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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Paradox
I am fighting off wasps. And yet I rescue them out of the tumbler when they fall into my soft drink.
Snapshot: Saturday July 26 ’08
Saturday. Barack Obama is in London. BBC News is showing the door to Number Ten and is building up the tension. The channel has two experts commenting (one qualifies by being American, the other by being a UK blogger) and … Continue reading
And I Am Sunburnt
Lo! It is summer and I feel like reading Billy Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. I was an impressionable young lass when Branagh’s adaptation hit the big screen and since then the play has always seemed like the epitome of … Continue reading
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Tortoiseshell Butterfly
And thirty seconds later, it dropped down dead and was devoured by a hungry spider. Ah, nature.
I Thought Turkey Was The In-Flight Meal
A family who were bound for a week’s holiday in Lanzarote are back home after a check-in desk mix-up meant they caught a flight to Turkey instead. (..) Mr Coray said they had not realised their mistake because their boarding … Continue reading
Future Plans Unveiled. No World Domination. Yet.
One of these days I’m going to knuckle down, find the copy of WordPress for Dummies that Auntie M. gave me for Christmas*, recover the password for my webhost and do another installation of WP on the second SQL server. … Continue reading
Your Presence Is Kindly Requested..
Today has not been the best of days for various reasons but one thing does amuse me: David and I are on the guest list to an exclusive event at the Scottish Parliament. My life sometimes surprises even me.
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Tagged amusing, cake, meeting famous people, politics, scottish identity
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A Visual Feast
The art and architecture of Le Corbusier. It’s interesting to note how the architecture in the third image matches our expectation of ‘modern’ but not the furniture and the art pieces.. I’m also rather enamoured by the sixth image (that … Continue reading
Making Conversation
Work: “Hi! How are you? Hope you’re feeling better. Just to let you know, we’re implementing some new anti-fraud measurements. So, HR needs to know where you were working between October 2006 and February 2007?” Me: “Er, I was working … Continue reading
Mind-Reader
And two hours after having written about wanting one, my partner brings home a 1950s sewing machine. We need to buy needles and some spools, but otherwise it appears to be in top condition. Ace.
