- is it not?
I refer to the practice of being self-congratulatory. Slapping one's back. Shaking your own hand - oh you get the picture.
"Why so, Conrad?" I hear you ask. "Have you carried out some mighty feat that thus requires respectful acknowledgement?"
Well yes, actually. I don't know what the weather out there is like in your particular region of the globe, but here in the Lake of Eden* it's been unrelentingly dark, cold and wet. As I have expressly mentioned before, the weather in this country never ever hits the extremes that would make it exciting. Dull, wearying and grey, yes - exciting, no.
So.
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Let us abruptly change tack, for - Lo! - this is what we are wont to do here at BOOJUM! and if you don't adapt you may experience a psychotic episode**. Edna; our four-legged mobile alarm system, also known as a dog. Being a dog she requires a regular exercise event known as a "walk", which - she feels entitled about this - needs to happen regardless.
Enter the weather.
Wonder Wifey scouted for company taking Edna for this walk. Conrad, exhibiting a nobility of soul that surprised him, volunteered. This would have left Degsy alone in The Mansion, which as we all know is haunted by the ghosts of those who have expired in the Lower Dungeon, so he came along too.
"Proof, Conrad, proof!" I hear you call. Art?
Wet enough for you? Edna is the small grey blur at upper left. We three then braved the very high winds and the lashing rain and the depressing grey skies and the wet grass - am I painting an evocative word picture here?
Let me add in another picture. Art?
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| Edna again |
There you have it, the reason for me being so complimentary to me. Heck, nobody else is going to bother to do it.
After that very long Intro, time to put the MOT-compliant motley back on the road again.
Some People -
- have too much time on their hands. Others are just plain weird. Or, if you like, just plane weird, if I can refer you back to today's earlier post about the canard aerofoil.
Now, the picture I'm going to post is SFW despite featuring a lot of flesh, yet possibly not so much for small children or railway enthusiasts. Art?
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| Er - yes |
This is one of the products of "Jim'll Paint It" and features a locomotive experiencing existential angst at being an hideous cyborg atrocity, an evil Fat Controller and a heap of - er - dead locos. I think the background is intended to mirror Viktor Frankenstein's lab, what with the lightning and all.
Let me add in a link to Jim's website, that I may avoid the risk of litigation and legal duress:
http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/
- and to add in, again, that some people have entirely too much time on their hands***.
"Time Is Dancing" By Ben Howard
Another of the excellent music choices played over the coda of "Elementary", which I was able to define thanks to Shazam. If only this app had been around twenty years ago. Ah me, if I only knew then what I know now - oh, here's a link to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9ijspj3l4
Again, as with Shawn Smith yesterday, I'd never heard of Ben Howard before, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing as Conrad is always keen to find new music, providing it is good, and a curse as - blast it! - this means a potential back-catalogue of CDs to buy.
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| Ben |
One of the categories of that ridiculously addictive quiz show "Pointless" was 'Mercury'. Amongst others which included "The Year 1995" and there was probably a football category in there, too, which impacted your humble scribe's memory not one whit.
" 'Mercury!' " I hissed at the contestants. "Choose 'Mercury'," but instead they went with 1995.
Still, it did inspire a certain creative spark, so tomorrow we may well see more of mercury.
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| One iteration |
* It's been very wet.
** I nicked this from "Men In Black"
*** Yes, this is amazingly hypocritical. Sue me.
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