September 9, 2010 – 6:00 am
……. with apologies to overseas avid readers.
There is a television series starting tonight on BBC2 at 9.00pm.
It’s called Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys.
Gareth Malone, who really doesn’t look that much older than the kids,
is indeed an extraordinary man who believes in the power of communal singing to engage, enliven and unite communities.
He popped up [...]
September 8, 2010 – 6:00 am
When I was just a glint in my father’s eye and a look of fear in my mother’s, to be told to wash your mouth out with soap meant you’d probably just sworn or said something rude.
I guess if you say it now it might have completely different connotations.
[This is one of the Mitchell brothers [...]
September 3, 2010 – 6:00 am
Avid readers might have noticed that I have rarely mentioned my mother-in-law.
There is a simple reason for this. She would need a post as long as War and Peace [and would probably have a similar title].
Anyway she did teach me a couple of things that have been very useful in helping me get through life [...]
September 2, 2010 – 6:00 am
Everyone needs lists …….. otherwise listlessness sets in ……. obviously.
The Top 100.net is all about lists. I’ve put various lists over there: this has been great fun – the people involved have just the right amount of dementedness and are excellent at telling me how to do ‘stuff’ when I got confused. There are serious [...]
August 31, 2010 – 6:00 am
We all know that a lot of life is spent waiting. I had a little Google to see what other people had said …..
I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. – Steven Wright
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared [...]
August 20, 2010 – 6:00 am
There are many advantages to living on a cliff top in an area of outstanding natural beauty and scientific interest. There’s all the wildlife running around, and being able to watch the private aeroplanes and helicopters that fly along using the coast as a navigation aid: always fascinating trying to work out who [...]
August 13, 2010 – 6:00 am
I’ve covered up my caption …….. got any ideas of your own? If anyone gets the exact caption to my marvellous, witty and badly drawn cartoon, they’ll win a DP t-shirt!!!!!!
Have a lovely weekend – may your bottoms fall off on a regular basis.
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Match of the Day
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On Monday some very kind (and some not so kind) avid readers left a few words and phrases for me to weave into a yarn [susurrus, eat my shorts, WWOOF, penitence, don, muliebrity, behemoth, bamboozling, flipper, template, a dog's dinner, Bunburying, going to hell in a handbasket, confabulation, entangled photon pairs, hairball, flavous, close - [...]
Last year I did a thing asking for random words which I worked into a yarn later in the week ……. not knitting yarn!!!
Original post here and the story is here.
Gitwizard has suggested that I do it again as there are some new avid readers around.
I would say I’m game, except I’m afraid someone might [...]
Considering that peabrains will take any and every opportunity to sit down why do they insist on standing up to have a pee?
Answers on a postcard please.
Have a grand weekend and I hope that you’re looking forward to Monday as much as I am.
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Match of the Day
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