Thursday, August 31, 2006

Best of Times

Mr Zimmerman has a new recording for sale.
It's really rather good.
If you'd like to sing along, you may read the lyrics here.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Live man walking

The Walking Englishman is so very pleasant on the eye and is most informative too. Lovely.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

All Kinds of Everything

Well, where shall we go today?

More orchids for starters, perhaps? And bonsai too?

Or how about some more microscopy?

We could have a peep at some pictures of some wonderful chimeras.

Then, a comprehensive page of herbalism links.

Maybe some free utilities downloads?

And to finish, Portmeirion and the Botanical Garden.

Right, I'm off to read a book. (Barchester Towers, as you ask. Charlie likes to curl up with a little trollop of an evening....).

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Running on empty

Here's the story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon.

Fantastic.

Woke up this morning....

Now Charlie's not one for tooting another's clarinet but credit where it's due.

Mr Fitzgerald writes a splendid blog over at Squeeze my Lemon, which has wonders aplenty. As the name suggests (to those of us who listen to such things) it's all about the Blues and related matters and bless my soul, he roots stuff out which even I haven't heard, so the customary apes, ivory and peacocks go to him.

Amongst his recent posts he has links to the magnificent Delta Blues Museum, which in turn has a link to the related Purple Beech's Uncensored History of the Blues, which has detailed information all about Mr Rugel's podcasts of the same name. These may be downloaded from Odeo's podcast thingummy and played at your convenience on a portable listening device. Ah, these modern times in which we live.

Thank you, Messers Fitzgerald and Rugel both.

Still here...

I hate to say 'I told you so' but we're all still here!



Told you so.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

No longer with us

So, if the world is going to end, what else has gone before?

And, just to pass the time, how about Nudist Trampolining (yes, really)?

...and I feel fine.

It's the end of the world as we know it...

...anyone fancy a tenner on us all still being here on Wednesday?
I feel we might be.

Monday, August 14, 2006

In a grain of sand

Continuing to recover...
I felt up to misting the orchids this morning, then found this diverting thing about electron-microscopy.
Be amazed, my dears.

Ah, the ennui.
Watching Betjemen on the moving television but taking no pleasure from it. Tried listening to Vashti Bunyan and Anne Briggs earlier but that failed too. And the flame-haired temptress is feeding me some filthy Chilean slop that says Merlot on the label but I fear is a llama-based beverage. They say, by the way, that anchovies are endangered. What shall we do for relish and sauce? We need something to make plain toast palatable and toasted cheese and ham edible.