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 31, 2012

More holiday snaps

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Thin, cliff edge trees.  Dead centre of Ibiza.  The sun sets somewhere in the East.  Barcelona bike taxi waits for a fare.
Monday, July 30, 2012

Holiday snaps

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Useless and unwanted headphones strewn across a bus stop roof in Barcelona. Pan tiles and vines: Cote d' Azur. Serious but dea...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Some time in Terminal 5

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Terminal 5 roof, detail. Returning to the UK via Terminal 5 at Heathrow, not much evidence of the Olympic Spirit being spread around. He...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Thank you sir!

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It's great when the shared wisdom of the internet is available to the common, perplexed and stressed man when he requires something in...

Arrested Development

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Oops, poor lady, I hope it wasn't her first tattoo, you have to admire her for going public with this. I lifted this (lazily) fro...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Great Scottish Summer

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Actual Greggs steak bake and actual simulated coffee. Baby Swifts in the coal cellar, either asleep or awake, I'm not sure. S...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Perthshire Rambler

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Every so often you come across a tree that has a chain wrapped around it's trunk. Why does this happen? I don't really know but t...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Banned by the Brand Police

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Olympics organisers have warned businesses that during London 2012 their advertising should not include a list of banned words, including ...

Sporting integrity

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Here's a cat who looks like a cat (Syrus)  we lost about five long years ago. We were both pretty upset when Syrus disappeared and se...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Knitting the Olympics

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Just back home from a week in the Perthshire hills feeding and having fun with a variety of my children and grandchildren. Some random ph...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Cabin fever

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Regular rain, the unravelling of the great Scottish summer, TV on the Fritz, maybe too much chocolate or bacon, excess amounts of corn sy...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Abandoned petrol station

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There are plenty of used up, closed down petrol stations here and there but this one is a pretty good example of a business that...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Public service assistance

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If your for sale sign becomes dangerously squint then there are people driving around who will quietly and carefully fix it for you by ap...
Friday, July 06, 2012

BBC Retweet

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John Barclay @Johnbarclay1 @TommyReckless   @BBCComedyCafe  Heard the show, of course you were fab. Radio time seems twice as fast as...

Friday's trousers

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Friday's trousers were/are a nicely proportioned 1950s style grey selection that I imagined would almost render a man invisible shoul...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Band of Gypsies

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A few deja vu moments from the Edinburgh Tuesday Night Monsoon Sessions. If you're thinking that these folks look like they can...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Frankly disturbing

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Yesterday's blog pic was perhaps a little disturbing. I don't really want to represent myself as a ranting idiot, angry at the no...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Mysterious Ways

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Yes indeed, God moves pretty mysteriously and also says some interesting things about himself/herself/itself.
Monday, July 02, 2012

Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Sponge

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Today's question of the day is: Is there a name for that highly tasty and pleasurable thing that happens when you bite into a tiny Vi...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Woody

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From the kitchen window, near Selkirk in the beautiful Scottish Borders. I like woodpeckers, the way they look, the way they fly and the...
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