Established 2003. Now incorporating The Sudbury Hill Harrow and Wherever End Times

Friday, January 22, 2016

They've all come to look for America (Facebook)

America | Bernie Sanders

This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump. This campaign is about you, your kids and your parents.

Posted by Bernie Sanders on Thursday, 21 January 2016

Great and classy Bernie Sanders campaign video with S&G song

‪#‎bernie2016‬ ‪#‎sanderssimonandgarfunkel‬

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Monday, January 04, 2016

Chirrup

The free birds are giving up their singing,
The first thing they do each morning is login.
Ostriches have learned to wear bras
And bolster their self-esteem with mindfulness.
Meanwhile rabbits are mesmerised by television;
They can't take their eyes off 24-hour news.
Even slugs are slowly moving with the times,
They all speak pure Estuary with glottal stops.
In hives there is a new type of bee, it seems,
Not a worker, a drone or a queen but a flaneur.
The flaneur bee is too heavy to fly and couldn't care
Less.

--
Stephen Moran

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.

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

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Oak terrorising a hawthorn

Oak scaring the hell out of a hawthorn (left)

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

London Print Studio

Corner of First Avenue

All Stars Gym, where Frank Bruno trained

Half Penny Steps bridge over the Grand Union canal

Willesden Junction from the number 18 bus

Sahar Food Centre, Harlesden from the number 18 bus

Derelict nursery under development, Harlesden

London Plane trees, Stonebridge

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Saturday afternoon

The tree in the middle is Ash.

English Oak

English Oak

Photos from South Vale, Harrow

Friday afternoon

Greenford Road North

Chiltern Line east

Chiltern Line west

Wood End Road

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

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

Horsenden Hill Lane
Wiff waff
Each map only shows its own part of the park




Click below for another 40 or so photos, including a canal barge, moorhen, wetland and sundry delights...

Fog on Sunday night

Sudbury Hill

Monday, November 02, 2015

North Greenford Road

Tip-Top Kebab

Crispy Dosa

Ryan's Bar

Polska Chata


Bulgarian & Romanian Food