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This week, Inspiration suggests it would be wise to follow the stars…
Capricorn: Cook for a friend.
Aquarius: Create some ‘positive graffitti’.
Pisces: Make up a word and use it three times in the next 24 hours.
Leo: Reply to a letter from a newspaper’s letters page.
Virgo: Decide what bird you’d be, were you a member of the Tit family.
Libra: Cook for an enemy.
Scorpio: Buy a goldfish, and give it the name ‘Catherine Zeta-Jones’.
Sagittarius: Try Buddhism, give it another go, or drop it.
Aries: Ignore all advice on days of the week featuring the letter ‘a’.
Taurus: Break a taboo... yes, that one.
Gemini: Go go-karting, or quad-biking.
Cancer: Write a polemic titled ‘Cannibalism: a misunderstood lifestyle choice’.
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The weekend was spent in the North East. That included Saturday at a ‘Radio 1 Big Weekend Festival’ in Sunderland. Emma, a non-native, upon first hearing the local accent, remarked “I didn’t understand a word”. I imagine LocalAccent thought ‘That bird in the purple wellies was a bit posh like’. Featuring a largely unmoving musical line-up, radio DJ hosts who took tedium to the extreme and great big downpours, the event passed without really engaging me much. Sister Wexford (provider of free tickets to the event) was glad to publicly beat me on a football shooting game, but later tore strips out of me for throwing an early towel in on the music event (she and a pal had queued for many hours to acquire tickets). My suggestion of “Go out, get drunk and forget about it” did not assuage her. This, I inferred, from her use of the term “Fuck off you dick”. That said, she has now calmed and good relations are restored.
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There’s an article here about people’s most cherished memories. In the UK, ‘Child birth’ tops the personal memories list, ‘Live Aid’ (1985) tops the UK memories list, and ‘Berlin Wall’ (1989) tops the world memories list. My choices:-
Personal - Several people and a few places (far too tough to call).
UK – Response to death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997).
World – Opening night of fire, Gulf War (1991).
NB/ My choices for UK and World memories are not 'cherished'.
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Emma’s father – a chap of good social standing – in discussing the recent general election mentioned that he was toying with forming a new political party based on how he felt in relation to those that already existed. His party would be called The Greenish Party. What a man.
*****
I love Old Cool.
Capricorn: Cook for a friend.
Aquarius: Create some ‘positive graffitti’.
Pisces: Make up a word and use it three times in the next 24 hours.
Leo: Reply to a letter from a newspaper’s letters page.
Virgo: Decide what bird you’d be, were you a member of the Tit family.
Libra: Cook for an enemy.
Scorpio: Buy a goldfish, and give it the name ‘Catherine Zeta-Jones’.
Sagittarius: Try Buddhism, give it another go, or drop it.
Aries: Ignore all advice on days of the week featuring the letter ‘a’.
Taurus: Break a taboo... yes, that one.
Gemini: Go go-karting, or quad-biking.
Cancer: Write a polemic titled ‘Cannibalism: a misunderstood lifestyle choice’.
*****
The weekend was spent in the North East. That included Saturday at a ‘Radio 1 Big Weekend Festival’ in Sunderland. Emma, a non-native, upon first hearing the local accent, remarked “I didn’t understand a word”. I imagine LocalAccent thought ‘That bird in the purple wellies was a bit posh like’. Featuring a largely unmoving musical line-up, radio DJ hosts who took tedium to the extreme and great big downpours, the event passed without really engaging me much. Sister Wexford (provider of free tickets to the event) was glad to publicly beat me on a football shooting game, but later tore strips out of me for throwing an early towel in on the music event (she and a pal had queued for many hours to acquire tickets). My suggestion of “Go out, get drunk and forget about it” did not assuage her. This, I inferred, from her use of the term “Fuck off you dick”. That said, she has now calmed and good relations are restored.
*****
There’s an article here about people’s most cherished memories. In the UK, ‘Child birth’ tops the personal memories list, ‘Live Aid’ (1985) tops the UK memories list, and ‘Berlin Wall’ (1989) tops the world memories list. My choices:-
Personal - Several people and a few places (far too tough to call).
UK – Response to death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997).
World – Opening night of fire, Gulf War (1991).
NB/ My choices for UK and World memories are not 'cherished'.
*****
Emma’s father – a chap of good social standing – in discussing the recent general election mentioned that he was toying with forming a new political party based on how he felt in relation to those that already existed. His party would be called The Greenish Party. What a man.
*****
I love Old Cool.
posted by Shane @ 1:15 pm
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