I’m as fond of animals as the next guy. Maybe even, as I contemplate the exorbitant cost of transporting my seven year old dog to Australia, a little fonder than most. Like most folks, I love little furry creatures and would be personally loathe to do them any harm. Like most people, I ignore the [...]
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Operation Family Outing
Bleinheim Palace was built for John Churchill the Duke of Marlborough by Queen Anne in gratitude for his leading a successful spanking of Louis XIV’s French Army. This gift was given despite Churchill’s bedding of Anne’s father’s, King Charles II, favorite mistress several years earlier. But a good French whooping puts anyone in the good [...]
Apolitical Friday: Baby Bliss
“Born to multiply,Born to gaze into night skies,When all you want’s one more Saturday.Well look here, until thenThey gonna buy your life’s timeSo keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters‘Til the day…You come in doing cartwheels.”-The Shins – “Australia”After the first night of Z at home I’m a little too [...]
Berries and the nomadic lifestyle
” I’ve been a long time that I’m waiting
Been a long that I’m blown
I’ve been a long time that I’ve wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind’s eye.”
Nick Drake – “Northern Sky”
This was meant to be a kind of flippant Tuesday post about berry picking, but as [...]
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