Talking of right wing
tyranny . . . Funny to see the (very) late King of Saudi Arabia being
lauded by David Cameron as 'a man of peace'. Could this be the same
man who ran a country viciously vying for regional supremacy with Iran and
financing the Sunnis in Syria in the process? Not to mention the
egregious Sunni ISIS, or whatever they're called this week. We'll be
praising his human rights record soon.
I've long thought that
the best cohabitation arrangement would be side-by-side cottages,
connected by a shared door, with a bolt on each side. A couple of
friends did buy two side-by-side Cheshire cottages but chickened
out and knocked out the connecting wall, and its invaluable door.
But, anyway, the world is now catching up. I hear that
'living-apart-together arrangements' (LAT) are the coming thing. It's not a guarantee of success, of course, and
next-door-neighbours, Ms Bonham Carter and Mr Burton, have allegedly
since split up. See here and here.
If you can't hack
Chaucer in the original 14th century English and don't want to read
him in modern English that loses the metre and the rhyme, this is the
guy for you. He's very helpfully put a lot of The Canterbury Tales
into a form that merely updates the spelling. Terrific stuff and he
deserves a medal. Even if he is American.
In a Simpsons episode I
saw this morning, Homer is told there are only 6 types of beggar:-
bad musician; mixed up (army) vet.; cripple; fake cripple; religious
zealot; and crazy guy. His friend has obviously never been to
Pontevedra. Or any other Spanish city for that matter.
Finally . . .
Discounting the bits of my bougainvillea which have never died, this
is the first flower of the year in my garden. Except, I think it's
probably a weed. But . . . As a weed is simply defined as "A
flower growing in the wrong place/garden", I have the power to
decide that, in my garden, this weed is a welcome January flower. It will very soon be joined by the also-yellow mimosa blooms.
And I've named it
"yellowbell", for pretty obvious reasons.
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