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This is not to be taken seriously in any way whatsoever…
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Due to the recent increase in fox attacks in the Greater London area, local residents have been calling for immediate action to be taken. Over the last week the London Mayor’s Office had been in discussion with various groups and interested parties and hit on a solution that satisfied all involved. Read more »
So I last updated just before I travelled to South Africa for 3 weeks. It was great, all I could have wished for. I even got my highveld thunderstorm that I had craved for months that first day I was there, a few days later there was another that was an awesome and spectacular show of lightening and eardrum-ripping cracks of thunder! That first weekend we, after a little bit of hassle from the guards and caretaker of the complex, had a lovely braai…on our small balcony. There weren’t that many of us so it was just perfect. Chatted and caught up, laughed and made fun of each other…it was like I never left! Read more »
I have decided to put together an amalgamation of false starts and catch you up on what I have been up too in the UK. This will leave me free and uncluttered to describe my holiday in SA in more detail in a few weeks. I’ll leave my previous attempts unedited and updated so that you can see that I did try…just not hard enough. My excuse? The last few months have all been pretty much the same and therefore I’d just be repeating myself…again. Read more »
I can’t recall where I left off, Stafford? Cambridge? Northampton? Well, I start off from where I think I left off. I was in Stafford for two weeks, oh yes; I left off saying I was going castle hunting the next day… it didn’t pan out. It was too far and I was too lazy! I got a photo of it in the distance! Between some trees and over some houses…you can barely make it out! Lol. No seriously, by the time I was done with shopping for supper and doing all the little things I was in no mood to get lost…again! If you recall, I had already ridden the bus along the whole circuit. I didn’t want to do that again!
Just a little warning: this is a long post, so you might want to mentally prepare yourselves!
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I thought it was about time I updated this blog, seeing as I finally uploaded all my pictures onto facebook.
So where were we? Oh yeah, I told you very quickly how Cambridge and Cheshunt were! Ok. I was originally booked for 2 weeks work in Cheshunt with a possibility of a third if we got on. I stayed for the third. The work was easy, the time off excellent and the two of us got on well, like a house on fire. I’ve been asked to go back, I just don’t know when yet. I think my contract will have to be renewed; 3 months’ work is almost up! Shite, is it really August already?!!
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The first and most obvious is Ice Age 3… I see it advertised on TV every day almost half hourly. But i’m confused, the dinasours where extinct way before humans even evolved from apes. For mammals to even succeed in evolving form little more than a scrat sized character the dinasours had to dissappear. So why does the third Ice Age movie have dinasours (Extinct 65 million years ago) in it when the first movie had humans that already had control of fire (~700 000 years ago)??? Read more »
It’s been so long since I last wrote that I now just keep putting it off and off. So long that entire Ages have come and gone while legends, myths and local tales have been created, avidly listened to over a fire on cold winter’s night and then forgotten again.
I’ve been procrastinating again. I had nothing, still have, to tell you about. Over the last week and a bit I returned from Cheshire to Harefield. I had the unfortunate luck of travelling while it was raining. It wasn’t too bad…I had recently brought a new backpack that had a rain cover so all my luggage was fine, it was only me that got wet! Besides, once on the train, the rain couldn’t get to me, I sat watching the passing scenery, humming along to the music on my IPod.
I’m busy writing this in the warm sun, sitting on a bench in a square of sorts in Handforth, Cheshire. Watching office workers sitting and standing here and there having the lunch, be it food or nicotine, teenage skateboarders and rollerbladers racing after each other, little boys kicking a ball to and fro, and little girls in purple clothes blowing bubbles in the air while granny watches on from the sidelines.
I was just writing to Kelly when I came across a phrase that got me thinking. “Passed with flying colours”. So, anyone know the origins of this phrase?
I know that a flag used to be called your “colours” so “flying colours” could refer to a flag. The image I have stuck in my head is that from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3′ when the pirate flags are hoisted up and fly in the wind. But what does the “passed with” pertain to? That you successfully got passed the enemy ship with the wind whipping your flags?? Or does it mean something completely different? And why is it now used in the current context of successfully passing a test/exam/subject etc?
I know it’s a completely random question, but that’s what you all love about me! But now that I’ve stopped to think about it, it’s going to bug me! I’ll give you guys some time to answer before I go to my bible…Google!
Toodles:)