The moving finger rants

The Humble Petition of STFU Rabbie

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:23:56 GMT

In 1787, Robert Burns the Ploughman Poet walked along the riverside by the Falls of Bruar. Bruar Falls, in Athole, are exceedingly picturesque and beautiful; said he, misspelling ‘Atholl’ as he did so, but their effect is much impaired by the want of trees and shrubs. Thus inspired to action, he did what any of us would do. He wrote a poem and addressed it to the landowner.

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Mmm, pie

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:04:18 GMT

The Mockney Prat is at it again, this time with the 30 minute suppers that will change your life, as it says on the front cover of my Sunday supplements this morning. Really, Jamie? These had better be some damn impressive suppers, then.

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Indicative of something

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:47:26 GMT

This was the view from my window today. An unending cavalcade of motorbikes, some inventively adorned—one had Crazy Frog riding pillion^[0]—and mostly making a bloody noise, streaming past the window for a good ten or fifteen minutes. There were a lot of them. I watched them for a while, then went to get the camera, took some photos, then got dressed and left the flat. They were still going.

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Gratuitous food porn

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:42:20 GMT

The consensus in the comments on my epic coffee post seems to be that I take more sugar than is considered usual. This is probably true: I have an inordinately sweet tooth. Comes of bringing oneself up.

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In which the Festival ends

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:06:10 GMT

The wind was heading straight towards me from the Castle and I could hear the music and smell the gunpowder. There was about a one-and-a-half second delay between the son and the lumière. Didn't get much work done for the last hour.

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I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly

Sat, 22 May 2010 15:08:12 GMT

Dear gominokouhai,
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A fuckin' jihad on you

Thu, 20 May 2010 22:53:12 GMT

Today is Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.

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An inordinate number of seaside pictures for springtime

Mon, 17 May 2010 18:25:57 GMT

Last week, stormsearch and I spent a couple of days walking the coastline in East Lothian. Pictures from the first day, Tantallon to Tyninghame, have just absorbed my entire monthly quota on my free Flickr account. I need to stop going to picturesque places. This is going to get expensive.

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Mostly about snow

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:36:23 GMT

Not trapped in the Cairngorms any more. Was only trapped for a few hours actually, when they'd shut the A9 north and south, Inverness was closed and Aberdeen was shut off—but it was pretty hairy there for a while. We had to sit in the pub in Carrbridge with a log fire and local Cairngorm Brewery ales on tap and wait for the road-status update. It was hell in there, I tell you.

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