Friday, December 29, 2006
Lazy
The trouble with long holidays is that they make you lazy. My body-clock is now reset to 'student'.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Huzzah!!!
How pleased am I?
I finally have my canon S3 IS.
It was delivered to my neighbours' house yesterday by Parcelfarce. My neighbours 'forgot' to bring the package round and Parcelfarce didn't leave a card to say where they'd left it.
Now I have it, I have to work out how to use it to it's full potential.
This is one of the first images. Taken from one side of the living of the picture on the wall. Pretty impressive zoom I'll think you'll agree.
Hmm. Can I get up early enough tomorrow so I can take some pictures before work?
I finally have my canon S3 IS.
It was delivered to my neighbours' house yesterday by Parcelfarce. My neighbours 'forgot' to bring the package round and Parcelfarce didn't leave a card to say where they'd left it.
Now I have it, I have to work out how to use it to it's full potential.
This is one of the first images. Taken from one side of the living of the picture on the wall. Pretty impressive zoom I'll think you'll agree.
Hmm. Can I get up early enough tomorrow so I can take some pictures before work?
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Eerie, Indiana. Remembered
"To whom it may concern. If you're reading this document, it means I'm either dead - or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. My name is Marshall Teller. Not long ago I was living in New Jersey just across the river from New York City. It was crowded, polluted, and full of crime. I loved it. But my parents wanted a better life for my sister and me - so we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky clean, you could only find it on TV. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, my new home town *looks* normal enough, but look again. What's wrong with this picture? The American dream come true, right? Wrong. Nobody believes me, but this is the center of weirdness for the entire planet. Eerie, Indiana. My home sweet home. Still don't believe me? You will."
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Eh?
Don't know what's happened to my last post. The picture has turned from C3P0 with extra hardware to a big green rude face! Perhaps I've offended somebody.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Duck!
It's worth noting that Tuesday 14th March 2006 at approx 9.45AM there was a duck on the roof of Cardiff Museum. No photographic evidence of this because it was too far away to get a decent picture.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Red Sky at Night
What exactly is 'Derek's delight'?
Why is he doing a 'Harry Potter'?
Why is he holding a stick of bamboo?
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Sock Monkey Porn
I can't recommend this highly enough. It's hilarious.
If anyone knows the recipe for sock monkeys, can you let me know where to find it. I'm desperate to make some.
If anyone knows the recipe for sock monkeys, can you let me know where to find it. I'm desperate to make some.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Freaks, Weirdos & Desperate Wannabes
It was the auditions for Big Brother 2006 in City Hall today.
I wrote an email to my friends about it.
I made myself smile.
"Got a shot of the BB audition queue this lunchtime. They'd started queuing before 7AM.
I didn't see him, but apparently there was a man in nothing but a hat and a thong. Damn! I miss all the good photo opportunities. There was the girl wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and a Darth Vader helmet (voice-box between her breasts) at Lost Vagueness that I missed. Never mind. I got the badgers that weekend.
I've just realised, if you didn't know me, the last paragraph would sound like the ramblings of a mad woman!"
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Dave by candlelight
Dave by candlelight - Dave looking like a character out of a Dickens story.
This was taken in the local pub, where they put candles on the tables every night, not just when Dave's in.
Originally uploaded by fast eddie 42.
Dave looks so wise. He looks as if he has the answers to anything you could think of asking him.
He's Yoda, Gandalf, Slartibartfast and Dumbledore, all in one Dave-shaped package.
Dave also has his own website
What a guy.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Jake's geeky lament
Roses are #CC0033, Violets are #0033FF....maybe that's why i didn't get any Valentines card this year! =-p
Eavesdropping
Overheard in the Museum Restaurant at lunchtime:
Valley’s lady mid 50’s talking to a young girl who must be here on an exchange (She had a European accent that I couldn’t place).
“Dafydd is the Welsh for David”
“I’ll tell you what my father was like”,
“My teacher in school told me that the Amazon was the longest river in the world. I went home and said ‘In school today, I learnt that the Amazon is the longest river in the world.’ My Dad said ‘No it’s not. It's the Nile. The Nile is the longest river in the world’. I said ‘But Dad, my teacher said it’s the Amazon’ I said, because I would stand up to my dad, my sister wouldn’t, but I would. He said ‘No it’s not. You go back to school and tell your teacher it’s the Nile. The Nile is the longest river in the world”
“I went to my teacher the next day and I told her my Dad said it’s Nile, she said “No it’s not, it’s the Amazon. You can tell your father that it’s the Amazon’. I didn’t tell him again and I always put it as the Amazon in school, like my teacher told me”
“You see, in those days, they didn’t know where the Amazon started and where it finished and there were bits in the middle they hadn’t found. That’s why my Dad said it was the Nile”.
“To his dying day he swore the Nile was the longest river in the world”.
Two gentlemen in expensive pinstripe suits. They were probably solicitors or barristers.
The older of the two (looked in his 60’s), as his friend was putting down the tray with their lunch on, picked up the stainless steel tea-pot and exclaimed in a frightfully posh voice:
“My Lord! I haven’t seen one of those since I was in the S.A.S.”
Valley’s lady mid 50’s talking to a young girl who must be here on an exchange (She had a European accent that I couldn’t place).
“Dafydd is the Welsh for David”
“I’ll tell you what my father was like”,
“My teacher in school told me that the Amazon was the longest river in the world. I went home and said ‘In school today, I learnt that the Amazon is the longest river in the world.’ My Dad said ‘No it’s not. It's the Nile. The Nile is the longest river in the world’. I said ‘But Dad, my teacher said it’s the Amazon’ I said, because I would stand up to my dad, my sister wouldn’t, but I would. He said ‘No it’s not. You go back to school and tell your teacher it’s the Nile. The Nile is the longest river in the world”
“I went to my teacher the next day and I told her my Dad said it’s Nile, she said “No it’s not, it’s the Amazon. You can tell your father that it’s the Amazon’. I didn’t tell him again and I always put it as the Amazon in school, like my teacher told me”
“You see, in those days, they didn’t know where the Amazon started and where it finished and there were bits in the middle they hadn’t found. That’s why my Dad said it was the Nile”.
“To his dying day he swore the Nile was the longest river in the world”.
Two gentlemen in expensive pinstripe suits. They were probably solicitors or barristers.
The older of the two (looked in his 60’s), as his friend was putting down the tray with their lunch on, picked up the stainless steel tea-pot and exclaimed in a frightfully posh voice:
“My Lord! I haven’t seen one of those since I was in the S.A.S.”
Monday, February 13, 2006
Lines on Facing Forty
I have a bone to pick with fate,
Come here and tell me girly,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotting early.
Ogden Nash
Come here and tell me girly,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotting early.
Ogden Nash
How wrong was I about last Thursday?!
A rough chronological rundown of last Thursday:
11.30 Phone call from Mother in doc’s surgery (she had an emergency appointment - turns out she was injured by a mammogram a few weeks ago). Father being taken to Hospital, Blood Pressure V. Low & breathless. I panic, phone Spud and blub a bit.
1ish Get to hospital. Can't find Dad on reception, fear that Mother may have made ambulance do detour to Sainsburys. Find Mum in waiting room, Dad being wheeled past to have chest x-ray.
Time gets a bit hazy after this - Told that Dad has clot on his lung. He's given an injection of fast acting blood-thinner in his stomach. Me and Spud look away. I can see Mum’s thought bubble ‘Casualty Live! The Musical’.
Tea trolley arrives - He grins, the grin of a Tea-Pot Head denied his fix for several hours. Dad necks a cuppa down in one. His blood pressure rises. NHS may consider IV PG-Tips as treatment for pensioners.
4.30 Go to Mum & Dad's to pick up jimjams, toothbrush & sudukos - at this point he's staying in overnight.
4.40 Scoff fish and chips from chippy.
5.30ish Phone call from Dad - he's having blood test at 8, if it's ok he can come home at 9.
5.35ish Tell mother it's great she's so positive, but we ought to take Dad's jammys just in case.
5.40ish Uncle Barney says we should put a blue light on the LoveBus because it's been to 3 different hospitals in 2 months.
6.45ish Get back to Hospital. Dad in waiting room fully clothed (previously in fetching hospital gown).
Wait, wait, wait. In this period, mother extracts an old lady's life story, her address and those of her children and grandchildren.
Spud says he's going to start paying for BUPA - Mothers laughs so hard, she clutches her right breast 'Stop it. It hurts when I laugh' - possibility she may have weed herself (not asking if she did)
Wait, wait wait. Mother moans like a pensioner.
11.20 At last! Dad given the OK to go home
Drop folks off safely. (Feeling guilty that getting in and out of Lovebus is taking its toll on Mum's knees)
Get home - Chow outside waiting and crying. Next-door's cat asleep on our bed. Takes 10 minutes of chasing, bouncing on a bed and making loud noises to get rid of him. Bed 1.10AM.
Dad feels fine Friday. He and Mum went dancing.
11.30 Phone call from Mother in doc’s surgery (she had an emergency appointment - turns out she was injured by a mammogram a few weeks ago). Father being taken to Hospital, Blood Pressure V. Low & breathless. I panic, phone Spud and blub a bit.
1ish Get to hospital. Can't find Dad on reception, fear that Mother may have made ambulance do detour to Sainsburys. Find Mum in waiting room, Dad being wheeled past to have chest x-ray.
Time gets a bit hazy after this - Told that Dad has clot on his lung. He's given an injection of fast acting blood-thinner in his stomach. Me and Spud look away. I can see Mum’s thought bubble ‘Casualty Live! The Musical’.
Tea trolley arrives - He grins, the grin of a Tea-Pot Head denied his fix for several hours. Dad necks a cuppa down in one. His blood pressure rises. NHS may consider IV PG-Tips as treatment for pensioners.
4.30 Go to Mum & Dad's to pick up jimjams, toothbrush & sudukos - at this point he's staying in overnight.
4.40 Scoff fish and chips from chippy.
5.30ish Phone call from Dad - he's having blood test at 8, if it's ok he can come home at 9.
5.35ish Tell mother it's great she's so positive, but we ought to take Dad's jammys just in case.
5.40ish Uncle Barney says we should put a blue light on the LoveBus because it's been to 3 different hospitals in 2 months.
6.45ish Get back to Hospital. Dad in waiting room fully clothed (previously in fetching hospital gown).
Wait, wait, wait. In this period, mother extracts an old lady's life story, her address and those of her children and grandchildren.
Spud says he's going to start paying for BUPA - Mothers laughs so hard, she clutches her right breast 'Stop it. It hurts when I laugh' - possibility she may have weed herself (not asking if she did)
Wait, wait wait. Mother moans like a pensioner.
11.20 At last! Dad given the OK to go home
Drop folks off safely. (Feeling guilty that getting in and out of Lovebus is taking its toll on Mum's knees)
Get home - Chow outside waiting and crying. Next-door's cat asleep on our bed. Takes 10 minutes of chasing, bouncing on a bed and making loud noises to get rid of him. Bed 1.10AM.
Dad feels fine Friday. He and Mum went dancing.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Exciting day
Today was very exciting, when I got home from work.
I took delivery of a Half Man Half Biscuit CD & a book of the complete verses of Hilaire Belloc.
Also took delivery of Mo's birthday present - The Bionic Woman on DVD.
Tomorrow will seem dull in comparison.
I took delivery of a Half Man Half Biscuit CD & a book of the complete verses of Hilaire Belloc.
Also took delivery of Mo's birthday present - The Bionic Woman on DVD.
Tomorrow will seem dull in comparison.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Whipped Cream & Other Delights
I've been using flickr for some time now, but I'm finding there are things I want to say, but they're not always relevant to the pictures. Hopefully this will be an interesting and coherent accompaniment.
I went to Penarth this morning (should've gone to work to do O/T but, literally, couldn't stomach the thought) for a meeting with the bank. Although that was a waste of our precious time and robbed us of a Saturday lie-in, I enjoyed my wander around 6 of the 7 charity shops. Todays bargains were: another Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass for our collection, definitely one of the best album covers of all time "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", Pepe Jaramillo & his Latin American Rythm "Mexican Pizza", Grace Jones 12inch "Pull Up to the Bumper" and the Judge Dread 1991 annual. All vinyls in good working order, although Mexican Pizza stuck a couple of times.
My last great charity shop find was Divine's "The Story so Far". The Oddys will have to have a "vinyl night" soon.
I'm off to be disturbed by Celeb Big Brother now.
I went to Penarth this morning (should've gone to work to do O/T but, literally, couldn't stomach the thought) for a meeting with the bank. Although that was a waste of our precious time and robbed us of a Saturday lie-in, I enjoyed my wander around 6 of the 7 charity shops. Todays bargains were: another Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass for our collection, definitely one of the best album covers of all time "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", Pepe Jaramillo & his Latin American Rythm "Mexican Pizza", Grace Jones 12inch "Pull Up to the Bumper" and the Judge Dread 1991 annual. All vinyls in good working order, although Mexican Pizza stuck a couple of times.
My last great charity shop find was Divine's "The Story so Far". The Oddys will have to have a "vinyl night" soon.
I'm off to be disturbed by Celeb Big Brother now.
