it’s getting worse …
last night 
perlmonger did remember to make the bread. He weighed the ingredients and put them into the machine.
however, he forgot to turn it on …
for those following the saga
perlmonger has documented our delightful Wednesday here – I’ve had better days, frankly.
still, I’m finding the ripping of the vile blown vinyl wallpaper from the landing walls quite therapeutic, so I go out and do a bit of that from time to time.
weekend
Saturday was quite idle, really – we dickered around with some stuff for a potential new site. Pete didn’t stir out of the house at all, and all I did was walk up to the Local Shop (for local people) to get mushrooms and cream for the beef stroganoff I was planning to cook that evening.
what does it *mean* ?
from me to perlmonger
“were there two ears without begonias?”
and yes – he knew exactly what I meant.
in the *worst* possible taste
I give you Jesus does “I Will Survive” from Youtube.com.
ding dong
By mac and has 5 comments.
do I *look* like a home storage and delivery service?
so far this morning, we have had a chap knock on the door with a box containing wine from Virgin Wines – this for no 19. Why they can’t do what we do, and support the local off-licence (which is very, very good) I have no idea.
we’ve also had ANC deliver a box for no 22 – no idea what’s in it, but it’s marked as fragile.
we are going out this evening, so I shall have to keep nipping (or popping) out to check when these people are home. And cardboard boxes in this house tend to get widdled on by cats, so these deliveries are currently in front of the freezer in the shed, meaning I can’t get to it.
I’ve often thought that there might be some mileage in somebody starting a home collect service that worked in the evenings – delivery to a local depot, then the punter could go and pick stuff up. But I suppose there would be problems with credit card authorisation and stuff. If it were that good an idea, I guess someone would have done it.
in the meantime, could somebody move those boxes for me?
like brother, like brother
By mac and has 3 comments.
“The governor of Florida is playing hardball abortion politics with a severely disabled woman’s life when he should instead be worried about her best interests.”
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like a hole in the head …
Iggy has an abscess in his left cheek. A *huge* abscess.
so far we have done three trips to the vet, including one this morning (thus paying Sunday rates, and missing Ivor B’s (WINOLJ) birthday party.
and there’s be another trip on Wednesday, and possibly another after that.
he’s feeling very sorry for himself this afternoon, and is following us round the house, raouling in a mournful manner. I hope the poor chap feels better soon.
oh, this is good
Jackie Ashley interviews Melanie Phillips.
“Phillips is quick to take offence. That she has just compared a gentle, quizzical interviewer to a complacent pre-Nazi-era German and to Stalin might – just might – have struck others as potentially offensive. That she finds a continuum between law-abiding, peaceful Muslim fellow citizens and terrorists might – just might – strike others as potentially “inflammatory”. That her newspaper, the Daily Mail, pursues anyone who dares criticise it by vilifying them for years afterwards might – just might – strike her as an example of the intellectual bullying she attacks. And perhaps her emailing my editor before I have even sat down at the keyboard to write this article is, at the very least, unusually defensive behaviour.”
more here (from the Guardian>
remembering scarlatti
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Susan Elizabeth Leinbach, 28/11/1966 – 15/6/2006
safe journey, my friend.
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