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| Donald Trump's Xmas message - Hate |
Friday, December 25, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Prelude and Fugue
Things aren't out to get you, it's you who are clumsy.
...The train wasn't late, you missed it.
It's not that what you wanted wasn't there, but you,
...You looked like you were moving, yet no more
Than the swaying of trees that answer only to the wind,
...And move only to stay where they are.
Your actions are like the flickering of a candle flame
...As the time it measures dwindles
.........to no more.
But trees don't walk. Don't wait for trees to walk,
...Go and caress them, whisper to their silence.
And if you quench a candle with your lips tonight,
...Relight it tomorrow night
.........with your hands.
--
Stephen Moran
Note: The dots are to simulate indentation, which is not possible in the normal way on Blogger.
...The train wasn't late, you missed it.
It's not that what you wanted wasn't there, but you,
...You looked like you were moving, yet no more
Than the swaying of trees that answer only to the wind,
...And move only to stay where they are.
Your actions are like the flickering of a candle flame
...As the time it measures dwindles
.........to no more.
But trees don't walk. Don't wait for trees to walk,
...Go and caress them, whisper to their silence.
And if you quench a candle with your lips tonight,
...Relight it tomorrow night
.........with your hands.
--
Stephen Moran
Note: The dots are to simulate indentation, which is not possible in the normal way on Blogger.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
How to open walnuts
"Don't use a nutcracker. Apart from being very hard to crack with a nutcracker, the walnut will break into fragments. You might even put someone's eye out with flying pieces of shell. Here's a much easier way to open it and get the walnut out in better shape. Trust me, you'll never go back to using a nutcracker."
Willesden Herald Kitchen Testing Laboratories # 7
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Conversations with the first alien scout
"Ni hao? Hola? Hello?"
"Wotcha."
"Hmm. Wie geht's? Pryvet?"
"Yewoh?"
"Shalom?"
"Wos yer game!?"
"What is your energy source?"
"We eat stuff."
"Okaaay. Crude. How long do you live?"
"About 80 years."
"What!? Are you serious?"
"'fraid so."
"Is there a waste output resulting from this 'eating'? I'd like to see it."
"No you wouldn't."
"I like what you've done with that star."
"We didn't do anything, it was like that."
"We don't have a planet of our own."
"Oh yeh?"
"Did you notice you have a loose roof tile there?"
Bob Harmless
"Wotcha."
"Hmm. Wie geht's? Pryvet?"
"Yewoh?"
"Shalom?"
"Wos yer game!?"
"What is your energy source?"
"We eat stuff."
"Okaaay. Crude. How long do you live?"
"About 80 years."
"What!? Are you serious?"
"'fraid so."
"Is there a waste output resulting from this 'eating'? I'd like to see it."
"No you wouldn't."
"I like what you've done with that star."
"We didn't do anything, it was like that."
"We don't have a planet of our own."
"Oh yeh?"
"Did you notice you have a loose roof tile there?"
Bob Harmless
Monday, December 07, 2015
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Dublin Christmas streets
Harry Lemon has been to Dublin and reports that it was looking good, albeit the stormy weather was inimical to brass monkeys.#dublin #christmas #christmaslights #carolsingers
Posted by The Willesden Herald on Monday, 30 November 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Harrow Road snaps
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| London Print Studio |
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| Corner of First Avenue |
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| All Stars Gym, where Frank Bruno trained |
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| Half Penny Steps bridge over the Grand Union canal |
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| Willesden Junction from the number 18 bus |
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| Sahar Food Centre, Harlesden from the number 18 bus |
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| Derelict nursery under development, Harlesden |
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| London Plane trees, Stonebridge |
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Saturday afternoon
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| The tree in the middle is Ash. |
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| English Oak |
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| English Oak |
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| Photos from South Vale, Harrow |
Monday, November 16, 2015
A dog's dictionary
Ah-ah!
I'm not really going to hit you.
Bad!
You are the lowest, most despicable creature on the face of the earth.
Coochycoo
I'm lonely.
Down!
Well done, impressive, keep it up!
Ew!
Congratulations, you really stink!
Fox
A free dog
Garden
Small poo field
House
Emergency poo field
Park
Huge poo field
Sic!
Thus!
Thattaboy
I love you.
Tsk
Creep slowly away.
Walkies
We're going for a holiday right now!
Bob Harmless
I'm not really going to hit you.
Bad!
You are the lowest, most despicable creature on the face of the earth.
Coochycoo
I'm lonely.
Down!
Well done, impressive, keep it up!
Ew!
Congratulations, you really stink!
Fox
A free dog
Garden
Small poo field
House
Emergency poo field
Park
Huge poo field
Sic!
Thus!
Thattaboy
I love you.
Tsk
Creep slowly away.
Walkies
We're going for a holiday right now!
Bob Harmless
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Thursday daydream
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| Grand Union canal scene with geese and barge |
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| Canal bridge near Queens Park |
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| Canada Goose |
Thursday, November 05, 2015
Haytarma
Haytarma (Return) is the name of a traditional dance and the inspiration for this film about the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars by Stalin at the end of the second world war. The film had its London premiere at Dash Café in Shoreditch last night. You can watch it here on YouTube. It tells the story of a Tatar war hero caught up in the events.
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Horsenden Hill Park on Sunday
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| Horsenden Hill Lane |
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| Wiff waff |
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| Each map only shows its own part of the park |
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015
Monday, November 02, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Paula Meehan at Women of the World 2014
Many highlights. A great communicator, with humour and ranging the gamut of emotions.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Bombs, war crimes and our diminished sensitivity - Rana Dasgupta
'The recent bombing of a hospital in Kunduz highlights a decline in Western efforts to make wars less brutal. ... The vision of a consensual internationalism built on parliamentary and judicial process remains the only way to restore to global affairs the kind of legitimacy that might give young people in Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan a feeling that the world is not entirely lawless and senseless - and it does not need to be burned down. And the starting point of such a "society of societies" must be that the strong - as in any society worth the name - be bound by the same rules as the weak. ...' (Read)
The new library centre is open
It's pleasing that the new library centre has not been saddled with the awful Stalinist sounding working title of "Willesden Green Cultural Centre". There was nothing wrong with the original name, the library centre. Now it's called The Library, which actually is a misnomer, because it's a lot more than that. But at least it's a bit better than the painfully patronising old proposal.
If you think about it, calling it "The Library" is probably only a marketing tactic for the new block of foreign investment units, sorry I mean flats, that occupies the space where the car park used to be. It's still really the Library Centre but you don't want that for selling flats in Singapore, where the block of flats was advertised as having "no affordable housing and no key worker housing". That's because a "centre" might mean local people would be hanging around, and you certainly don't want that, if you're a Singaporean investor. Not that you're ever likely to visit.
But if you do, by the way, there are loads of public services you can avail yourself of, which will save you whatever the same things cost in Singapore, probably a lot, right? It's all paid for by those invisibles and key worker types you never want to see. As well as contributing via P.A.Y.E. most of them pay in monthly to the local council as well. What a brilliant wheeze!
If you think about it, calling it "The Library" is probably only a marketing tactic for the new block of foreign investment units, sorry I mean flats, that occupies the space where the car park used to be. It's still really the Library Centre but you don't want that for selling flats in Singapore, where the block of flats was advertised as having "no affordable housing and no key worker housing". That's because a "centre" might mean local people would be hanging around, and you certainly don't want that, if you're a Singaporean investor. Not that you're ever likely to visit.
But if you do, by the way, there are loads of public services you can avail yourself of, which will save you whatever the same things cost in Singapore, probably a lot, right? It's all paid for by those invisibles and key worker types you never want to see. As well as contributing via P.A.Y.E. most of them pay in monthly to the local council as well. What a brilliant wheeze!
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| Tuning stone |
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| The original Victorian library (left) is only a shell. |
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| Grange Road side still has Bin Laden's phone booth, updated. |
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| Periscopes? |
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| "Inspire and be inspired" |
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