GenX Mongrel Male High Church Atheist, Walks (Berks/Hants/S.Oxon/Wilts), an occasional satirist (poor) and even worse poet. Centre-left/sometimes right.
Reading, England
Joined March 2020
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Just so I can pin this to my feed. We sent Mum off in style. Laughs, tears, one ‘sod Covid’ hug between two tearful Sons - and a beautiful afternoon on the 25th.
Dear Readers, I do worry about AI, as well as infidelity, international spies and capitalist tech barons….
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1.39am the last firework sounded.
Come on lads, Diwali may be about light over darkness, but it was a bugger to get to sleep last night.
Tbf I’d be fine up to 10pm.
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It’s also Diwali today. Celebrating the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
And Remembrance Sunday.
Seems an apt coupling.
1/3 A quick jaunt over to Remenham and Henley on Remembrance Day where Market Place will be closed for the commemoration.
But first to the River….and the Chilterns in the misty background.
2/n As a former rower can I just say that Ladies who row had a certain appeal (in my youth). Good shoulders and firm arms. I married a netball player who took up aerobics. And for a few glorious years (PS: she’s a lawyer) I was able to say I was going out with an aerobics instructor.
Nowadays, I am not proud of this wanton denial of my future wife’s intellectual capabilities in favour of her firm bod and ability to gyrate next to a boombox - but it made all my male friends jealous. And what man doesn’t want to do that.
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A certain Mr Phil Anderer, the hirsute and verbose former jester, pesterer and molester, rounded upon his media advisor as the guilty verdict was handed down….
We were there to listen to the exchange.
Sometimes a personal brand cannot be rescued.
1/n So it went something like this. First a foggy Ipsden then a foggy South Stoke.
Walking up the road past W E Bullock’s farm and Ivol Barn. Arable.
Dear Readers, as Bonfire night fades from our cultural memory, an appeal to keep the fires burning…metaphorically of course.
The skills of St Olave’s - these were, reputedly, added in the early 19th century to prevent the bodysnatchers from getting into the churchyard and exhuming the remains of the newly dead who had been laid to rest in the churchyard beyond!
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“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot….”
What was I doing last year and some years before that?
25 entertaining. I left hungry.
24 Riverside walk (Thames).
21 Apparently the sun shone….
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“The new hob doesn’t work!” (Came the plaintive cry), “even though the light comes on”.
“Have you tried putting a pan with some water in it on one of those round things? Maybe it’s one of those new fangled ones…”
“Oh” (20 seconds later) “Now it does.! Shall I try the booster button?”
“Why not, go for it”
(20 seconds later” “Jesus the water’s already boiled!”)
Dear Readers, it’s like magic. Or like the time we got a new car without a handbrake…
Kinda scary.
