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ten leylandii conifers cut down, some rough ground cleared, and loads of heavy gardening. cooking. oh yes, and sleep. lots of sleep. finally i feel i am getting over the last virus – surely it must be a virus to have survived 10 days of penicillin and lasted since early march. here’s hoping for a…

you can’t do anything whilst smoking them, except stop, think, and contemplate. i’ve just spent the past hour smoking one, and have worked out what i am doing to the garden today.

i just had a call frm a headhunter; at least i presume it was a headhunter, because they claimed to be a magazine in new york to which i had never subscribed, but was “free”, and they sent me a copy six months ago, and wanted to clarify my job title. who the hell telephones…

recent history i left guillemont a little too late to make my flight to lisbon; i reckoned that i had just made it, but even with half an hour to go before takeoff they closed the flight in case i was incapable of running to catch it. i got rebooked onto the next lisbon flight…

“UFO could have been electrocuted cat Experts say a reported UFO sighting in Norway was probably an electrocuted cat. People in Lardal reported seeing a fire ball explode in the night sky and fall slowly down to earth. But investigators think they’ve solved the mystery after the charred body of a cat was found at…

…and felt that it did portend many things in a portentous sort of way. it seems that i was right [news.bbc.co.uk] i was going to entitle this entry: saddam hussein ate my walking boots …but felt that having woken up to find war being prosecuted in the mid-east, that perhaps the omen cited in the…

okay, okay; so there have been no updates while i was in denver and i have been a bit scanty with the personal diary stuff of late (especially cat-oriented stuff to satisfy the likes of brad and the other feline-fans) so let’s try and make up for it a little. weekend before last comprised gardening…

type three sexually-loaded nouns and adjectives into google’s image search, and try to come up with zero hits. safesearch should be “off” eg: [images.google.com] is a winner.

Suggestion for an exercise in humility, contentment, and gratitude for what you have: Near closing time, go down to your local, largest bulk supermarket to do your shopping – Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Wal-mart, whatever… Look, be aware of and take notice of what everyone else has in their baskets at the checkout. Repeat occasionally at…

Well, I could be like some other bloggers I know and write something long, thoughtful and insightful about myself, developing as a person and my plans for the future and romantic stuff and somesuch else… …but alas (a) i don’t have the time to do that, and (b) i don’t have anything applicable to share…

View them at [www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk] but take a look first at British Museum station, and click on the link for the far more interesting poster. It’s an insightful read. 😎

There’s a documentary on Lomography on BBC4 this evening [www.bbc.co.uk] which I shall be watching. That said, the modern/recent Lomo cameras I have handled are overpriced and crummy – hence why my Lomography is done with a 35mm Minox GT-E.