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My local German Christmas market isn't open yet...
Posted Nov 26, 2007
...the wurst is yet to come.
Actually, that's not true. Glasgow's Winterfest is well and truly underway. But why spoil a good joke. Well...a joke.
As part of it, the kids took part in something as part of the biennial Radiance festival (light sculptures and installations all over town). They made some of the shadow puppets and were life action performers (you can't really see them) for this:
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The building it's projected against is the oldest house in Glasgow.
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Has the world come to this?
Posted Nov 8, 2007
God knows I'm a liberal on sexual matters. A libertine, even. But last night my limits of tolerance were stretched.
Prime time TV - a tall, skinny fashion lady and a stout, dumpy fashion lady were fondling each other's bare breasts. And members of the British pubpli were queuing around the block to bare their own breasts ifor the cameras.
I mean, it's been said that the British have gone from being British to Italian within a single generation...and some of the boobies were fairly pleasant (Mind you - you know what they say? 'If you've seen one, you've seen 'em both)...but even so.
It was bad enough when we had that scary nutrition witch probing peoples' faeces. Helena Handcart, I tell you!
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A spring in my step
Posted Oct 26, 2007
I don't like my voice. Never have. I stammer (not all the time, but often enough to annoy me), I have a week R (not quite Jonathan Ross, more Paul Morley) and I sound posher than I'd like to (in my mind's ear I sound distressingly like Derek Nimmo)
Anyway...I guess I was having a good day today. I'd finished a major report that had been stressing me and got great feedback on it. I was leaning gently in to the weekend. I'd just done a rehearsal of my talk for next week in front of colleagues.
I like doing talks. I get relaxed. My voice slows and lowers. And it stayed like that afterwards.
On the way home from work, I called in to the local pharmacy to pick up the wheelbarrow's worth of chemicals that keep me alive and happy every month. The pharmacist there is a TOTAL BABE! One of the assistants came up and I asked for my prescription. The pharmacist looked up from her bench:
"With as sexy voice like that, you should be on the radio."
What a kind lady.
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Latest reply: Oct 26, 2007
Computer says 'Nej'.
Posted Oct 22, 2007
I've just had a frustrating phone call with a Scandiwegian arline company.
I'd booked to fly Gothenburg-Copenhagen, Copenhagen-Glasgow. Then I realised that I wasn't thinking like a modern European. These days, Sweden and Denmark are connected by a lovely bridge. And my hotel is right by a railway station where I can get a direct train to Copenhagen airport which will be just about the same time and a lot more relaxing than flying. And if I leave early, I can have a day's sightseeing in Copenhagen.
So I phoned to cancel the first leg. I can't - the ticket is non refundable.
Fair enough. I'll forgo the money. The only penalty will be not covering the £3O (!!!) first class train fair.
So could they please cancel it anyway and I'll just check in at Copenhagen.
No. If I don't show up and board the aircraft in Gothenborg, my whole ticket is cancelled.
What?!! 
Why?
Because that kind of ticket doesn't allow you to do that.
I hate that kind of non-answer. Basically, they're saying that their company policy is to piss me off by making me do something that I really don't want to do, with no advantage whatsoever to them.
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Marcel Marceau dies
Posted Sep 24, 2007
I wonder what his last words were? 
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Latest reply: Sep 24, 2007
Edward the Bonobo - Gone.
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