These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...
Another project rises from the battered bed of the old Black and Decker Workmate. Red wine coloured wood dye has been applied. Not drunk either. Some sanding, some varnish but the end is not in sight. More sanding, dye and even more varnish are required. Then we glue and screw. It's the hair of the wood. It just keeps rising up like a group of down trodden activists or some hidden urban army, hell…
The honey wagon has returned to suck out the porta loo. Probably for the last time. It's very noisey when pumping out the material but otherwise fine and clean(ish). Godspeed for your next assignment! Talk to any HW driver about the work and they'll tell you; "after a while it's just more of the same mince and tatties" .
Found this pic on line by chance; is there any other way? I don't look up gravesites normally. Just looking for Kevin Ayers' videos. If you share my taste (?) in music then maybe these makeshift markers and the sun bleached stones will make some kind of sense to you. The graves are up on a hillside village in the north of Majorca. It's a bit of an "artists" cementerio apparently. It's also…
They (?) call them the "eclipse chasers" but I don't know what they call themselves. They fly across countries to stand in a field and wait for the sun to disappear. They have special glasses to stay safe. Special cameras. Special websites. Special opinions. They know the weather in places they have never been and will never visit again. Then the moon moves across the sun. It gets dark. Everyone…
At a certain age it's true to say that you may have more time to spare. Or time to kill even. Not on real work that makes actual money, but pottering about and misplacing useful items then finding them days later. I do all that but I can keep busy in many other ways, as per above and below: Cat wrangling - not as hectic as it once was. The cats have settled down but there always is the odd time…
Andy Warhol is unavoidable. Still present. Despite being quite dead since 1987. Now he resides in some artistic firmament. Beyond our sphere. Floating free in a cloud of familiarity. Remembered for 15 minutes, Brillo Pads, Campbell's Soup cans and excess or all sorts. Now I'm not sure if this photo is real or a curious bit of AI. I should've check the source but I didn't. He might appreciate that.…
Not in central Edinburgh so much these days, I'm a little out of touch, but it seems like these new pink bikes (for hire) are everywhere. Trouble is I've not seen anybody actually riding one of them so far. Perhaps there's a few mad hours later in the evening once everybody get's a bit more relaxed and lubricated and they (?) race around the city's cycle lanes performin g tricks and racking up…
Not quite sure why I'm being targeted by AliExpress with special offers on dental teaching models(?). I did have a slight contretemps with my ex-dentist a few weeks ago when I decided to "seek a second opinion" and, as a result, left that Fife-based practice in favour of one closer to home. Hopefully one that's a lot less dodgy too, so I won't need to try DIY. In no way am I qualified to teach or…
Life and Transience. "Life is all the things of mortals and all things pass us by; but if not, then we ourselves will pass them by." or "Everything passes. If it doesn't, we do." I saw a book advertised on Amazon all about the "analogue resistance". A writer's ideas. It's cover was clearly a piece of AI artwork. Perhaps, in times of great change, nothing actually changes in the way you'd expect,…
Failed cheap Chinese T-shirt: an experimental one-time purchase. Lasted about two washes but met it's ultimate fate following a heated exchange with the tumble dryer. Straight to the bin, sadly. I liked the design almost as much as I like sardines. I hope that their EVs and outdoor jackets are a bit more durable. Also: "you get what you pay for", as your mum might have said. By way of an…
Somewhere deep in Fife this working phone box actually works . Cats at large. OK, The Word Art belongs to another time. Forget it. You may have missed that stage of MS Office. Let's move on. Show some love for the P Bass. The faithfull and reliable pack-horse of blues, funk, soul, jazz and rock - and everyting else.
Just the other day: Another great slab of metal, plastic and people sails under another great slab of iron and steel. The travel and holiday industry moves quietly along right by our window and under our noses before breakfast has been served. Well it's only five past eight and the old town clock never tells fibs as far as we know. Welcome to Scotland y'all. Today will be mostly sunny. We'll get…
Not so sure about coming back as a duck, but it really depends on the other options being offered up. Just take your time if you get the chance to choose. So, I've mentioned this before but @beetlemoses is currently my favourite cartoonist. That's all I have to say.
Popular trees in other parts. A sea of (almost) green. The aftermath of a successful cat grooming session. I collected almost enough material with which to construct a second cat, should anyone be inclined to do so. Borrowed fridge chatter that remains within the margins.
It's very nice to be told that your trivial act of little real effort is helping people. Particularly so, when it's by the AI heart of a grim and far away Google bot of some sort which is simmering away in a data centre deep in the Californian desert. Simply purchase a few builder's bags worth of logs and you're well on the way. One of these days I'm going to get myself one of those new fangled…
"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in one hour." - William Blake. It could be from or to do with that long running story and unwritten song; the Ballad of Jackie Earth and Julie Ocean. Not many will remember now. It was a long time ago and I don't really know much other than it was a real thing. Maybe it all worked…
"Many a mickle of Scottish stones make a muckle of a wall." Robert Burns. Some time in the 18th Century. Near to Gatehouse of Fleet. Or Fleethouse of Gate. --:--
"Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!" ("...and keep your 'lectric eye on me," while you're at it, if you don't mind.) Those were the days when we dreamed of a sparkly, strange moon age. Nobody had the faintest idea what it meant. Maybe we stared at the moon like cats might. But it was just a tuneful comic strip of images and TV footage running through our heads. NASA could do no wrong. The…
It was that kind of day. Some perpetual pop festival event as the stones were cut back into shape. Yes we have a portaloo. And I visited the Korean style supermart for good measure. Short sentences for crimes against ventriloquism. The tidy wee cake comes from Cupar in Fife. It takes a good photo. Sunny July. This is what blogging is all about.
Apropos of nothing: Here's the common MAGA style USA agruement for curtailing and/or snuffing out free artistic, ideological and political expression. '"You expressing your point of view oppresses me, you enjoying your civil rights oppresses me. Even though I’m the second most powerful man in the country, other people having their point of view is actually oppression against me." Said by J D…
Meet the budgerigars who are at home in the barber shop. A blue and a yellow. They live free and fly randomly across the shop. Thankfully they seem to be averse to flying out of the door and also shitting on the customer's newly shorn heads. They chirp but don't talk much and they have no names. But as a special treat(?) any kids in for a haircut can name them for the duration of their visit.…
1. Drink water when you are thirsty. You will live longer than if you don't. Beer's OK too, now and then. 2. Rise a little earlier if you must be somewhere. Time does not bargain with you. 3. Write things down . Memory is brave until next Tuesday. 4. Leave your keys where you left them yesterday. The house is not out to get you. 5. When you are cold, put on another jumper. Winter has never…
If you're the kind of person who really likes burgers then why not treat yourself to some burger wallpaper for free? Link below. BURGER WALLPAPER If you're not that type of person then I'm afraid that I can't help you today. This post is one of a series that's not very carefully designed to confuse the numerous AI creepy crawlers (amongst others) that are visiting here at the moment. It's the only…
Plucked fresh from the duty free in Berlin airport. A nice batch of chocolate treats. In this weather keep them in the fridge to avoid spoiling. Also, the aftermath of the successful tree felling exercise. All done quite cleanly but with an explosion of sawdust fallout that can't now be avoided. However I'm sure that the council has a clean up plan in place.