Unbelievable!
Scarcely more than twenty four hours after the British and Irish Lions’ delivered a rugby lesson to the Wallabies, recording an historic series win down under with an unexpected 16-41 drubbing – than Andy Murray…
Jobsworth!
With sweet timing the weather gods have chosen to grace my brief sojourn from the rigours of work with blazing sunshine and temperatures soaring into the high 20s C. The Lions expedition to the antipodes…
A little R & R
Courtesy of the Urban Dictionary: 1) R & R Simple: Rest and relaxation As in: Maggie: “Ahh! Just got back from the weekend spa. Got some much needed r&r.” Mary: (under breath) “Bitch!” Mind you…
One year on…
Today is the last day of the year – in academic terms at least. At this time last year I was on the verge of flying off to Victoria (leaving for the airport straight from…
Atlas Obscura
Whilst searching the ever wonderful InterWebNet for items on the raven as trickster in North American First Nations cultures I came upon this article. The piece itself is brief, but acted as an introduction to…
As predicted…
On the subject of prediction Wikipedia offers us this: A prediction (Latin præ-, “before,” and dicere, “to say”) or forecast is a statement about the way things will happen in the future, often but not…
Weathering the storm
“The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather.” Proverb Dress rehearsal night for our production of Parzival finds us one cast-member short (as captain of the under…
Translations
I was intrigued by this item in The Tyee on the recent re-naming of Mount Douglas as ‘PKOLS’. For non-Canadians ‘Mount Doug’ (as it is commonly known) is on the east side of the Saanich…
Overwhelmed!
If you are a regular follower of these ramblings you may well have noticed that there has been something of a falling off in the frequency of posts over this last period. The reasons for…
CO
May 15th was International Conscientious Objectors Day. I had not realised – until I read this article in my regular Saturday newspaper, the Independent – that there even was such a thing. This is remiss…