Saturday 4:14 p.m.
I went for a walk to the Botanics this afternoon. It said in the paper that forty trees had blown down last week. When I was there I remembered reading about a writer - might have been Joseph Conrad, but maybe not - who had himself lashed to the main mast of a sailing ship so he could watch a typhoon. What an amount of roaring and crashing there must have been in the Botanics during the storm last week!! I would have loved to have been there.
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Sad to see so many broken trees.
Being in a good storm is amazing, but better watched from inside, safe and warm.
I say! Creative use of the camera's date facility.
Good idea of Conrad's, but you'd want a bottle of rum lashed to your gob.
I say!
The storm was last year, according to the camera. Are you a tad behind the times? Did you doze off for 11 months?
MM III
Albert? and Mingin'! To take photies from the past you need a special app. Make me an offer and I might see you one! Hotboy
Marie! Was a lovely day today, but I missed most of it! Hotboy
I say!
Is it true that in windy old Jockland they are talking about having a referendum on what question(s) to ask in a referendum about the future swing of the government?
Surely the only question that needs be asked is this:
If you have, or may have at some time in the future, a son or daughter, would you like him/her to open the batting for England, or open the batting for Scotland?
MM III
Mingin'! Everyone who likes creekit and can't speak the gaelic is being asked to leave. That's the question about the question. Are they going quietly or not? Hotboy
I say!
And is it also true that once they have completed the repair of the tramlines along Princes Street, having screwed them up the first time even before they were ever used, that they are going to declare Princes Street a traffic free zone, and divert the trams along George Street, so that they can dig that one up as well?
Once Jockland has declared UDI, I expect we'll get far more of such worthy decisions, such as whether to build a fourth Forth Bridge when the third Forth Bridge starts to fall down.
It will all keep us very amused, here in Kalimbuka.
MM III
Mingin'! I'm not sure if the fourth Forth Bridge will do any better than third Forth Bridge, but nobody's quite sure where Forth is, which makes fording it with a putative fifth Forth Bridge seem even less affordable. Hotboy. p.s. If there's a Firth of Forth, is there a Thirth of Forth?
If you google Firth Of Fifth you find some great non-Brian music.
I say!
You'll know the answer to this one, which was discussed in The Hostile the other night.
Someone claimed that when Jockland declares UDI, due to the fact that no-one can agree on what question to ask who, when and by whom, they intend to make Shang-A-Lang, by The Bay City Rollers, the new national anthem.
Is that correct?
MM III
Mingers, a referendum for the anthem might choose Bye Bye Baby.
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