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 ...

Monday, August 31, 2009

Golden Wonders x 2

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The last potato harvest has come in, just prior to the monsoon season restarting. Plums are next, in fact right on the cusp of harvesting no...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Dunfermline Upper

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There was at one time an Upper and Lower Dunfermline railway station. Now there is just a Dunfermline (and a weird hospital stop to the East...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

The road and the miles

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I was (and you may be as well) shocked/appalled/indifferent/suicidal/quite happy/grim faced/philosophical/pleased* (*delete as applicable)...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Heard it on the tiny speakers

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What is the measure of your success? For a holistic view of that and what might mean an appropriate answer, forget it. Too many spikes, flat...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Poor Man’s Noodles - the return

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It’s strange how you return to comfort foods, even when you are not uncomfortable, even when you are smug, self righteous and on top of the ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

My city in ruins...

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Farewell then to Scotland's international reputation, ruined for the time being by the actions of the theologically challenged and evan...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

I vow to thee my clunker

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Could this be the greatest product the world has ever seen? Naturally not available in the UK where a conspiracy of purchasing and procureme...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Big in Japan

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Finally we are making a breakthrough on the mainland of that magical and far away place called Western Europe. The cultural and musical trad...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Libyan human rights?

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Keep on rockin' in free world etc. etc. Libya's record on human rights is rather poor. Some 200 North African refugees were rounded ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Fish supper

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After accidentally stepping into some spilled diesel at a Shell station I experienced that awful feeling of losing one's footing on the ...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Green Mile mouse

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I like animals, in fact I'm sitting on one in the left of this picture and not being bad to it all, quite the reverse, a few minutes lat...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Fish pie

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Not quite the table setting for tonight's feast The oven is on at 200 and the fish pie is slowly baking, we are in rundown, worn out and...
Friday, August 14, 2009

How high the moon?

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Nothing is happening apart from dodging meteorite showers and observing migratory birds. The weather is playing havoc with the TV schedules ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Non-Ukrainian tractor

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There in some tractor garden, still rusty and in daily use. To pull the lobster pot boats from the land to the sea and back again. Fordson e...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Pea green in Brora

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On a sunny beach in Brora pea soup is ladled out, it is everyday, special day and it is far away. I'm enjoying my new appreciation for t...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Where mermaids play

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The tipple known as Sloe Gin or "sloggin" or Long Island Tea or something, it's not gin, it's not mulled wine, it's so...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

In a blue sky hole

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Summering is better than wintering and the hole of blue sky that we currently inhabit remains around us and above our heads. Grey clouds rol...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Wrong end of the scope

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I don't want to be remembered as the man with the one white eyebrow hair, that wiry sticky out mutation of hair that torments my head. N...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Everglades daily photo

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Possibly the end of this occasional and seasonal series - behold the wilderness and the native's accommodation. Today I face the barren ...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Back to work - the long way

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Up at 6.20, little or no hangover, mild sunburn wearing out, finding the way back to work along familiar roads signaling the short end of t...
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