Ultimate spin.

In today's Observer:
'We only call ourselves the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership because if we called it the Grey Squirrel Annihilation League people might be a bit less sympathetic,'
What a wonderful quote to build a lesson around!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/19/red-squirrels-protection
for full article

A couple of whimsies

From Father Ted (Dougall, who else?)
"As I said last time, 'it won't happen again'"
And the wonderful Seasick Steve's track : "I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left"
Brilliant!

Idling

A sign of the times that I haven't enough to do is that I'm reactivating this blog. I urge you to follow this link to a Guardian article about Schiller's failure to have the German equivalent of a TV licence. I particularly like the portrait - what is he watching? - and its caption which led me to suggest "Dead Portrait's Society" as an alternative title.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/02/germany.theatre



To ring the changes from "the book" and snowglobes, I thought I would try for the visual surreal or bizarre with my new camera. The two photos here represent a modest start from a recent trip to Brussels, home of surrealist Magritte. I particularly liked the Man from Atlantis sculpture/fountain,