impossible songs

These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Brian Wilson would be proud

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Shoes in no particular order on a rock on a beach. Cows v a tank, not as simple a situation as you might think. Lay around recovering from t...
Monday, July 28, 2008

A tiger in your tank

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Nice weekend spent in overlooked and under populated Galloway, just outside Scotland. Superb weather, empty beaches and huge ex-army tanks a...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Music

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Man of constant sorrow - the chords if you will. The Soggy Bottom Boys share a mike but not this time. Percy Plant and Ali Kraus and a smal...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

A rare outpouring of energy

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Came home from work and once I'd removed a mouse's tummy (the bit cat's never eat as it is sacred to them) from the carpet I set...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Chews day

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Peace has broken out after a busy weekend and the laundry is piled high as domestic bliss falls like a silent curtain and the week creeps aw...
Monday, July 21, 2008

I am the chef

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Following on from yesterday's near death experience only avoided thanks to a working parachute a small celebration was called for. Thank...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Parachute

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A wet Saturday spent for the most part near Anstruther watching my daughter and her husband doing a parachute jump. How easy to handle or st...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Annoying sun

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A fine example of the sun wearing sun glasses in that peculiar and senseless way it does.

Sign of the times

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Everyday (well most days) I drive past a sign that declares "Burntisland the best day out in Scotland". Apart from any obvious com...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Book of splinters

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Driving across Glasgow is pretty awful, it's not the place, it's the ground up traffic and the lack of a solution to unsticking this...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Laugh? I nearly wrote a song...

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I picked up the following quote on the BBC website: " In doing so, they come up against the guardians of traditional morality -such as ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Raspberry Beret

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Over the weekend we ate a lot of raspberries, a fruit Ali describes as "Scottish". I suppose that in a certain north of Dundee, DC...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Two weeks since the party

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The helium has gone home to ten thousand feet or the centre of the earth, local air traffic is curious but not disturbed and the West wind b...

Impossible confushion

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Much of today was spent recording and jamming with the good old boys from Confushion, the multi-talented John Farrel and Fraser Drummond. We...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Recipe: Rain + cake

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After a few weeks of my usual procrastination I am now learning a bit more about the use of ubuntu and the operation of linu...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

4 Free, Free 4

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Every day life's lessons teach us that nothing is really free. Even when you add up the costs, do the maths, compare the prices and fina...
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Sunday, July 06, 2008

W**rd Ph*s*cs

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Sometimes it's very hard to see the way things are going, particularly when you realise that impossible things aren't really impossi...
Friday, July 04, 2008

What lies beneath

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Pork and mango curry I'd say, with a little lime pickle, rice, onions and the correct amount of seasoning. It bothers me that the bulk ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

I don't know either

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Ok I don't get it either but if Dr Who is dead and must regenerate is it not possible that he may return as the Alex Kingston character ...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Lost (and found) weekend

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Firstly thanks to CBQ for "collage 31" (above) which sums up in a rather nice pictorial shorthand the major activities here over t...
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