When I was a kid there was an ice-cream store right in the middle of Portsmouth, just by the Guildhall. Portsmouth is a naval town on the extreme south coast of England, parts of which date back to long before Henry VIII started ridding himself of all those wives. The Mary Rose went down in [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Those Were the Days
Posted in childhood memories, Uncategorized on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Discussing the Weather
Posted in humor, Uncategorized, weather on March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The weather here in Canada is unpredictable. It is entirely possible to have winters where the temperature plunges to 40 below zero and summers where the temperature climbs to 40 degrees above. At least that’s here in Ontario. In British Columbia I hear their winter weather is very much like England i.e. rain, fog, rain, [...]
Seconds Anyone?
Posted in food, humor on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I went to Las Vegas with the family. This was the second time we had been to Sin City and the second time we had stayed at Circus Circus which was full of people not so much sinning as eating. Have you seen the size of the buffets in Vegas and [...]
Product Placement
Posted in entertainment, film, advertising, humor on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Have you heard of something called Product Placement? If you haven’t then you obviously don’t go to the movies much. Product placement is all the rage nowadays now that the studio system is run by bean-counters rather than the Sam Goldwyns and Oscar Mayers of the past [who also apparently made wieners]. Movies have always [...]
Food Fads and the SAS
Posted in food, humor, humour on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I hear that members of the SAS will eat anything in order to survive, according to the SAS Handbook and Survival Guide I was thumbing through today. Good thing you’re not a member because if you were you would have to exist for long months in the jungles of Borneo on a diet of dirt, [...]
It’s a Laughing Matter
Posted in humor, humour, Uncategorized on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A sense of humour is a very strange thing. It appears that only we humans possess it. When was the last time, for example, that you witnessed a beetle having a real belly-laugh; or a red winged black-bird having a real knee-slapping moment? Well you couldn’t because birds don’t have knees but that’s another matter [...]
What’s In a Name?
Posted in commentary, observations, humor, humour, pets on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Minnie is the latest edition to our army of animals. She is a small black cocker spaniel – smaller by half than most of her breed because she was once abused, starved and beaten. Seemingly as a consequence of this she can eat non-stop, possibly until she bursts, which is what I hear goldfish do [...]
Dogs and Cynics
Posted in commentary, observations, humor, humour, pets on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dogs are sweet souls. Dogs don’t cheat you, dogs don’t lie to your face, dogs don’t burgle your house and dogs don’t steal your car. Well, I have had dogs who steal my seat and shred my Hullo magazines all over the living room floor but these are minor infractions on the canine criminality scale. [...]
Life, The Universe and Everything
Posted in humor, humour, points to ponder on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was driving up Adelaide the other day, dogs in the back, on the way to the off-leash doggie park and thinking of life, the universe, and everything – as you do. Not in the Douglas Adamsian sense – where the answer – 42 – is clear – but in the sense that haven’t you [...]
Thinking About Art
Posted in art, visual arts, photography, commentary, observations, humor, humour on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The difference between art and ART is a subjective one. Some of us believe that Leonardo da Vinci, or Rembrandt van Rihn, or Vincent van Gogh [it's obviously necessary to have three names to be a great artist], made ART, while others of us believe that Julian Whatsisname who submerged half a goat [mercifully a [...]
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