@ 2006-11-30 – 11:34:18
As its my birthday on Sunday I decided to make an ebay pre-emptive strike, and as such bought 'Photoshop elements' so that I can do much fuck-arsing about.
I am well chuffed insomuch as I got elements4 for just £16.50 as opposed to nearer £60.00 being that they've updated, now we're on elements5, but this retails for £69.95.
Ho-ho, such fun. Lamposts be-gone! Roadsigns, pah!
Examples to be posted as soon as.
@ 2006-11-30 – 11:33:26
As its my birthday on Sunday I decided to make an ebay pre-emptive strike, and as such bought 'Photoshop elements' so that I can do much fuck-arsing about.
I am well chuffed insomuch as I got elements4 for just £16.50 as opposed to nearer £60.00 being that they've updated, now we're on elements5, but this retails for £69.95.
Ho-ho, such fun. Lamposts be-gone! Roadsigns, pah!
Examples to be posted as soon as.
@ 2006-11-30 – 11:33:16
As its my birthday on Sunday I decided to make an ebay pre-emptive strike, and as such bought 'Photoshop elements' so that I can do much fuck-arsing about.
I am well chuffed insomuch as I got elements4 for just £16.50 as opposed to nearer £60.00 being that they've updated, now we're on elements5, but this retails for £69.95.
Ho-ho, such fun. Lamposts be-gone! Roadsigns, pah!
Examples to be posted as soon as.
@ 2006-11-28 – 10:02:38
Following His Blairness' abject and deep regrets, with regard to our part in the 'slave trade', I would like to add a little something of my own:
I would like to offer my deepest regrets and sympathy to the families of the bereaved for the actions of my fellow countrymen and for the actions of 'The Knights Templar' in 1187 who sacked the city of Acre, in the Holy land, killing all who were found. Some three-thousand innocent persons lost their lives due to an excess of religeous zeal.
SORRY.
I would also like to take this oportunity to decry the use of weapons of mass destruction during the battle of Agincourt, where we shot the arses off the French nobility and sundry european mercenaries with the English Longbow.
I will do my utmost to ensure that such an act of barbarism will not go unpunished.
SORRY.
there now, concience eased.
@ 2006-11-25 – 09:47:02
...yesterdays posting about the Dragon sausages, my early morning listening, radio 4, brought another interesting 'This is madness' piece.
It seems, and this is hot from radio 4, so its gotta be fact, that a lady in her little olde shoppe in the country somewhere, was advised by her local 'trading standards' officer that she had to amend her description of one of her items for sale to include the words 'may contain nuts'.
No bad thing I hear you exhale, until I tell you that the new description had to be added to....... 'Bird Peanuts'.
Yep, the sort of peanuts you buy loose to put in your bird feeder now have to tell us that they 'May contain nuts'
Madness.
There were another couple of examples but I can't for the life of me remember at the mo'
'Av a good weekend all.
D'poos. xxx.
@ 2006-11-24 – 10:30:42
Just what is happening in the world? I turn my back for a minute and not only have they moved the stars around, (Warren Zevon song) but there's a brou-ha about 'Dragon' sausages.
See link for full details.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6159630.stm
Good gracious, does Nanny Blair take us for fools? We are able to see through the guff. Next he'll be telling us that 'cottage pie' isn't made from old rural housing stock, being re-cycled, as it where, even when the pies in my local are clearly labled HOME made.
Penguin bars are made with essence of penguin, Lion bars also essence enhanced. This brings me round to a foodstuff that educated readers may have been waitng for, vis. SPOTTED DICK.
Its eponymous let me tell you.
@ 2006-11-24 – 10:08:20
...and noperverts, not my underware.(how very dare you).
From 1970, Joe Cocker with his version of that singalog favourite, 'Bird on a wire'
Superior in every way to Leonard Cohen's original, this from the album 'Mad dogs and Englishmen'
Dennypoos, a musical education in a blog.
@ 2006-11-20 – 13:34:46
What the f**k?
But I have at last found the memorial stone to Richard Parker in the church on Peartree green.
The thing is that parker was shipwrecked in the 1880's and his fellow sailors decided that the best way to survive was to eat him. Well he being only seventeen years old, I imagine he would be the tenderest of their lot.
Anyroad, I've a snap of his grave and a link to further details.
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/OTHERS/CSMS/OCHAL/mign.htm
If you wish to read the memorial stone , try the link to my flickr site.
I almost said 'gravestone' but as there was sod all of him left to bury, this would be incorrect and you know what a damned pedant I are.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennypoos/301872540/
Dennypoos, damned eduferkashunall or what?
@ 2006-11-18 – 09:46:59
..safe. Thank you for asking.
In the light of the recent revelations about the Provincial building society/bank having lost the details of 11 million customers, friends, I can let you sleep comfy in your beds sure in the knowledge that the Dennypoos coffers are safe.
I regret that I will not be sleeping comfy in my bed: as the Krugerands are a tad lumpy.
On another note, the Orchid flower spike continues, inexorably, upwards towards what I hope will be an impressive display at around christmas time.
Other things to note are:
I continue to inhabit the cemetery almost as often as the library.
I am beginning to think that the cemetery jaunts may be a precurser to something important,(though I know not what).
Told you! Fixated or what?
@ 2006-11-17 – 11:56:50
I've not been to blogland recently as I'm too busy making head and tail of my cemetery pictures and what happens when I get the chance to 'interact' with you guys, yep, I get fucking soaked to the skin.
Dell keyboards are OK with a little water ingress, yes?
@ 2006-11-13 – 10:09:12
.... in Southamptons cemetery gets a marble tomb festooned with angels.
@ 2006-11-13 – 10:05:38
Yep, irked yet again.
Reading another mediaeval whodunnit, this time by Michael Jecks, I came across, NO! not came across dammit. My eyeballs were assaulted by the word 'LUNCH', which leapt off the page as only a very page leapy thing could.
Now I have no particular aversion to the word 'lunch', but theres a time and a place for it (ho-ho). The time and place is not in the middle of a novel se in AD1297 .
Imagine , if you will, three mud spattered travelers on horseback, who having riden hard across the moors, chance upon a man of the cloth.
Is he:
a. Likely to ask them to tarry awhile, rest their horses and join him in a mug of ale.
b. a clergyman used to the company of socialite American women, such that he asks," as morning is well spent,will you take lunch?".
Fuck me backwards with a broomstick! He may as well have said, "come on guys, lets do lunch, there's a nifty little Tavern here where you can get a salad to die for"
But I kid you not, the word lunch does crop up in this book. Surely to goodness his editor, sub-editor, proof reader or somesuch should have picked up on this.
I did, sneakilly, check my dictionary to see if I was the one being a knob, but I arn't.
Writers...........I've shit 'em.
@ 2006-11-11 – 10:16:37
Oh there you are!
Sick note to follow but suffice it to say I've bin struck down with the 'dreaded lurgy'.
This to most people would amount to a heavy cold but as a bloke it is FLU, minimum being an eastern variant, I'm thinking Mongolian
but Tibetan would do at a pinch.
Anyroad-up, it has given me the chance to do a bit more reading than usual, what with the Midsomer Murderers having a holiday and Lovejoy similarly absent. Books of choice being Novels rather than my usual 'improving books'.
Anyroad-up again, reading one of Bernard Cornwell's yarns I found out that if, during the French revolution, you were unfortunate enough to be guillotined, it was said that you had, "Sneezed in the basket".
The derevation of this phrase being simply that when the blade comes down and slices off the miscreants head, it makes a noise like someone sneezing.........tishooooo!
Dennypoos, always a learning wosname.
@ 2006-11-03 – 10:35:15
Well I'd never have believed:
Well here's another, fresh off the skip-rescued stoathole 7" B&W battery-powered telly BBC Ceefax this am - you're never more than 100 metres away from an immigrant knocking a nail into a plank of wood.
Makes you think dunnit!........ or not.
@ 2006-11-03 – 10:07:56
Well, as I am all things to all men, and a few women as well, I can tell you that I can call myself a plant doctor.
Witness the picture below: a neglected Phalenopsis when I got it and look at it now.
There's every chance of it being in bloom for Christmas
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