Bit of music for the weekend

This video is about 10 minutes long, so don’t bother if you don’t like the blues! Gary Moore’s from near where I’m from. Excellent guitarist. As for BB – no need to say anything!
I love the little playful ‘duel’ they have in this jam. Gary echoing BB, like ‘I can do anything you can!” [...]

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Will anything be different?

The United Kingdom has got a new Prime Minister. Tony Blair has departed, possibly to take up a role promoting peace in the Middle East (rumours of Osama bin Laden’s Friends of America Fund are as yet unverified).
So what will change? When anything happens that would not have happened under TB’s illustrious reign, please let [...]

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Esperanto again

This Esperanto business is great fun. After no more than a couple of hours’ worth of learning, I’ve been able to have a simple conversation about hobbies, weather, etc., with some guy from Brazil. He knows no English, and the Portuguese I know could be engraved on a penny with a pickaxe. It really is [...]

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Why was the mushroom so popular?

Because he was a fun-gi to be with. <Groan> The old ones aren’t necessarily the best, are they? Anyway, it seemed like an apt title for this post. I’m a bit of a (mostly self-taught) amateur biology fan. It’s not for work, university or anything like that, it’s more a sense of amazement at all [...]

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Esperanto

Mi estas komencanto de Esperanto.

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Jane Eyre

For reasons not quite clear to myself, I’ve always superstitiously steered clear of the Bronte sisters. It’s not that they are ‘classics’, or their era. Dickens was born around the same time, and he’s a great old yarn spinner. I can get stuck into a Dickens novel with pleasure. I would sure as hell hope [...]

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WAR BETWEEN IRELAND AND FRANCE AVERTED

Breaking News Story….
WAR BETWEEN IRELAND AND FRANCE AVERTED
Nicolas Sarkozy, The French Pesident, was sitting in his office
wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate when his telephone
rang.
“Hallo, Mr. Sarkozy!”, a heavily accented voice said. “This is Paddy
down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland. I am ringing to inform
you that we are officially [...]

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