Wednesday - March 02, 2011
I won!
I don’t know if many of you are fans of Graphic Audio, but I’m here to tell you that I won a freebie GraphicAudio product. I have absolutely no idea of what they are going to send. Probably some product line that hasn’t been selling well.
But I’m on their email list and am a customer. Last week I got an email stating that the first twenty people who scored 90% on the quiz would get a gift from GraphicAudio. I took the test; it was about Anya Creed and the Rogue Angel series. I scored 100%. Not because I’d listened to the GraphicAudio books. I’ve read about 15 books in the series. I will say I was appalled to find out that the books were published, admittedly under another imprint, by Harlequin Romance.
Back to Graphic Audio. I highly recommend the Deathlands series. And the derivative Outlanders series. The Rogue Angel series is good, but I liked the books better. If there are any Simon R. Green fans out there, they did a very good job on ‘Blue Moon Rising’. Blue Moon Rising is hilarious while still being very serious. Our hero rescues the dragon from the princess. But that happens later. The first clue that this is abnormal fantasy is that our hero rides a unicorn. Remember, we’re talking about a Prince here. And remember what legends say about who can ride a unicorn? And did I mention that the unicorn is gay?
Regardless, at the end of the book our hero, Rodney, is no longer qualified to ride a unicorn! That’s the princess’ fault. But she and the dragon are still with him. The same dragon he rescued from the Princess.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 26, 2011
a mild rant if you will, on the subject of just one of many far left loony tunes.
I have a problem referring to some ppl as liberal. It kind of justifies them or makes em appear as reasonable to some degree when in fact, the folks BMEWS refers to as liberal are out and out lefties with a socialist agenda. We know there’s nothing reasonable about em. Might be an exception here and there. And I even question if all of them really wholly believe their BS, or just have made it their life’s work to undermine Western culture and traditions for reasons we can’t yet imagine.
For example.
There is a very far left loony tune with a screechy voice (to my ear) named Polly Toynbee. Yes, she is related to that famous name. When I say left, think Trotsky,Marx, Lenin, cos she swallows the entire line. She is a committed red.
Well, no surprise she writes for a left wing paper and in a recent article cited in I think in the Telegraph, (?) she referred to the current PM’s ‘Big Society’ as a “busted flush.” I don’t care. I’m not sure a lot of Brits buy his BS either. (Big Society)
Interesting how those letters are so interchangeable.
So then, speaking of being busted our lefty lady ain’t doing too badly when it comes to that awful capitalist stuff called money.
Her husband picked up a nice $50,000.00 after he was sacked from the Audit Commission. And .. they live in a $2,000,000 house.
Being much concerned about how much money other people are making, because of course there’s no doubt in her mind that each according to their means etc., she said “everyone’s salary should be made public.” Except of course, and you knew this was coming, except hers.
When she was asked about it in an interview, she refused to answer the question.
Ain’t that typical?
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Permalink • Saturday - February 19, 2011
In which …. the wife and I visit a pub in Crawley, Hampshire, Eng. The Fox and Hounds
The day after Valentine’s day, the wife and I revisited a pub we hadn’t been to in a couple of years. Only approx. five miles away from us, I don’t know why we hadn’t made the effort to go back sooner. Could have been the prices which then were fairly high. It was a last minute thought to go out for lunch HERE.
I know I have too many photos here, and believe it or not, I did a lot of editing and culling before posting these to share with everyone. The village of Crawley is so darn pretty and so peaceful looking, it really was hard to resist not putting in everything. Even the bad pix.
There is more then one Crawley, England. This one is in the county of Hampshire, AND, it is recorded in The Doomsday Book. (The Domesday Book is a great land survey from 1086, commissioned by William the Conqueror to assess the extent of the land and resources being owned in England at the time, and the extent of the taxes he could raise. The information collected was recorded by hand in two huge books, in the space of around a year. William died before it was fully completed.) Crawley has one main street and one other side street. There are no convenience stores and the FOX and HOUNDS Pub is it for lunch and dinners. There is one ancient church, St. Mary’s Church.
To own a home in Crawley takes some doing. First of all, you won’t see many listings. There isn’t any new building going on and hopefully there won’t be but with the push for homes in the “affordable range,” who can predict the future?
Crawley is in what is called “The Stockbrokers Belt.” These are VERY costly homes.
In the spring, many of these houses open their gardens for public viewing with all proceeds going to various charities. Some of those gardens are nothing short of spectacular. And please note that in this flower and garden mad country, the gardens are NOT designed by professionals. Folks here take a great deal of pride in their home designed and worked gardens. A late friend of my wife’s mom with an eye for flowers and all things growing, worked her place even when she was using a walker. Up the road from us in a small area of a few houses, I once saw an old lady with oxygen working her patch. No kidding. These people are very serious on the subject.
Unfortunatley, some of my pix, in fact most, were not taken in the spring or summer. I took all these photos a few years ago when the wife took us (her mum was still living and able to get out with help, to lunch here.
I took a walk around the place and even went a bit outside the village itself to shoot a house we passed on the way into the village. It reminded me of a Shakespearian kind of house and frankly it even looked like it could be haunted. So after the wife found parking, I walked back to the place and up a hill to reach it. Wasn’t long before I was stopped by someone asking me why I was taking photos here.
I told em because there were no places like this in the California desert. That seemed to allay any fears I was casing the place. Which in any even looked then and still looks today, uninhabited.
Crawley today looks exactly as it did when I first saw the place about 25 years ago. But the Fox and Hounds has changed hands even since I have been here (2004), and I can’t say it’s as good as it was on the visit when these pix were shot a few years ago. Only two choices for salad dressing, and no menus in hard copy. Had to order from written posts on blackboard. You can see it at the link above. The waitress said their new menus were being printed. Used to be the things posted were items that weren’t all on the menu. Still, there is something I’m going back to try. But if disappointed again we won’t return. Frustrating however not to be able to have Blue Cheese Dressing. And their tarter sauce was not at all to our taste. It tasted like it had too much vinegar, and the wife’s scallops were she says, like something left too long in the freezer. It’s the second pub outing for us where the tarter was more like, like, ? I can’t even think of an example. I’m sure there are folks who like it, we didn’t. Next time I have a meal out where tarter is needed, instead I’ll ask for a side of Mayo and a Lemon. That works okay for me.
Having said all of that, I want to go back and try their Mushroom Stroganoff. But no salad. Even if it comes with it. Which I doubt. They still bring fresh hot bread to the table, with enough (real) butter to cover only half of what they bring to table. Wife says what with the big brother attitudes here on health, we we lucky to get any butter to begin with. And maybe that’s why there wasn’t any Blue Cheese.
OK, enough of that. Here are my photos and welcome all to Crawley, Hants. That’s the abbreviation for Hampshire.
It’s named The Pond House.
And for very inexplicable reasons, I don’t think I ever got more then this one shot in the summer. Or maybe one or two.
I hate the spring and summers for photos cos there’s always too damn many ppl around to spoil the scenery.
Here are a few of the homes to be seen in this village.
This ppl is a Victorian water tower. I guess they thought a water tank was unsightly and so this was their answer.
LINK, INFO ST. MARY’S CHURCH, CRAWLEY
a Shakespearian kind of house and frankly it even looks like it could be haunted. It’s about a quarter mile before coming to the Pond at the village start. I thought a half mile. Wife says quarter mile. Since I had to walk uphill, I originally thought it felt like a mile.
All houses shown here btw ... are on the main street of the village. There are other houses tucked away in places you can not go. The lady who helps my wife do things in our little patch that wife can’t do anymore, does some work in the summer evenings helping an owner who she says has a huge house here, not seen from any road and behind walls and gate. She describes it as massive.
I call it Crawley’s White House and in the summer, you can’t even see it when everything is in bloom in the front.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 12, 2011
Talking to Mom
I was talking to Mom this evening. Not something I recommend. Mom’s have a way of making you feel guilty, even if you didn’t do anything.
One thing we talked about was music. We agreed. Music today sucks. In honor of past music, here are a couple of Harry Chapin songs…
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 01, 2011
a few more photos and good night all ….
Looking at the weather thingy and seeing 26 degrees for NJ, I decided to post s few spring shots I got close to home.
Sadly, the apple trees, all of them, were cut down when the barbaric new neighbors moved in and torn down the 20’s cottage next door. Every tree and all the fruit producing trees, gone. There was one tree I’d never seen or heard of before. It had something that looked like and was the size of a cherry. But not the dark red kind you think of when you see the word cherry. This was lighter in color, and didn’t taste anything like a cherry. It tasted like a ripe plum. But it wasn’t. A good portion of it overlapped on our side for years and years and years. And a beautiful mountain ash. Great shade tree. Gone.
Anyway, one day long before that house was even on the market, I was taken with the blossoms and thought it would make for a pleasing photo.
Here’s an example of what’s now gone forever. Vandals. Barbarians.
Drove to a village (Wherwell) a few miles from us. All of them old and a river runs right through it. Ancient village church that ppl still attend. Really nice place but very expensive. BTW ... you can be pretty sure that the upstairs floor in this place is no longer level. It would surprise me greatly if it was, because in visiting some other old places like this but from inside, when trying to walk across the floor upstairs, you were still climbing just going from one side of the room to the other.
Notice how small those windows are and how few. Most of the houses in the village are medieval. There are strict rules that apply as to what you may or may not do re. painting or alterations.
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I got a bit tired of the mayhem and loony tune happenings and thought, why not post a few photos I’ve taken here and there since moving here. Haven’t been able to get out and travel much in the last year. Hope if things ok maybe I can do again. In the meantime ....
Had the opportunity to visit the Jane Austen house and museum a couple of years ago. Wish I could get back there again. I missed a few photos I should have had but for lack of experience. Some were out of focus, but I didn’t know that till I got back home (in a driving rain and soaked to the skin) and saw them on my pc. You won’t see those and I’ve no idea why I kept them. Got lucky with the visit, hardly anyone there and the rain that was threatening all day didn’t happen untill after returning to home territory. Where the sky opened up while I was walking the half mile, uphill, to the point where I could get a ride home.
I’d do it again happily cos I enjoyed the day and the history.
The Austen site is located in Chawton, England.
Obviously, the dining room. I wasn’t supposed to be taking pictures but didn’t see the sign. I really didn’t. I shot without flash which is why some other shots didn’t come out well. And no time to fiddle with manual settings.
This has nothing whatever to do with Jane Austen but I got lucky and got what I hope is a good pix of a beautiful flower on another tour I was on of a manor house garden.
One of these days I really will learn how to post pix that you guys can enlarge. I am slow to learn new tricks I guess. Depressing.
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Permalink • Monday - January 31, 2011
afternoon dinner at the golden lion in front of a warm fire. nice change from everyday blahs.
Wife and I had a great pub dinner this afternoon since we had to be out and about anyway.
The portions they give you here are ENORMOUS! Brits are always saying how surprised they are when visiting the states and how overly large our portions are. Well, based on this place we have nothing on them.
The Golden Lion is only about 15 minutes from our house. We’ve been spending a bit too much time indoors and haven’t eaten out together in a year or so. That’s cos I’m lazy and addicted to this machine and if not here then I’m buried in a book. So anyway ... I thought I would share this very nice experience.
If you click the link, be sure to see the links on their site. Beer garden and Welcome page especially. Of course, the front didn’t look like this today, being Feb. 1st and not flower power weather. But it was still inviting. We got a table near the fireplace. Very cozy it was.
Click on the photo and step inside for a look.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 26, 2011
Stouffer’s Lasagna…
Last week my wife either insulted me or pointed out that I’ve not been cooking.
She brought home a frozen Stouffer’s Lasagna.
It’s an insult, I tell you!
So she baked it, and I tried some of it. Blahhh!!
Good if all you like is pasta, a little bit of cheese, and lots of unidentified red sauce. No meat, no veggies, nothing else. Couldn’t even taste any garlic.
If she wanted me to cook my signature lasagna, she should have just asked instead of wasting money on that crap. (A waste it was too… I just threw out the leftovers of it...1/3rd of the pan. The cats wouldn’t even touch it.)
So now I’m cooking up my lasagna. Based on the old ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’ recipe, as opposed to the new ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’. The difference? The new ‘New BHCB’ pretty much eschews things like eggs. Don’t want to promote cholesterol. The recipes therefore suck. I’m sorry I wasted money on the new ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’.
Anyway, my recipe is based on the old ‘New Better Homes’ recipe. My changes are to double the onions and garlic, add a 1/2lb of sautéed mushrooms, and green peppers. I also only use fresh ground pork. How do I know if it is fresh? I buy my pork from Jean every Saturday at the local farmer’s market. That pork was on the hoof a couple of days before I bought it.
If anyone is really interested, I’ll post my recipe. I’m just blogging about this because my wife either insulted me, or nudged me into cooking again. Or both.
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Permalink • Thursday - November 25, 2010
THIS IS A SPECIAL POST FOR A FEW BMEWS PEOPLE WHO REMEMBERED THE LADY
Yesterday, I posted the obit for this beautiful woman. But at the time I didn’t have this photo. In fact, I didn’t find it on line either.
The Telegraph ran her obit today and used this photo in the hard copy, but not on line. So I called them today and politely asked if they would email me this shot, which I love. Well, as things turned out I ended up having to use my scanner anyway, as all they had at the time was the entire page which came as a pdf.
So anyway ... at least we few have this photo and I am glad of it. I think you guys will be too.
INGRID PITT
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Permalink • Sunday - November 14, 2010
just some personal stuff and eye candy on a damnp,cold very foggy morning
Drew is busy doing computer stuff ...
And I’ll try and get back later. He has my sympathy as I had a problem or two myself yesterday. Like, program not responding. Well duh. I knew that. And then server error.
Here’s what sometimes works and of course if Drew’s puter is down he won’t be able to read the good advice.
Lots of swearing and even make up new cuss words as ya go. Then a good punch as shown above. It doesn’t actually work too well but can make you feel better and in control of things. Even if you aren’t.
So, I leave for awhile with this photo I had to scan from a paper that doesn’t allow free access on line. Did my best with the software I have. Even with better software I’m not sure I have the knack of understanding how to use it all properly. Sometimes the instructions aren’t always straightforward.
And they hardly ever make allowances for aged blockheads.
The young lady isn’t an actress or a model. She’s a college student and the paper used her for her obvious good looks, in an article about the challenges facing students in today’s economic environment. Wish I had access to a better copy because even in the newspaper where quality isn’t always great, she really stands out. And this time their quality was really very good.
Her name is CLAIRE ABRAHAMS. She’s a student at Cambridge here in the UK. She deserves better then my effort here. She has a very high wow factor in the hard copy.
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Permalink • Monday - November 08, 2010
A thought before retiring …
Severe weather alert as Britain battered by 70mph winds, snow in the North and up to 3 inches of rain across the South
I just had to post that headline so Drew wouldn’t feel any colder considering our weather thingy says it’s 52 here. I’m glad it isn’t.
My real reason for popping in here is as follows.
Last night, too tired to read but not sleep, I turned on the radio and caught another one of those panel shows. Yeah. Mistake. I always get worked up when folks here talk about the Tea Party in negative terms as though they have the whole thing down pat.
One fellow who is now living in the USA, talks like he’s an expert on American life. Anyway, this line ALWAYS comes up no matter what the program or who is saying it.
One person asks, “Tea Party ppl keep saying they’re taking their country back, but from what or who?” “Even they don’t know.” “Perhaps the fact that they now have a black president has something to do with it.” “The Tea Party is sinister.”
Naturally Sarah Palin just has to be part of the conversation and nothing good said as you may well imagine.
So there I was, cursing and swearing at my radio and finally I did wake up and was able to read my book for too many hours. Bah!
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Permalink • Sunday - November 07, 2010
sorry I checked my inbox tonight. rcob! can’t we please drop the damned UN?
Damn it I really thought I was outta here earlier. Checked inbox before shutdown and found this bloody £”!!&^*%* thing. Who are these foreign god damn effin jerks to tell my country how to do things in our own back yard.
United States Placed In Human Rights Hot Seat
The United States has been defending its human rights record before the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council.
A 30-strong US delegation was grilled by more than 80 states on issues ranging from the Guantanamo detention centre to racial discrimination. Switzerland called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
The US was the 136th UN member state to be scrutinised by allies and adversaries in the UN rights body, as the Obama administration opens itself up to a council that was shunned by his predecessor.
US Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, head of the high-level delegation, said she was honoured to present the first US Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
“We take our place in the UPR process with pride in our accomplishments, honesty in facing continued challenges, and a commitment to using the international system to elevate and advance the protection of human rights at home and abroad,” she told the packed meeting room in Geneva.
Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and Iran, some of the US’s fiercest critics, were among the first to speak during the three-hour meeting.
The Cuban ambassador, Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez, called on the Americans to end their embargo against his country.
Iran’s delegation urged the US to “halt serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law including covert external operations by the CIA carried out on pretext of combating terrorism”.
Many countries raised similar issues such as the death penalty, failure to ratify key human rights conventions, the treatment of migrants, racial discrimination, US prison conditions, the closure of the Guantanamo detention centre and related abuses allegedly committed during the war on terror.
Death penalty
Switzerland, like Ireland, France, Britain and a host of others, called on the United States to bring in a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
Ireland? where they’re throwing bombs again. France? Britain? Oh that last one is a gas. Britain? Where most burglars even with a record do not see the inside of a jail? Britain, where the average man on the street and women too, favor the death penalty. But hey, that’s just the law abiding ppl and who listens to them anymore. Britain? Where more then a thousand VIOLENT criminals are walking the streets free as birds cos the jails are crowded? Switzerland?
I have a message for all you stupid hand wringing, bunny hugging, bed wetting, butt fuck ass wipes.
GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!!!! DROP FUCKIN DEAD SHIT HEADS! DO IT NOW so we don’t have to listen to your pious bullshit.
Switzerland ... Tell ya what dip shits. We’ll end the death penalty if all of you holier then tho overpaid fat cat stuffed shirts take ALL the violent prisoners we have waiting on death row, into your country. With no possibility of return to the USA. You house the miserable bastards. At your expense. Or don’t you love mankind quite that much? You only love em removed by some miles where you won’t have to put up with the problem. Oh woo-hoo. The Swiss took a few Gitmo prisoners. How thweet you are. Kiss,kiss. Wait till they turn on ya, and they will. You gonna send em back?
You guys can flame me if ya want to but I’d be very happy if somehow some way some terrorist found a way to bring down the UN building. I hate the idea of that false money grubbing place on our shores. I’m tired of listening to Russia give us advice on rights. I’m tired of all the human and civil rights groups messing about and really, really would just love to gun ALL the bastards down. It’s become an industry we don’t need meddling in state affairs. And, most are foreign based as well, with offshoots operating in the USA.
Oh yeah ... please notice our not so glorious president has allowed this latest UN forum where President Bush (for all his faults) ignored it.
There’s lots more to read and get steamed about.
I really don’t think I need this damn newsletter. Do I? Jeesh.
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Permalink • The ‘Terry Pratchett’ effect
I’m a fan of Terry Pratchett. I’ve read most of his Disc World series. I spend much time, normally while delivering the mail, listening to the audiobooks of the Disc World.
I find that ‘pratchettisms’ are creeping into my normal life.
Just this morning, I was standing in the middle of the living room. I was thinking about the fact that we had three bananas that were too ripe to eat, but just ripe enough to make banana bread. I was considering converting the bananas to banana bread. My wife came down the stairs with a load of laundry.
She asked: ‘Do you have to stand in the middle of the room?’
I answered: ‘Yes’
She asked: ‘Why?’
I answered: ‘Because I have to be somewhere.’
She just looked at me, said that I was ‘nuts’ and proceeded to the laundry room.
At that point it occurred to me that I’ve been reading too much Terry Pratchett. That’s exactly the sort of answer that a Pratchett character would give.
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Permalink • Saturday - November 06, 2010
hurray for our side and SCREW our critics on Any Questions in Scotland. Brits will understand.
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