We copied you obviously… and maybe yours is better? But at least I had the guts to go topless in a Vienamese monastery (in India). Jul, it’s your turn…
Updates from September, 2009
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Homage to Liv
slightly
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Heartache
dodman
Brett from the Conchords plays for this band, I believe.
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Library installation phase 1: complete
decoy
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How books furnish a room
dodman
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Poo in a Pot
In line with the current theme of poor kitchen hygiene; I found this article on the ‘Weird’ pages of the Metro Magazine website:
“Wife divorces husband for defecating in pots
Friday, September 18, 2009
Do not, I repeat do not, open the lid A Nigerian woman has demanded a divorce from her husband who would defecate in the family cooking pots after drinking.
Oluwakele Ogundele told a court that her husband Oluwafemi was a drunkard who abandoned all toilet etiquette and relieved himself on her plates and pots.Ms Ogundele said she no longer loved her husband and he failed to provide for the family as well as increasing the dishes workrate. ”
Metro
Website: http://www.metro.co.uk
Accessed: 22/09/09Hmmmm, nice!
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slightly
At breakfast this morning we had peanut butter, strawberry jam, bananas and chapati on offer. Perfect opportunity for an Indian LTJ sandwich washed down with a mug of chai! Most pleasant
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slightly
Daniel Jones says he was humiliated and victimised for his beliefs following incident at store in Wales
Tesco has been accused of religious discrimination after the company ordered the founder of a Jedi religion to remove his hood or leave a branch of the supermarket in north Wales.
Daniel Jones, founder of the religion inspired by the Star Wars films, says he was humiliated and victimised for his beliefs following the incident at a Tesco store in Bangor.
The 23-year-old, who founded the International Church of Jediism, which has 500,000 followers worldwide, was told the hood flouted store rules.
But the grocery empire struck back, claiming that the three best known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies – Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker – all appeared in public without their hoods. Jones, from Holyhead, who is known by the Jedi name Morda Hehol, said his religion dictated that he should wear the hood in public places and is considering legal action against the chain.
“It states in our Jedi doctrination that I can wear headwear. It just covers the back of my head,” he said.
“You have a choice of wearing headwear in your home or at work but you have to wear a cover for your head when you are in public.”
He said he’d gone to the store to buy something to eat during his lunch break when staff approached him and ordered him to the checkout where they explained he would have to remove the offending hood or leave the store.
“They said: ‘Take it off’, and I said: ‘No, its part of my religion. It’s part of my religious right.’ I gave them a Jedi church business card.
“They weren’t listening to me and were rude. They had three people around me. It was intimidating.” Jones, who has made an official complaint to Tesco, is considering a boycott of the store and is seeking legal advice.
Tesco said: “He hasn’t been banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods.
“Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as one who never removed his hood.
“If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers.”
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Gainsford
decoy
A couple of pics of the plentiful bounty at Gainsford.
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solid
Indeed a peculiar dream. The other night i had to fight a chap, in some sort of gladiatorial situation, armed only with a spoon. I stabbed him in the thigh with the handle and i believe he died quite unpleasantly. Did i actually slay some dream denizen, who had some manner of real life unconnected to mine? Or was it some mental problem personified?
The trouble with dreams is, they have very little continuity so its very hard to see anything resembling a world that keeps going after we wake up. If we can control and manipulate our dreams then there is nothing actually solid and real in our dream. There is therefore no need for roads, or cars, or potholes. those are requirements of a material world, which the dream world is surely not. Unless you were having your dream on a layer above a sort of base matter, say a dream terrain, and you traveled over blip or bump in it, which manifested itself as a pothole.
On the other hand. For a road to exist there needs to be a set of rules, like gravity and such. But dream rules rarely match up from one dream to the next. So there would have to be a million little worlds each with there own different rules that we visit every night, like a plague of horrifying godlike ghosts, bending matter to our will and leaving a trail of madness in our wake. Actually that would make quite an interesting story if told from the perspective of a dream chap! -
A hole in the road
dodman
I had a dream last night which involved me driving a large car down a narrow lane with sheer cliffs and sheer drops alternating on both sides. It was raining and there were large puddles through which I careered. Various onlookers expressed open mouthed astonishment that I could negotiate such tricky terrain; but I had a destination in mind, though I had no clear idea what it was. At one point, as I drove through a deep mass of water, I hit a hidden pothole. The car reared up on end, I shot upwards, too, but somehow held onto the steering wheel (the car was open topped, with no seat belts) and was soon back in the driving seat, rampaging on. Eventually, I reached the end of the road, which was blocked by a large brick wall, beyond which I could see a river, and beyond that, a fabulous city. I debated how to cross this river, and was asking myself how I might commandeer a crane from the city to come and lift me and my car across, when I woke up.
The question that keeps troubling me is, who put the pothole where it was? It served no useful purpose, didn’t impede my progress, and was invisible. Either it was:
a. Already there, because I was driving on a road that existed, independently from me
b. Was created by me for an unknown purpose
c. Was created by me as a representation of some relatively minor hindrance in my life to comeMy resident dream analyst suggests (c) is most likely, with (b) a close second. She finds (a) difficult to digest. I, on the other hand, firmly subscribe to (a), or a variant of it, finding both (b) and (c) rather flimsy.
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decoy
really skilled!
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Camping photos
decoy
I’ve uploaded a few photos from a recent trip to London and camping in cornwall. We stayed a couple of nights near Axeminster in a bed and breakfast, taking in a meal at the River Cottage Canteen (very tasty) and a look at Lyme Regis (we didn’t find any fossils worth bringing home). Once we’d driven to Cornwall and pitched the tent for a planned four night stay, a barrage of non stop wind and regular rain commenced, and after a couple of nights we decide it wasn’t worth the fight and popped home early. But we’d had a couple of good days, fitting in a couple of surfing sessions, a coastal walk and visiting a castle and a couple of towns.
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- conehead?
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- ?!
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- spot the difference
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- magnum…
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- listening to the audio tour
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- stonehenge
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- genuine river cottage fare
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- the cobb at lyme regis
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- a fossil
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- plentiful sloes
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- coastal walk to boscastle
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- museum in boscastle
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- hmmm
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- a refreshing beverage
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- clean shaven for once
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- a bird of prey startled whilst eating a mouse
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- a bird
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- cornish coast
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- it was v windy all the time
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- one of merlin’s personal caves… maybe
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- in a cave
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- in lyme
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- feeling the chill
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- supernoodle taste!
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- a billingshurst brew
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- further coast
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- ?
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- a bit of tintagel castle
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Foot update
dodman
It’s come to my attention that some photos I posted recently of an advanced case of fungal infection were thought to be actual images of my own feet. This was not, in fact, the case. I was exaggerating for effect. I’m attaching a genuine photo, so everyone can see the difference:
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Many happy returns
decoy
Happy birthday geoff!