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 ...

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Cats Gain the Advantage

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When our cats were kittens we cat proofed the garden gates to stop them jumping up on them and escaping over. The two gates are about seven ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Golden Filter

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Sometimes you just need to view your small part of a big and often crazy world via the "golden filter". The golden filter makes ev...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Random Marks of Crisis

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"There is a crack in our world and a panic – a sense, across Europe, that the peaceful times are over. But it’s a kind of panic combine...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

"Gimme Back My Bullets!"

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"No, I'm keeping them and will recycle them by turning them into useful key rings. They're currently on my night stand resting....
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Lost Keys

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I have found some keys - but they are not my keys. They might be yours. They are/were on the stone lintel over the blue gate. You, both of y...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Satisfaction

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  I cleaned up this somewhat neglected log burner. Quite a satisfying thing to do.  I doubt that it'll burn any better but it's lost...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Glen Esk Daily Photo

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Nice enough day outside but no firm plans to go out anywhere further than a few steps away. No intentions of ranting about anything either. ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

SMEG Trivia

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I recently stayed in a large and very comfortable hotel that had placed SMEG fridges in each room. I thought that these were going to be ful...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Widdershins at Duck Duck Go

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Old or passionate politicians and activists confuse me with their unerring sense of purpose. The notion that argument changes things deeper ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

You Tubing

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Deciding to kick-start a YouTube channel is a bit like deciding to go to the gym regularly or befriend someone who lists “crypto investor” i...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

New Machine

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Mr Flymo has entered the chat: The afternoon hung heavy with the sweet, sultry promise of something new, the kind of day where the light see...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Macchiato

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 Macchiato at McMoo's Cafe. This is mostly how I roll. 9/10.
Friday, April 11, 2025

Robot Chuggers

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Nobodies fault but mine? In the city today, using card payments at a stationary shop, a pharmacy, a burrito cafe, a Japanese cafe and a Tesc...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

The Modern Lawnmower

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"This has all the makings of a ponderous, man of a certain age, type of rant about the steady decline of civilization and the death* of...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Intimate Problems

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There is a particular indignity that accompanies the male body in it's inevitable decline, a slow betrayal that begins not with some gre...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Thirty Three And A Third

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  You know that feeling you get when you realize that everyone else knows about something that you don't and you've suddenly to deci...
Monday, April 07, 2025

Glass, Iron And Bubbles

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Out of kilter photography: The wrought iron poets with their peculiar, angular attempts at space, form and wordsmithery are long gone. ...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Somnambulant Masses

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Comic Strip Idea: In the somber twilight of a society dulled by its own excesses, where the populace is lulled into complacency by the cease...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Ten Bucks An Hour

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100% tariffs: The news came subtly at first, like a whisper in a dark alley or the shadow of a hat blown across a deserted street. ChatGPT, ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

OTP

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The ever growing list of things that are now used "for your own good" cos you're actually a bit of a fuckwit, truth to be told...
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