Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fred.]

That's quite the find to have forgotten about, and then still not recognise when you unpack it!

[fsn]

That's quite the find to have forgotten about, and then still not recognise when you unpack it!

I know!    I'd forget about it ... but I've already done that. 

[Raider4]

It's the first of August.

And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.

Why?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's the first of August.

And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.

Why?

Australian second Xmas (it's a thing) and

[O Dinas Powys]

It's the first of August.

And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.

Why?

So you can appreciate* them as artistic eneavours without all the Christmas schmaltz and bullshit getting it the way? 

* Level of artistic merit entirely up to you to decide... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

So you can appreciate* them as artistic eneavours without all the Christmas schmaltz and bullshit getting it the way? 

* Level of artistic merit entirely up to you to decide... 

With that selection....me tinks na. 

[Last Hussar]

Makes sense, Christmas is just a repurposing of the Northern European mid-winter festival; these are 'It's cold and dark, and the stored food run out soon, lets have a party.'

[O Dinas Powys]

Makes sense, Christmas is just a repurposing of the Northern European mid-winter festival; these are 'It's cold and dark, and the stored food run out soon, lets have a party.'

"Gadzooks! The stores are gettng a bit thin!  Quick Cousin Noel, come here and eat your fill..." 

"Yule, make sure the woodpile is replenished..."   

[Last Hussar]

Not so much as run out as goes bad.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

How is everyone's Saturday?
I'm at work and it's gone quiet... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Part from my achillis tendon protesting, the two dogs barking from over the road.....fine   

[Orcs]

How is everyone's Saturday?
I'm at work and it's gone quiet... 

I did 23 years working 24 hour shifts ad the word beginning with Q was not allowed to be spoken. Bit like not whistling  on a ship.  AS inevitable once some one had used it all hell broke loose.

[fsn]

Simultaneously trying to do some painting and listening to the Napoleonic Wars Podcast - this episode is about sexy things.   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Josephine?
Marie-Loiuse?
Harriet Arbothnot?
Angela Burdett-Coutts?
Lady Caroline Capel?
Lady Francis Weddeeburn-Webster?
Georgina Lennox?
Lady Francis Shelly?
Lady Caroline Lamb?
Lady Charlotte Grenville?
Marianne Patterson?

[Orcs]

Knowing FSN, he is probably imagining Anne Hathaway in a Napoleonic era bodice............ I don't think we want to know any more of his imaginings

[fsn]

 

Meanwhile ... this is what I was listening to. (Listener discretion is advised.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYBKGg4lJyc&t=2678s

[Ithoriel]

Well, my, Saturday was a series of minor but irritating disasters.

Starting with my usual early morning half litre of instant coffee and a buttermilk pancake which I had taken to consume in front of my PC (I know, I know, very bad practice).

Can you imagine what happened next? 

Probably not. I picked up the plate with the pancake on it and the plate snapped in half, for no apparent reason. Leaving me holding half a plate and no pancake. Reversing the computer chair to recover the errant debris I ran over it instead. Fortunately I have a rubber mat to protect the carpet so scraping fragments of pancake off the floor was not as much of a chore as it might have been.

The day did not get better thereafter. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Sh1T appen

[Raider4]

This year is Rail 200 - celebrating the birth of the modern railway 200 years age.

The problem is I remember Rail 150.

And suddenly Im feeling old. Very old. And very down. Not good. 

Hopefully this will pass soon. 

[Last Hussar]

I did 23 years working 24 hour shifts ad the word beginning with Q was not allowed to be spoken. Bit like not whistling  on a ship.  AS inevitable once some one had used it all hell broke loose.

Same at my place.