How can someone so big come down my chimney and empty his sack full of presents to fill me with Christmas cheer?
He manages it every year without fail and I’m sure he’ll come back this year once he’s had a good sleigh ride around the world.
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best for another year of good health.
I invented a dangerous new razor; Arthur’s Razor. It’s sharp and it’ll make your hair curl.
It’s a brain teaser for the future, place your bets and remember, everyone’s a winner.
Is it better to know life’s changed but to feel the same or for life to stay the same but to feel different.
Please think about it carefully.
Robert David Jackson
Not just cities, but towns and cities in new countries I either haven’t visited or haven’t visited in decades.
Back in my 20’s and 30’s I did a lot of sailing and lived on my own small yacht in the Mediterranean for 5 years which I thoroughly enjoyed.
At the age of 53 and possibly having a mid life crisis along with some other trauma and life changing and possibly affirming events over the last couple of years I have decided I would like to sail again while the spirit is willing and the flesh just about up to it too.
This time I thought I’d like to see more of the UK, Europe’s Atlantic coastline and the Baltic. Writing this post I’ve even thought of a potential route, weather, winds and tides permitting: from the UK down to the Channel Islands, across to Brittany, north to the Baltic and then eventually back via the Shetlands. There seem to be so many fantastic and beautiful old towns on this route and sailing is a cheap and efficient way to see them (as long as you don’t get too scared or seasick).
I’ve even started looking for boats that would be suitable and found the below one, the Vindo 40. They’re beautiful boats and very seaworthy, unsurprising having been built in Sweden, but they’re not the only type I’d consider as long as it can cope with the odd gale.
Adios, aggravation
From sterile to virile to febrile once more in the manner of Neil Armstrong.
We have a problem.
Yes folks it’s time for another potcast, I just can’t stop buying pottery and porcelain of dubious worth because it’s interesting to me (it may be an autistic trait).
Here’s today’s charity shop find (along with some CD’s I’ve been listening to all afternoon).
It’s a little Japanese egg cup (I suppose it could double as a sake cup!) that probably dates from the 1950’s or thereabouts. There’s a few similar for sale on ebay but not too many although they really don’t appear to be particularly sought after looking at prices.
I particularly like the decoration in bold primary colours but now I’ve bought it I’m wondering whether it’s not my eggs that are hard boiled but is in fact my wits that are completely scrambled.
I’m gonna go against convention and think of a technology I have to live without but wish I didn’t.
And here it is! in all its glory:
The mobile phone key finder and spectacle finder app.
It can’t be that hard can it? An app on your phone that sends a signal to a small receiver in a key fob or your specs that causes them to screech their current location to you for those senior moments.
Maybe that’s the problem, the bright young things of today that design these things won’t experience those frustrations for another 30 years.
As a Brit I’ll be having a M&S pasta microwave meal for lunch today but since most of the few of you who visit my blog are either American or Indian I thought I’d take this opportunity to wish the Americans amongst you a very happy holidays, I hope you all get to spend it in the manner you wish.
I’d solve the problem of faster than light travel, build a spaceship cum time machine and defeat the Kelads before they became a problem: they were always one of my pet peeves.
I’d confine the Cybermen to cyberspace.
And thirdly I’d get one over the Doctor.
He equals MC squared,
A fish supper.
Beef Curtains.
Sausage sandwich.
…Best served with plenty of hot sauce.
Thinking about it, it must be time I threw another one of my swinging dinner parties (no need to bring a bottle).
It’s cleaning up afterwards that’s the biggest chore..
The original sin, eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, when to fight and when to run.
They’ve got me this far in life and will stay with me and you until the day we die.
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