A bloke just walked into the office and asked if he could check our airconditioning after lunch. Now, last time anyone futzed around with our aircon (“cleaning it”, I think was the term they used) it stopped working for about
That was one hell of a thing.
And that, as they say, was the trip. I’m presently parked in the BA lounge at JFK, having been dragged from my 9:00 flight to the 18:00 one. They offered me $800 by way of compensation for my trouble, and
Leaving Mississippi…
That was awesome. So good to be back. Thanks to all of y’all: especially Bullfrog, Rebecca, and little Miss Callie.
Take me back on down to Dixie…
I got interrupted from my top ten this morning by an airport cab driver who had the gall to arrive early, and my laptop’s currently checked into a baggage hold somewhere so I can’t finish it… So I’m sitting waiting
Hooray for holidays
I’m sitting in Aaron & Tanya’s kitchen, writing a blog post while we wait for the satellite TV guy to get his arse back down from the roof so we can jump in the car and go in to check
Top Ten Tuesday: Numbers between 1 and 100
Possibly the finest Top Ten I’ve ever assembled. It’s bewilderingly good.
It had to be him…
I suspect this is going to be one of those posts that begins with “I don’t normally get involved in such things, BUT…”. Hmm. OK, it would be safe to say that the recent televisual goings on involving Harry Connick
A further 15 seconds – should have about 14 minutes and 7 seconds left, according to popular belief
There’s not much more to this than blatant self-promotion – the other week our morris dancing team (that would be The Westminster Morris Men, in case this wasn’t yet abundantly clear) was filmed as part of an ITV News piece
Top Ten Tuesday: 1970s/80s British Comedians that I’ve been within 50 feet of
This is largely inspired by last night’s gig, Ade Edmonson & The Bad Shepherds – I turned to The Puzzler and said “How far do you reckon that distance is between me & Ade?”, and he said “About 50 feet?”. And almost instantly I came up with this list. And technically it was before midnight, so it’s still a Tuesday list. Alphabetical order, sort of.
Top Ten Tuesday: Monty Python Sketches
With the 40th anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus happening this week, and prompted by having spotted another similar list, I thought maybe I’d apply my brain power to the topic of which are my favourite Python sketches (thereby resulting