entering Shoreham station, Kent, at about 20mph on Wednesday night when he saw two youths on the line, British Transport police said. One, a 16-year-old ( Read more... )

From the book Sulabh Sanitation Movement by S. P. Singh, some pithy history:

Nero was a mad Roman emperor who murdered his mother and two wives, castrated his friends, forced Roman aristocratic matrons to have sex with slaves in public and used the burning bodies of Christians to light up the night sky. He even set Rome aflame in AD 64 and sung ( Read more... )

I finished reading yesterday. I started writing. I wrote 2000 words. I will when I get round to reading them again probably dislike most of them but that doesn't matter.
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One of the sanitary reformers of the Victorian age was called Santo Crimp. That's all I have to say.

Foot and mouth disease is back. I'm not sure though that chief vet Debby Reynolds can be trusted, if her mastery of disease control is as good as her English, given that she said this:

"All cattle on this farm will be culled. They will be culled humanely, then they will be disposed of by incineration," said Ms Reynolds. "They won't be burned. There ( Read more... )