So there I was wading through the 9/11 nonsense which has invaded AFU and I come across a guy quoting from what claims to be Bill Clinton's Blog!! "In-depth analysis of current events, personal stories and humor".
I have no idea whether this is real or a hoax. It looks slick enough to be real - but why would Bill Clinton be advertising Amazon in his sidebars?
Anyway - go to the site and you decide!
Cheers,
Monday, March 28, 2005
Nesting instinct II
So the last two weeks have seen two three day weekends - we don't get easter here for a few weeks yet.
These have seen another orgy of buying - from IKEA again. ..
Here is Korinna with a bunch of wood, barely able to sit properly in the car.
So, it's been quite a few days of putting together and fixing to walls and hammering nails, but things are shaping up. We wanted to avoid DEXION shelving in the little whaddayacall store room thing, so we got a bunch of the GORM range of shelves from you-know-who (no, not voldemort...)
One part of the GORM sits in the little store-room
So now we have pine-fresh storage space. Just don't put anything on the shelves straight, though, put things in a box or something, 'cos there's a whole bunch of resin waiting to get stuck to you. I know this because I have done this.
Here is a LACK in our kitchen
And like the photo caption says, we put a Lack shelving whatsit in the kitchen. A bit costly at about €90, if you ask me, but they look nice and it fits in with the rest of the Lack stuff we got.
Nesting instincts.
I know this, because Tyler Durden knows this.
These have seen another orgy of buying - from IKEA again. ..
Here is Korinna with a bunch of wood, barely able to sit properly in the car.
So, it's been quite a few days of putting together and fixing to walls and hammering nails, but things are shaping up. We wanted to avoid DEXION shelving in the little whaddayacall store room thing, so we got a bunch of the GORM range of shelves from you-know-who (no, not voldemort...)
One part of the GORM sits in the little store-room
So now we have pine-fresh storage space. Just don't put anything on the shelves straight, though, put things in a box or something, 'cos there's a whole bunch of resin waiting to get stuck to you. I know this because I have done this.
Here is a LACK in our kitchen
And like the photo caption says, we put a Lack shelving whatsit in the kitchen. A bit costly at about €90, if you ask me, but they look nice and it fits in with the rest of the Lack stuff we got.
Nesting instincts.
I know this, because Tyler Durden knows this.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
Man, is this funky, or what? I often go down to Tolweb for a browse when I am bored and have exhausted other things to look at, and this week they gave us Vampyroteuthis infernalis: "It occupies meso- to bathypelagic depths throughout the tropical and temperate regions of the world's oceans."
This is one funky critter, although I am not sure why it is called sea-vampire.
Photo credit: © 1999 Brad Seibel
Image used without permission, if you don't like that, let me know.
Funky, huh?
This is one funky critter, although I am not sure why it is called sea-vampire.
Photo credit: © 1999 Brad Seibel
Image used without permission, if you don't like that, let me know.
Funky, huh?
Express service or how I stopped worrying about my FIAT and learned to love driving
Gotta say, I've really got my money's worth out of Express Service. They've picked me up, sometimes in the middle of nowhere, about six or seven times.
So what happened now? well, there I was, cruising down Kifissias when all of a sudden the gears disappear. The forks had done something inside the gearbox or something and I was left with third gear, permanently in gear and no way to change out of third or into neutral.
The fun I've had with this car...
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Byz Mus
Well, it's so there, like in your face every time you go down to Syntagma or pass by Kolonaki, sitting there in all it's courtyarded synmmetry next to the uber-modern leggo-brick of the war museum. You cannot get away from it, and this time, seeing as I had about 30 minutes left to spare in between IKA and the Aiginitio, I decided to go for it.
Comments? well... wow bob wow!!
I had been back before the famous Sicilian expedition of 2001, back in the age of innocence, before the events of September, and the museum was in the old central building and not too exciting, a little cramped and badly lit.
Now, well, totally different. I was really quite overawed. The last real exhibition of Byz stuff I had seen, if we exclude the collections in St. Marky-Mark's in Venice, was in the Louvre, where I had been bowled over by the representations sorta in-situ of the Coptic stuff.
The exhibition is organised a little bit chronologically, a little bit thematically and a little bit geographically. The labelling is as good as any you'll find elsewhere and the stuff in there is good stuff - like, I had never seen anything like the marble icon of the BVM from C12th Salonika.
I am not much of an icon man, but this one stuck in my mind: (bring out the mobile cam...)
It's like "squirt, gush" John Boorman's Excalibur meets the crucifixion... woo!
So, time for more pics, then:
Here's a bit of lacy plant material, similar to what you'll find in Justinian's churches in Istanbul, if you go:
'cept it's really nice and clean here and you can get right up close to it and all. They have some nice floor plans of Basilicas and whatnot, some drawn on the ground, to give an idea of scale, but one thing that jerked me off a little was the way they have put up iconostasis members and bits of doors and stuff and then behind it, put in a picture of San Vitale from Classe (WTF??) or Hossios Loukas (better, but still jarring). Quite obviously the bits you are displaying never existed in San Vitale - it was always totally open, but no, you gotta claim that as Byz - fine. Moot point.
What I did not find was quite as much Gothic stuff as I had hoped. Korinna and I have this running Gothic Joke, probably because our first trip out of Athens took in a rather fine Gothic monastery out at Isova, but maybe not.
All I got (and please remember I was not in there for too long) was this:
Pretty Frankish, really... hmmm. Actually this bit belonged in the church at Andravida (about half way down the page) we visited with the Jockster.
This is meant to have considerable gothic influence in it too:
I'll let the reader decide.
Need to go back with my cameras. They have the lighting in there all at low incident angles to bring out the sexiest shadows possible from the bas-reliefs.
Well... must scoot - I am very happy that I chose to pop in there, though.
Cheers,
Comments? well... wow bob wow!!
I had been back before the famous Sicilian expedition of 2001, back in the age of innocence, before the events of September, and the museum was in the old central building and not too exciting, a little cramped and badly lit.
Now, well, totally different. I was really quite overawed. The last real exhibition of Byz stuff I had seen, if we exclude the collections in St. Marky-Mark's in Venice, was in the Louvre, where I had been bowled over by the representations sorta in-situ of the Coptic stuff.
The exhibition is organised a little bit chronologically, a little bit thematically and a little bit geographically. The labelling is as good as any you'll find elsewhere and the stuff in there is good stuff - like, I had never seen anything like the marble icon of the BVM from C12th Salonika.
I am not much of an icon man, but this one stuck in my mind: (bring out the mobile cam...)
It's like "squirt, gush" John Boorman's Excalibur meets the crucifixion... woo!
So, time for more pics, then:
Here's a bit of lacy plant material, similar to what you'll find in Justinian's churches in Istanbul, if you go:
'cept it's really nice and clean here and you can get right up close to it and all. They have some nice floor plans of Basilicas and whatnot, some drawn on the ground, to give an idea of scale, but one thing that jerked me off a little was the way they have put up iconostasis members and bits of doors and stuff and then behind it, put in a picture of San Vitale from Classe (WTF??) or Hossios Loukas (better, but still jarring). Quite obviously the bits you are displaying never existed in San Vitale - it was always totally open, but no, you gotta claim that as Byz - fine. Moot point.
What I did not find was quite as much Gothic stuff as I had hoped. Korinna and I have this running Gothic Joke, probably because our first trip out of Athens took in a rather fine Gothic monastery out at Isova, but maybe not.
All I got (and please remember I was not in there for too long) was this:
Pretty Frankish, really... hmmm. Actually this bit belonged in the church at Andravida (about half way down the page) we visited with the Jockster.
This is meant to have considerable gothic influence in it too:
I'll let the reader decide.
Need to go back with my cameras. They have the lighting in there all at low incident angles to bring out the sexiest shadows possible from the bas-reliefs.
Well... must scoot - I am very happy that I chose to pop in there, though.
Cheers,
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Posted to rcp...
Last weekend I acquired some 200 firebricks - the ones displayed here.
They were going to be used in a fire-place but never made it, so I asked the uncle who had them whether he would mind parting with them.
My original plan was to make a kiln along the lines of the one on this site and I have been in rcp before asking for help and have been helped considerably by those who have answered.
Now - the bricks I have got are not shaped like common house bricks... they are shaped like 22x11x4cm or 8.7x4.3x1.6 inches. If I build the Brisbane 250 with these, I'll get a fire chaber
and firebox of about 8 cm height or 3.2 inches high - not so good.
If I switch height and width, apart from stability problems (trying to balance 25 courses on 1.6 inches base...) I figure I'll have problems with how thin the walls of the kiln will be.
Whatever happens, I don't have enough bricks to do anything right at the moment.
One idea is to stand the bricks up on their thin side, and then have another layer of bricks outside them to insulate. If I cannot get other bricks, does anyone know a reason why I should
not use the stones which are sitting around in the garden? These are big limestone blocks, some of which are squared and have been used in the past as masonry. I don't think we'll be approaching lime-kiln hot (but I don't actually know how hot lime kilns get, although a first google search show 2,000F). Hmm answered my own question there probably.
OK - so buy more bricks is the way to go. If I run out of the fire bricks, does anyone have an idea where they should be put and where it is not 100% necessary - I realise the whole kiln can be made without firebricks, but since I have them, I would rather they be used where there is high temperature.
I have not tried anything like this ever, I have not got a very acute sense of planning in 3D (to the extent that following the detailed plan course by course on the above mentioned web site
would have been a challenge), and I am not even sure whether I can find suitable blocks with which to make a model and see what I can do to maximise the benefit of the fire-brick gift.
I am willing to learn.
They were going to be used in a fire-place but never made it, so I asked the uncle who had them whether he would mind parting with them.
My original plan was to make a kiln along the lines of the one on this site and I have been in rcp before asking for help and have been helped considerably by those who have answered.
Now - the bricks I have got are not shaped like common house bricks... they are shaped like 22x11x4cm or 8.7x4.3x1.6 inches. If I build the Brisbane 250 with these, I'll get a fire chaber
and firebox of about 8 cm height or 3.2 inches high - not so good.
If I switch height and width, apart from stability problems (trying to balance 25 courses on 1.6 inches base...) I figure I'll have problems with how thin the walls of the kiln will be.
Whatever happens, I don't have enough bricks to do anything right at the moment.
One idea is to stand the bricks up on their thin side, and then have another layer of bricks outside them to insulate. If I cannot get other bricks, does anyone know a reason why I should
not use the stones which are sitting around in the garden? These are big limestone blocks, some of which are squared and have been used in the past as masonry. I don't think we'll be approaching lime-kiln hot (but I don't actually know how hot lime kilns get, although a first google search show 2,000F). Hmm answered my own question there probably.
OK - so buy more bricks is the way to go. If I run out of the fire bricks, does anyone have an idea where they should be put and where it is not 100% necessary - I realise the whole kiln can be made without firebricks, but since I have them, I would rather they be used where there is high temperature.
I have not tried anything like this ever, I have not got a very acute sense of planning in 3D (to the extent that following the detailed plan course by course on the above mentioned web site
would have been a challenge), and I am not even sure whether I can find suitable blocks with which to make a model and see what I can do to maximise the benefit of the fire-brick gift.
I am willing to learn.
Weekend brick fun
So, I have this little 899cc car I am very very fond of - and last weekend it braved the rain and wind and weather for me, laden with some 200 fire-bricks, the poor bastard.
The wheel ain't meant to sit that low down on the suspension, oh no... normally it sits like in the right hand side photo.
So 200 fire-bricks each weighing 2Kg, makes about 400Kg - or the equivalent of six people on the back seat. Ouch!
And here they are. And there they are after Kostas the friendly Albanian helped me move them into my mother's garden...
That's 200 bricks, with dimensions 22x11x4 cm.
The next step is to ask out on r.c.p what I can do with them, other than make a midget two foot kiln. I am looking for ideas on making them into a Brisbane kiln, but want to use these bricks only where absolutely necessary.
I'll cross post my questions to rcp to the blog, and probaby any answers too.
Cheers,
The wheel ain't meant to sit that low down on the suspension, oh no... normally it sits like in the right hand side photo.
So 200 fire-bricks each weighing 2Kg, makes about 400Kg - or the equivalent of six people on the back seat. Ouch!
And here they are. And there they are after Kostas the friendly Albanian helped me move them into my mother's garden...
That's 200 bricks, with dimensions 22x11x4 cm.
The next step is to ask out on r.c.p what I can do with them, other than make a midget two foot kiln. I am looking for ideas on making them into a Brisbane kiln, but want to use these bricks only where absolutely necessary.
I'll cross post my questions to rcp to the blog, and probaby any answers too.
Cheers,
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Riddle solved, probably
So, we have an answer to the what was this stone, before it became a stone, question... Christof Kuhn gives us the answer over in usenet: "one of the strangest bivalves that ever existed" - it seems this cheeky chappy was a cretaceous Hippurites!!
Woo!
Woo!
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Piraeus panorama
On Sunday I went for a coffee with Kostas and Olympia and some family, to Profitis Ilias - the prophet Elijah - on top of the Kastelli hill down at the Piraeus.
Place has a stunning view down the coast facing south, but also across to the city, with the parthenon clearly visible, amongst other landmarks. Not really visible in the version attached, but you get the idea. Got to go back with K - the viennese chocolate was really rathergood.
The pic above was put together using a funky bit of demoware called autostitch which belongs to some sort of Canadian educational establishment - and it sure is good at sticking stuff together, oh yes. The inputs were crappy little nokia phone camera images. There'll be more autostitched images coming here soon...
Cheers,
Place has a stunning view down the coast facing south, but also across to the city, with the parthenon clearly visible, amongst other landmarks. Not really visible in the version attached, but you get the idea. Got to go back with K - the viennese chocolate was really rathergood.
The pic above was put together using a funky bit of demoware called autostitch which belongs to some sort of Canadian educational establishment - and it sure is good at sticking stuff together, oh yes. The inputs were crappy little nokia phone camera images. There'll be more autostitched images coming here soon...
Cheers,
Monday, February 21, 2005
WTF
The following site has been brought up on the Aegeanet mailing list recently. It seems to be being presented with a straight face. How anyone could have learned so much as to present his parody so convincingly as real scholarship without any tongue in cheek elements is really quite amazing.
Have a look for yourselves and let me know - is he taking the piss? If not, where did he leave the rails? Can we expect more archaeological eras to be presented in the same way?
Click here to broaden your mind...
Follow the link and scroll down if you get bored reading, you’ll know when to stop scrolling.
Cheers,
Have a look for yourselves and let me know - is he taking the piss? If not, where did he leave the rails? Can we expect more archaeological eras to be presented in the same way?
Click here to broaden your mind...
Follow the link and scroll down if you get bored reading, you’ll know when to stop scrolling.
Cheers,
Unidentified rock - can anyone help??
This cheeky chappie was given to me by a great uncle about ten years ago, with another specimen of the same size and shape, which I have not photographed. The provenance is most probably from the former Soviet Union or Iran - great aunt was a diplomat based in both Moscow and Teheran at some point in the '70s and '80s. They went to other places as well, but these are the most probable countries of origin for the rock.
It's heavy rock, and displays ribbing here and there and what seem to be growth rings, on close inspection. I figure it is some sort of coral, but I know very little about coral and the like.
I’d be grateful for any hints as to what this is and how long ago it used to live. If there is something I should do to aid recognition, please someone let me know.
Here is the front face:
Here is the back side (showing the vertical ribs):
This is it side-on, standing up (some of the concentric rings are visible):
OK, here you can see the vertical ribbing more:
And here again the broader ribbing - seems to be two sizes of little ribs, those about 10-15mm wide and those about 1-2 mm wide.
This is the top (or bottom) end showing, though not very clearly, concentric internal structure:
Any help gratefully received...
Cheers,
It's heavy rock, and displays ribbing here and there and what seem to be growth rings, on close inspection. I figure it is some sort of coral, but I know very little about coral and the like.
I’d be grateful for any hints as to what this is and how long ago it used to live. If there is something I should do to aid recognition, please someone let me know.
Here is the front face:
Here is the back side (showing the vertical ribs):
This is it side-on, standing up (some of the concentric rings are visible):
OK, here you can see the vertical ribbing more:
And here again the broader ribbing - seems to be two sizes of little ribs, those about 10-15mm wide and those about 1-2 mm wide.
This is the top (or bottom) end showing, though not very clearly, concentric internal structure:
Any help gratefully received...
Cheers,
Friday, February 11, 2005
glut
330 euros damage done. Shelves, bookcases and small items.... not even half the full shopping list, but what the hell.
Had a number of comedy moments carrying everything into the car and up to the house from the car, but this sort of thing cannot be helped. Got a lot of work to do at the weekend now.
Had a number of comedy moments carrying everything into the car and up to the house from the car, but this sort of thing cannot be helped. Got a lot of work to do at the weekend now.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
nesting instinct
So, seeing as I moved house in January, it's about time I got the place sorted out and tidied up. Nesting instinct, and what better nesting instinct than the IKEA nesting instinct?
I forgot to put a little flashing sign saying, "cue: raucous laughter" there where it says January above, because I moved house in January 2004, you see, not 2005. ha bloody ha. So many people giving me a hard time about that it's not so fun. At least K isn't being too tough on me, making her the one who more than others deserves to have the nest.
Nesting instinct, and Ikea, and the fiat cinquecento of doom, then. Didn't tell you about the comedy return from Paloumba two weeks ago... ridiculous short-circuiting meant that if I wanted any of the following to work: headlights, central locking, ventilator fan, I had to have the full beam lights on,but not switched on, no, no, I had to have the little whaddayacallit stick thing pressed towards me, otherwise notihing at all worked. Very good fun trying to turn without taking your hand off the full beam switch, or else risk losing the only source of light you have on the road.
Fixed that by yanking the wires around in the rain in a fit of complete annoyance.
Now we will break all records by trying to jam into the car more Ikea DIY flat furniture than ever before. My current best is two full length BILLY bookcases (60cm variety) plus assorted sundries.
The current plan has me getting three of the buggers in there, plus a few LACK shelves and bookcases and a bunch of GORM shelving too.
Utter chaos. It so totally won't work, it's gotta.
Meanwhile in other news, I have been wondering just how much coffee I need to do any better than bouncing bobcat on the BBC's reaction time test. I have managed the rocketing rabbit only twice.
Hmm. That'a all for now, then. More later.
I forgot to put a little flashing sign saying, "cue: raucous laughter" there where it says January above, because I moved house in January 2004, you see, not 2005. ha bloody ha. So many people giving me a hard time about that it's not so fun. At least K isn't being too tough on me, making her the one who more than others deserves to have the nest.
Nesting instinct, and Ikea, and the fiat cinquecento of doom, then. Didn't tell you about the comedy return from Paloumba two weeks ago... ridiculous short-circuiting meant that if I wanted any of the following to work: headlights, central locking, ventilator fan, I had to have the full beam lights on,but not switched on, no, no, I had to have the little whaddayacallit stick thing pressed towards me, otherwise notihing at all worked. Very good fun trying to turn without taking your hand off the full beam switch, or else risk losing the only source of light you have on the road.
Fixed that by yanking the wires around in the rain in a fit of complete annoyance.
Now we will break all records by trying to jam into the car more Ikea DIY flat furniture than ever before. My current best is two full length BILLY bookcases (60cm variety) plus assorted sundries.
The current plan has me getting three of the buggers in there, plus a few LACK shelves and bookcases and a bunch of GORM shelving too.
Utter chaos. It so totally won't work, it's gotta.
Meanwhile in other news, I have been wondering just how much coffee I need to do any better than bouncing bobcat on the BBC's reaction time test. I have managed the rocketing rabbit only twice.
Hmm. That'a all for now, then. More later.
Friday, January 28, 2005
where are my snow-chains??????
I really really do need them this weekend, dammit.
Might have to go buy new ones. humpf!
Might have to go buy new ones. humpf!
Weekend worries
So, here I am with streppy-throat and lemsips all a steaming, and feel like shit and worried for my liver. How the hell come is it that everything that has some sort of action beneficial to you in an analgesic or anti-inflammatory way shafts the liver well and proper?
I have become a little more aware of my liver in recent months, ever since the SGPT and SGOT and the gamma GT jumped and caused me a little concern. I mean what the fuck are all these numbers and letters all about anyway? I’ve done my reading, oh yes, and now I know what the numbers measure. I also know I can live with much higher numbers than those I am currently scoring on my "to what extent have the interferons fucked your liver" scale.
So I am all throated out and fluey at the moment.
Nevertheless, I am still going to lead a rag-tag fugitive fleet to Pal - no wait, that’s something else, I’m in charge of a group of cavers, not a Starfleet. So we going to Pal tomorrow morning. Oh yes.
Between Vityna and Marko's junction there is settled snow on the road. Marko's junction is where the hairpin bend is after Zatouna. Mother had trouble getting as far as Zatouna yesterday, although the sunny weather should have made things better for today.
The plan is to set off at 06:30 hours tomorrow morning from the club and meet at the kiosk at 07:00 hours. From there we scoot to Pal as fast as we can, to meet the mayor who will give us the 4x4 and someone to take us to the holes. Temperatures in Paloumba are currently at about 7 degrees.
We have about 110m of rope - three twenties and a fifty. We have about five little ropey things and six belts plus some wire rope, got about twenty anchors and plates for rigging, but hope to do most of it without having to hammer the rock anywhere.
No idea what we’ll find - so quite excited. Worried about how all the team will sleep and how they’ll be accepted by the villagers, etc.
Generally got a whole bunch of worries on my mind.
And now a quote from his Bobness:
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
I have become a little more aware of my liver in recent months, ever since the SGPT and SGOT and the gamma GT jumped and caused me a little concern. I mean what the fuck are all these numbers and letters all about anyway? I’ve done my reading, oh yes, and now I know what the numbers measure. I also know I can live with much higher numbers than those I am currently scoring on my "to what extent have the interferons fucked your liver" scale.
So I am all throated out and fluey at the moment.
Nevertheless, I am still going to lead a rag-tag fugitive fleet to Pal - no wait, that’s something else, I’m in charge of a group of cavers, not a Starfleet. So we going to Pal tomorrow morning. Oh yes.
Between Vityna and Marko's junction there is settled snow on the road. Marko's junction is where the hairpin bend is after Zatouna. Mother had trouble getting as far as Zatouna yesterday, although the sunny weather should have made things better for today.
The plan is to set off at 06:30 hours tomorrow morning from the club and meet at the kiosk at 07:00 hours. From there we scoot to Pal as fast as we can, to meet the mayor who will give us the 4x4 and someone to take us to the holes. Temperatures in Paloumba are currently at about 7 degrees.
We have about 110m of rope - three twenties and a fifty. We have about five little ropey things and six belts plus some wire rope, got about twenty anchors and plates for rigging, but hope to do most of it without having to hammer the rock anywhere.
No idea what we’ll find - so quite excited. Worried about how all the team will sleep and how they’ll be accepted by the villagers, etc.
Generally got a whole bunch of worries on my mind.
And now a quote from his Bobness:
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
talk about going to eleven!!!
So I get home yesterday, and there's a big 12" square envelope waiting for me with big magic marker letters on it in the instantly recognisable hand of Jockey.
All the way up to the flat, I am thinking to myself, what this is... obviously some vinyl, otherwise no need to write DO NOT BEND in big letters on it: but what sort of vinyl? and should I worry that there seemed to be a bit more 'give' in the envelope than there should have been?
Once this was noticed, the possible gift came to me in a cascade of recognition... what vinyl would Jockey be sending me? what vinyl is not perfectly round? what vinyl is shaped like a megalithic monument? how much better a birthday present could this have been?
None - none, more better...
Thanks, Jock man.
Below, a photo of my shaped vinyl copy of Spinal Tap's "Bitch School"
Oh - and as an extra treat: two photocopied photos of the moocher!!!
All the way up to the flat, I am thinking to myself, what this is... obviously some vinyl, otherwise no need to write DO NOT BEND in big letters on it: but what sort of vinyl? and should I worry that there seemed to be a bit more 'give' in the envelope than there should have been?
Once this was noticed, the possible gift came to me in a cascade of recognition... what vinyl would Jockey be sending me? what vinyl is not perfectly round? what vinyl is shaped like a megalithic monument? how much better a birthday present could this have been?
None - none, more better...
Thanks, Jock man.
Below, a photo of my shaped vinyl copy of Spinal Tap's "Bitch School"
Oh - and as an extra treat: two photocopied photos of the moocher!!!
Monday, January 24, 2005
Birthday trip to -90m
So 32, eh? Well, it's not all that bad.
Spent the day with family and not too much hoo-ha, then spent yesterday out at Vouliagmeni. It has what we term a Gruiyere consistency - holes everywhere. Not exactly my cup of tea. Very hot too - up at 26 C inside which makes you sweat just from standing there. I must have lost a few K in sweat yesterday.
Next weekend, we go exploring in Paloumba - finally!
Spent the day with family and not too much hoo-ha, then spent yesterday out at Vouliagmeni. It has what we term a Gruiyere consistency - holes everywhere. Not exactly my cup of tea. Very hot too - up at 26 C inside which makes you sweat just from standing there. I must have lost a few K in sweat yesterday.
Next weekend, we go exploring in Paloumba - finally!
Monday, January 17, 2005
Where the hell are my snow chains????
and all the channels, scum-suckers that they are, are trying to induce mild panic in the population about the oncoming bad weather. And I'm sitting here thinking weather/schmeather cos like they always go over the top and tell us there's going to be a flood and it doesn't even rain, and when they say nothing, that's when the snow comes down, oh yes.
I have never needed to put on my snow chains. The car does just fine, even on snow, without them. Still - it's good to have them in the boot, you know - so where are they? Who wants to own up and let me know what they done with the snow chains?
I have never needed to put on my snow chains. The car does just fine, even on snow, without them. Still - it's good to have them in the boot, you know - so where are they? Who wants to own up and let me know what they done with the snow chains?
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