April 2012
1 post
“Love never had a childhood. Hate grows up too soon”
– Shane Koyczan (Shine)
March 2012
1 post
November 2011
2 posts
How weird
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.” ~Robert Fulghum, True Love
September 2011
2 posts
“Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern...”
– Jonathan Safran Froer, I salute you……http://www.eatinganimals.com/site/book/
May 2011
7 posts
“Facebook now stands as taking over a decade and a half of the dream of the World...”
– Jason Scott
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3086
Downright cruel! →
A lovely way to advertise a camera →
April 2011
1 post
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended...”
January 2011
2 posts
2 tags
In Memory: January 23, 2010
Hard Work
Boys, I’ve listened to your horseshit enough.
You want to know what hard work is, listen up:
I’ve rode a misery whip; carried hod;
Pulled green-chain; broke big rocks into little rocks;
Whupped a hundred miles of picket fence;
Set choker in country so rough
You were doing good if you could crawl downhill.
I’ve fought wildfire; lugged sandbags against floods;
...
Nice idea. Hope it works out. →
Six word stories turned into graphics.
Hours of fun for two people.
I hope it works out well.
Tumblr would approve. It appreciates brevity.
August 2010
2 posts
2 tags
A flood of help
I’ve been wondering how to help the Pakistani Flood situation. Who to donate money to, whether to organise a fundraiser.
Then I read about this amazing man, Malik Riaz Hussain, and I hope it’s true: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100822/FOREIGN/708219908/0/PERSONALFINANCE
What’s particularly good about it is that he is calling upon the richest strata of...
July 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
6 posts
In celebration of this site's first birthday
So much has happened in the last year, dear blog type thing. I don’t even know what you are. I’ve thought of scarecrows and concrete and mud and care homes and Alzheimer’s and bulbs and music and charity and moved countries and experienced the death of a parent and friends have died, and suffered cancer and others had babies, lots of babies, against-all-the-odds babies, IVF...
Amazing. Graphs make life so clear. →
Supergrass to split after 17 years - who knew? →
I didn’t know they were even still together.
Interesting times in South Africa →
March 2010
3 posts
“Every big city newspaper in the US is either in bankruptcy or will be in...”
– Michael Wolff, Rupert Murchdoch’s biographer
“There’s an upside to being economically plagued for decades: When you miss...”
– Nice thought, Mr Reuters business reporter! (And economist, Gary Keith)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62247H20100303
February 2010
6 posts
“There is a certain divinity in taking one’s life, a kind of ultimate...”
Dog poop-related web fame →
““I knew a man once who said, “Death smiles at us all. All a man can...”
January 2010
7 posts
10 Best Whistling Parts in Songs - Spinner →
I can't stop mousing over →
Can't make phone calls without a $150 deposit →
Service is ruined when a new hotel makes it clear you can’t do anything without paying. It’s all about money in the concrete jungle.
December 2009
1 post
I don't like Gerry Robinson →
Rushing to the aid of a dementia sufferer shouting for help will not stop them shouting for help. This programme annoyed me on 1,000 different levels, but raising the issue of dementia care at national level is laudable. Remember the saying, “When you’ve seen one person with dementia, you’ve seen one person with dementia.”
October 2009
2 posts
“Of all the paths you choose in life, make sure some of them are dirt.”
– http://www.actionchallenge.com/images/slogan.gif
September 2009
7 posts
dig deep folks - thanks
Help the village hall! →
Crick Village Hall needs a new roof. Click above to find out more.
IKEA - "dumbed down and overused" - ha! →
Don’t mess with the font fascists
A night out with mum
I took my mum to see Inglourious Basterds. I gave her a quick run-down on the work of Mr. Tarantino, warned her that it may be violent, but she enjoyed it. At least she said she did. I did. And I enjoyed the fact that I can hang out with mum, even when watching a violent film. My mum is cool. She didn’t like Brad Pitt’s accent though. And watched a lot of it with her eyes shut.