Look at it and laugh and then think about it some more. Still funny.
And to everyone that I forced this on, I'm sorry.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Just funny
Look at it and laugh and then think about it some more. Still funny.
And to everyone that I forced this on, I'm sorry.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
In like a lion
Defying belief, the past week has been, well, pleasant. We've had sunny skies and warm (sit outside during the day) temperatures. What is most striking is the less-than-subtle change in people's attitudes and dispositions. It's like living on a different rock.
This of course prompted me to scrub the grill clean. The accumulation on the grill itself was impressive given that we didn't clean it before not using it for the past 7 months. But, it sparkles now and lies in wait for a sunny afternoon (when my friends aren't working, otherwise, I'd have a BBQ every day!).
PS - St. Patrick's Day is not real big around here.
This of course prompted me to scrub the grill clean. The accumulation on the grill itself was impressive given that we didn't clean it before not using it for the past 7 months. But, it sparkles now and lies in wait for a sunny afternoon (when my friends aren't working, otherwise, I'd have a BBQ every day!).
PS - St. Patrick's Day is not real big around here.
Monday, 9 March 2009
This Rocks!
Conspiratorial stones, plotting against the king....
At the end of February, there was a confluence of birthdays. To celebrate, I organized a field trip. In the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire counties, there are dozens of stone circles, barrows (long graves), and man made hills (yes, they really look different). AND they are several thousand years old (seriously, like '5000 years old' old). Far beyond mere Stonehenge, there are many accessible and roughly intact stone circle, many of them linked in a way that they were only discovered with aerial photography.
A group of 8 intrepid explorers were rounded up (of 5 nationalities: Hungarian, New Zealand, American, Italian, and English - the last to interpret and speak with the locals) and we found not only the above mentioned types of sights but also the 'famous' Bourton-on-the-Water model village (1/9 scale village). And as one of the Kiwis pointed out, the scale of the village had a scaled scale version of it (1/9 scale, 1/81 scale, ....ad infinitum...). Neato!
Avebury, where the stone circle goes around the entire village. You can walk around and touch the stones. Most of them, as you can see by comparison with the people in the picture, are quite large.
We also saw White Horses carved into the sides of mountains:
At the end of February, there was a confluence of birthdays. To celebrate, I organized a field trip. In the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire counties, there are dozens of stone circles, barrows (long graves), and man made hills (yes, they really look different). AND they are several thousand years old (seriously, like '5000 years old' old). Far beyond mere Stonehenge, there are many accessible and roughly intact stone circle, many of them linked in a way that they were only discovered with aerial photography.
A group of 8 intrepid explorers were rounded up (of 5 nationalities: Hungarian, New Zealand, American, Italian, and English - the last to interpret and speak with the locals) and we found not only the above mentioned types of sights but also the 'famous' Bourton-on-the-Water model village (1/9 scale village). And as one of the Kiwis pointed out, the scale of the village had a scaled scale version of it (1/9 scale, 1/81 scale, ....ad infinitum...). Neato!
Avebury, where the stone circle goes around the entire village. You can walk around and touch the stones. Most of them, as you can see by comparison with the people in the picture, are quite large.
We also saw White Horses carved into the sides of mountains:
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