Further to my last: a small black car with something peculiar on the roof has just driven past, heading towards the sheep field, the junction at the end of Valley Bottom and the road across the featureless Redneckshire steppe to the surprisingly repellent village of Bleak.
I do hope they have enough resolution to read Mrs. [...]
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The one that got away
Posted in goings-on, tagged Google Street View on 23 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nice little earner
Posted in goings-on, tagged Google Street View on 23 July, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mrs. Underclass has made up and attached to the front window a multi-coloured poster which says:
Private. Google does not have permission to film my House.
Apparently there are reports of a Google Street View car being seen around the town. Mrs. Underclass takes particular exception to Google Street View, with whom she has crossed swords before [...]
Optimistic
Posted in goings-on, tagged collapse of stout party on 24 May, 2009 | 8 Comments »
There seems to be general agreement that Enough is Enough. leg-iron:
It’s not just MPs who are the targets now. Simmering resentment for all manner of official lunacy has been brought to a head by the expenses revelations. There are many things that people have put up with for a long time because it’s not British [...]
The old man in the tricycle, who may or may not be a gentleman
Posted in goings-on, tagged cycling on 18 May, 2009 | 10 Comments »
[Sellar & Yeatman]
I used to be very fond of cycling, before I caught this wretched disease and they made me stop.
Not, I hasten to add, modern cycling.
For one thing, I had (and still have) a real bicycle. It is black all over, including the wheel-rims. It has dropped handlebars, a slender high-tensile frame and French [...]
Smoking research centre
Posted in goings-on, tagged pubs on 14 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Obliged to Dicky at the Adur Brewery for reference to this story in the Daily Mail (caveat lector), which suggests that it is possible for pubs to avoid the smoking ban by becoming smoking research centres.
Obviously the loophole is to be closed forthwith. Dicky says:
We suspect The Government (in their wisdom) has it in for [...]
Sorry; guinea-pig’s off
Posted in goings-on, tagged guinea-pigs on 21 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A nonsensical campaign by an apparently American animal-rights outfit, which is outraged that people should consider eating guinea-pigs, reported by Metro.
On Wikipedia it says:
They originated in the Andes, and studies based on biochemistry and hybridization suggest they are domesticated descendants of a closely related species of cavy such as Cavia aperea, C. fulgida or C. [...]
“It’s like that film, Captain Mainwaring.”
Posted in goings-on, tagged Pirate Bay on 17 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Stupid boy.”
Apocalypse Nowish sees the silver lining in the Pirate Bay cloud:
We have not only seen a theatre, a spectacle and a very funny ruling, we have also seen, in one stroke, something that has done more for liberty in Sweden that anything else I can think off. Almost an entire generation have gone over [...]
Christian festival = chocolate poisoning, again
Posted in goings-on, tagged Easter eggs on 9 April, 2009 | 12 Comments »
As I may have mentioned before, I am about as lapsed an Anglican as it is possible to be without converting to Sufism, shall we say, or then again it might be Zen Buddhism (it isn’t. Though it might be. If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is there to hear it, does [...]
I’ve seen a flying pig, in a quite convincing wig
Posted in goings-on, tagged G20 on 2 April, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Apparently first at Frank Owen’s Paintbrush, then elsewhere (would have provided link trail had not Vienna crashed again, losing the lot), my favourite (and almost certainly the rarest) G20 protest picture, that of a small, graphically-challenged but courageous wunch of bankers:
Now as a photographer of some antiquity I can’t help trying to analyse pictures like [...]
No, I’m Batman
Posted in goings-on, tagged young people today on 6 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It says in The Independent that
Nearly one in three children admit to having carried a knife or a gun…
To which is appended the woolly-liberal hand-wringing customary in this newspaper, and demands from someone with the temerity to describe himself using the words ‘liberal’ and ‘democrat’, who, predictably, is demanding
…hot-spot policing, intelligence-led stop and search…
and so [...]
