Sorry, I was just a little Trigger happy.
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I liked it better the second time. He seemed to be enjoying it more.
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I like this world, it's full of comedians.
sort of.Comment
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Just returned from my hour and a half long walk. When I got back in, the postman had just arrived.
Thanks Paul for two terrific deliveries. Love the lyrics to the atom. Ismael, yes, I stand by my view that he is very underrated. In any case, I like him and that whole vibe with the harmonica really appeals to me. Would like to see him live one day.
Very muddy in the woods. I need to give up the habit or else they need to drive the all night petrol garage nearer to my home. I've seen the wheels so it is mainly a question of whether they can be bothered to do so. :cool2:
(PS It is exactly the same bit of rural-suburban scrub where Ray Mears taught himself bushcraft - it's called bravery).Comment
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Yikes John. That is a bit surreal on this afternoon of all afternoons. I'm just off to see the grimly fiendish dalek vulture-monsters in the rebranded Botulism Towers.
I've got on my boomerang overalls for the occasion. They have an inbuilt humanity clock and repel all of the gruesome viboids as soon as they reach Factor 43 on the precision tickometer.
Lord Liberal Somebody Who Resigned This Week, speaking about those who run this joint - "a lethal combination of the arrogant and the inept".
Student to Adolf Cleggmeister, asking about the u-turn on student fees - "Are you mad, stupid, or malicious?".
Phrases I won't be using as I cower under the presence of all the politically unaccountable bouncers with shares in outsourcing companies. Never used to like that sort of thing anyway, and still don't, but it all sometimes seems sadly appropriate.
Still, there's Lopa and Abigail and The Verb, another programme with Brian Rust and Carol Klein on the television gardening tonight to reintroduce the concept of light while I am bandaging my wounds.Comment
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In the meantime Lat you could do worse than listen to one of our very nice locals who did a very fine essay on R3 last night just in front of Max - you'll recognise Ken from the Verb - talking about his dad and mountains and being Scottish (and the absolutely glorious McCaig poem about the summits of Assynt is in there too). Soothed my soul last night, and it wasn't really needing soothed.Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
Alternatively perhaps your place of Friday worship was more like this.
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That Izzard should be on the school curriculum. But is there one this week ?Comment
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His last Monroe at 89. I will certainly listen. The Eddie Izzard - very funny. "Lord Vader of Cheam". I might have mentioned this before but for over twelve years until 2005, I lived to the west of Sutton just off the road to Cheam. Alas, there is no such place as East Cheam but if there was that would have been where I was based geographically. Lateral's Half Hour.
Slightly sweeter visit today. The air in the room seemed to taste of a welcome, if most peculiar, absence. There were even a few plastic smiles. They have levers attached to their heads that enable you to influence their mouth movements. I hadn't noticed them before and was previously erroneous in thinking they were permanently on grimace.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I signed on the dotted line with my eyes closed, got quickly back into the armoured tank, and drove out as soon as I could through the nearest drainpipe. A very clear road home actually. I now have a helper who walks ahead of the vehicle with a red flag that I made out of a raggedy old hoody.Comment
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Right I get it now, Lat - that's what happened to the Hoody that Cameron hugged! Poor fellow!Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
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Yes, someone called Andiy Coulsdone doctored the tape. The words were originally "mug a hoody".Comment
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......Have now listened to Kenneth Steven's essay, John. Very moving. I particularly liked the part about each climbing to the height at which they wish to settle. As a child, I was a very keen walker on the hills and coastal paths, never moaned, but I might have been different had my parents taken me regularly up into mountains. I did though climb Snowdon and also walked down from its summit when I was twelve.
Good old Wikipedia advises that there are 283 Munros and that the current holder of the record for the fastest continuous round is Stephen Pyke who completed his 2010 round in just under 40 days. How on earth did he achieve that feat? I saw a programme on the TV once with a Laird who owned several of them. Are there not access issues? How does Scotland manage that aspect? I'd be interested to learn - Lat.Last edited by Guest; 13-02-11, 18:41.Comment
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Ken's dad was quite a guy - I met him a couple of times over the years - a great lover of the Scottish mountains and keen to share his love - they're also Iona people - Ken's poems about Iona are really terrific. Sir Hugh Munro who put the original survey together lived in an estate not far from Kirriemuir, here in West Angus. A guy I know has just completed all of them for the second time. That guy who did it in forty days said he managed to do it 2 days ahead of schedule - I know he was planning it for 18 months.
The right to roam is a big issue in Scotland which has always been protected and though there are restrictions they are more often caused by huntin' shootin' type things. As someone who has been up about two munros in my life I'm not best to comment, but the idea is that people of any age can complete the Munros though there is one which involves serious rock climbing - the Inaccessible Pinacle in the Cuillins of Skye - one of my colleagues just did that and she said it was seriously scary, though she couldn't see much for the fog.
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I will be listening to sixteen by Lester Bullock that have arrived in my inbox.
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.....Yes, I liked the Dillinger. I'd heard a few of the tracks before but far from all of them. My favourite was "Smiling Faces" but "Three Piece Suit and Thing" - cross refer to Althea and Donna - ran it close and there were a whole lot of others I liked. Well, all of them. The Kung Fu angle made me smile. You could hear how the Clash had picked up on some of it too. (I try to get the Clash into every other post).Comment
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