Infotainment for Aardvarks.
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...you can't get decent dolphin stickers.
I used to give gold stars to my young piano pupils, but the particularly talented ones received a dolphin sticker.
These used to be freely available from my local Woolies.
If anyone can link me up to a good regular online source I would be nocturnally grateful.
(Don't bother with eBay as there's only garbage being offered there.)
No, I'm not calling someone a fatso, read that again!
Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the south west. Formerly the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on August 4, 1984 by President Thomas Sankara to mean "the land of upright people" (or "upright land") in Mossi and Dioula, the major native languages of the country. Independence from France came in 1960. Governmental instability during the 1970s and 1980s was followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Several hundred thousand farm workers migrate south every year to Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana in search of paid labour. The inhabitants of Burkina Faso are known as Burkinabè or Burkinabé (pronounced [burkiːnəˈbeː]).
Thanks to the Neoworx facility, I can find out where my visitors are based.
phyred (obviously) means being dropped by a former blogging amigo. Down to 98 and more breathing space. Phew!
Mr B
George Bernard BumbleBee,
Went to the Zoo.
What it was he did while there,
I shall leave up to you.
Zn
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Did he see a monkey’s red bum?
Thanks to IFR for showing me this page.
Of course, in a manner of speaking, what we are all doing here is 'publishing'. It's just about 1,000 times quicker than 'normal' methods and we can always delete things if we have a sudden mindset swerve.
One of my fellow students was called Michael Turtle. He was a 'first study percussionist and second study pianist' (I was first study composition, second study piano). He actually premiered a work of mine for solo vibraphone which has been played by a dozen or more soloists by now.
Anyway, here's the story. I overheard some heavy rock being played in 'the concert hall' one early evening and wandered in only to find MT playing bass guitar with a handful of other musicians. During a gap, I asked him if he could really play bass guitar or if he was 'busking'. He said, no, he really could play it! I asked him to demonstrate his abilities by playing the scale of C sharp melodic minor.
Three weeks later, he gave up music and went into the financial sector. He currently boasts zero Google hits.
What am I picking up from the supermarket for you this evening?
...and welcome to another fun-filled day of blogging infotainment.
It's been all go here at 'the edge'. Many things to sort out. Paper to tear up, filing to do (Hello Mr Bisley) and e-correspondence to attend to.
...and what of the mysterious Mr B I hear you ask? Mr B, where are you this evening? Lounging around in a den of iniquity by any chance?
Here is your puzzly quiz for this evening. What can you deduce from the following sentence?
My aunt used to describe white sugar as poison.
How long does it take to charge an iPod through your PC? Is it better to 'buy the charger' separately and do it that way? Who can send me the best price for a separate charger?
P.S. I am not leaving the country just yet.
P.S.S. Does Scotland count?
Thanks to the miracle of web forwarding, I am now getting quite a bit of value from the various domains I own.
www.creativeexplosion.co.uk [note the 2 e's]
www.febland.eu
...are simply redirected to 'real' websites. Up until I can find further friendly webdesigners to create some more pages for me.
...but I fancy some kippers.
Another highly successful day here on the 'edge' of civilization and the week is panning out nicely.
What actually 'happened' today. Not sure really. It was one of those days where time just floats by with not too heavy an agenda to fill.
I managed to get a haircut in at 15.00 although the rest of the day is a litle more sketchy.
Think I managed to retain my reputation there as a belletrist.
Alf Peterson
...and add our nutty cricket star.
There is a piece of music by Debussy which translates either as veils or sails. No one is sure which.
think 'cakes'.
Who is that German we keep seeing again and again?
...of the First Test match (which I have blogged about elsewhere on this website).
Keeping in mind that it has been an intense day, I am actually quite chilled at this point in time.
Next week looks interesting on paper. I'm kicking off the week with an early Ocado experiment. A bit of a treat having the shopping delivered straight to the door.
We have a division one bridge match on Tuesday preceded by a snip to the upper regions mid-afternoon.
for you jolly lot, I have actually had quite a constructive day consisting mainly of tearing up pieces of paper (no, not banknotes, obviously) and November Spring-cleaning.
I have also been 'interviewed' through a chat facility by a fellow blogger, which will be reproduced here (in a highly edited form no doubt) at some point in the distant future.
I even did something slightly computery. I own creativexplosion.co.uk and creativeexplosion.co.uk and the two e version now goes straight to the one e version via the miracle of web forwarding.
Another highly intellectual evening last night discussing the merits of various historical figures. Mr B threw a spanner in the works when he brought up the achievements of one General von Schmelling.
...and in other news, the 'Bisley' has arrived in one piece and I now have ten slidey doors worth of filing cabinet to play with.
Spinning Tannhäuser tonight. Very dramatic stuff, no doubt you will enjoy the review at some point in the near future.
Surfing the net (as you do of a Friday evening), I came upon this fascinating site for Monopoly nerds.
Here is a genuine email I received from Mr B while I was out card-pushing earlier this evening.
Moo moo,
Moo moo moo Saturday. Moo moo moo. Moo moo. (I am a cow) Moo.
Moo moo moo moo.
Mr. Moo
...but I do not know what it is.
YM = Znethru msn = Jonfeb19
This message will be deleted in 48 hours.
...of a filing cabinet. Shiny and black from Ryman's with ten drawers and a full metal jacket. (I'm even getting a penny change from an Hawaii). I bet you're all extremely jealous now.
Can anyone guess the meaning of Mr B's neologism?
1) Bank
2) Chinese Tea
3) Sieve
I had a solid 3 1/2 hrs sleep last night and decided to wake up today to see if mornings are all they're cracked up to be.
This morning I will mainly be working on my music with a brief break to visit Haitch Ess Bee Cee and irritate the tellers there.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5042285.html
Teaching starts at 4pm and I have now sorted out the Harvey/cakes situation. In the end, we went for the mini cadbury's chocolate rolls.
Can I recommend Difflam for any of you suffering from a sore throat. However, don't gargle with it while watching something like this (which is precisely what happened to me when the green liquidy stuff went everywhere).
(B3,ep.2 - 'Ink & Incapability')
G: How goes it, Blackadder?
E: Not all that well, sir.
G: Well, let's have a look...(reads) "Medium-sized insectivore with
protruding nasal implement." (pauses) Doesn't sound much like a bee to me.
E: (shouts) It's an aardvark! Can't you see that, Your Highness? It's a
bloody aardvark!!
G: Oh dear -- still on `aardvark', are we?
E: Yes, I'm afraid we are. And if I ever meet an aardvark, I'm going to
step on its damn protruding nasal implement until it couldn't suck
up an insect if its life depended on it.
Just wanted to get this out in the open esp. as I have just been given Dawkins' new book "The God Delusion" by a close friend.
...still, at least I have my memories!
Dining out tonight and will try to add another valuable entry to my Restaurants of N.W.London list.
As ever, I start the week with a massive list of things to do. I am pleased to report that by 2 a.m. Tuesday I have accomplished precisely none of the items on my list. This means that Tuesday (when I finally surface) is going to have even more potential for failure i.e. there will be even more things to do and less time to achieve them in.
(Remind me to ask Harvey about cakes for Thursday).
Actually, fairly uneventful although I'm still up at nearly 2 a.m. - some sort of malfunction is going on at the Mr Picassohead website. I have created a few mini masterworks there but for some unknown reason they won't 'save' from my computer. Maybe I'll try again from Mr B's computer later on in the week.
Hey Mr B., I've had a visitor from Poland! Do you think it might be a descendant of Paderewski?
