tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87869857353272533512024-03-13T20:20:42.407+00:00Paradise DiscoveredA dream that WILL come true if we have any say in the matter.Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-30673296311776888192010-12-22T18:04:00.008+00:002010-12-22T18:17:47.872+00:00Seasons GreetingsThe whole point of a FlashMob is for a load of people to suddenly assemble in a public place and dance or sing for no apparent reason, and then disperse just as quickly, as if nothing had happened!
What makes it funny and interesting is the complete bafflement of people around, especially when it finishes and the performers carry on like normal.
Enjoy!
   
Merry Christmas All
&Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-88260747952310945642010-05-31T02:25:00.029+01:002010-06-10T18:11:03.223+01:003-in-1 …I really lack the words to compliment myself today. Alberto TombaRetired Italian alpine ski racer. He was the dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. Tomba won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championships, and nine World Cup season titles; four in slalom, four in giant slalom, and one overall title. He was popularly called Tomba la Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-89780385506322829322010-04-27T02:26:00.022+01:002012-04-10T19:19:38.034+01:00Summer …
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
Stephen Phillips, (1845-1915)
Rumour has it that the Antipodeans are striving to retain our Summer, but I have news for them. We took the Ashes, now we will take back our Summer!
So there, cobber!
Until the inevitable happens, of course. We will eventually have to give back the Summer, and will probably hand back the Ashes as well.
That, afterFletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-42305362079692759282010-04-20T03:16:00.025+01:002010-08-15T02:09:11.182+01:00Camaraderie …
The camaraderie he and I have built is good. We're pushing each other.
Brian Grant
 
 
The quotation I've chosen, by Brian Grant, was made specifically about basketball, but I found it a perfect fit for how the two British drivers, Button and Hamilton of Team McLaren, are currently behaving. Just prior to, and at the start of the season, the more sensational press hinted at Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-82351803345484546432010-04-19T02:40:00.011+01:002010-05-31T03:01:58.375+01:00Bewilderment …
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin off his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley
 
 
Fortunately it was only I that was in a state of bewilderment caused by my inability to follow the Portuguese television commentary. I tried my damndest to keep my eyes on the racing and read the ribbon at the Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-51570082040332021582010-03-30T03:41:00.022+01:002012-09-06T16:13:00.316+01:00Exciting …It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in change there is power.
Alan Cohen  Yes it was! The title is the antonym to the title of the previous post, and has been chosen deliberately.The sheen of the rain on the track was an indicator that this race, Melbourne, Sunday 28th Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-89299533274834504962010-03-14T23:27:00.007+00:002010-05-22T19:29:26.276+01:00Boring …
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.
J G Ballard
 
  Yes it was! This was the first race of the season, and given the changes to the rules and format, perhaps it isn't too surprising The 'qualifiers' on Saturday were a darn sight Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-61881638825910786962010-03-09T00:14:00.005+00:002010-05-22T14:49:42.464+01:00Serendipity …
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
Julius Comroe Jr
 
  Less than a week to go to the first race of the 2010 season. The pre-season testing (Valencia, Jerez and Barcelona) is done and dusted. Unlike the start of last season, there were no major surprises, or hastily lodged complaints by any of the teams! This season promises toFletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-16266302647062373772010-02-26T19:52:00.021+00:002010-05-21T17:21:15.216+01:00Numbers …
Defendit numerus:      (there is safety in numbers).
Latin Proverb
 
 
Wednesday is usually my day to entertain myself with the 'Funny Half-Hour' on television, otherwise known as PMQ's (Prime Minister's Questions). It is staged in that wonderfully quaint vaudeville venue called 'The House' (of Commons).
Last Wednesday, the usual suspects were there, and Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-3962160147944588922010-01-20T19:57:00.019+00:002010-05-24T23:59:41.121+01:00Obesity …
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
Anonymous
 
 
Clearing out one of my websites of material I no longer wish to have eating up masses of disk space, I came across this excerpt I carried a little while ago. It hasn't dated much, and the fact that it came from a Portuguese newspaper means that few will have read Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-26510776924010923152010-01-15T02:03:00.018+00:002010-09-16T16:14:10.359+01:00Maria & the Tramp …(first published 4 January 2008 in the FLOG)
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
 
 
Maria is a bitch; the Tramp is just a tramp. Maria is infested with fleas and so, I suspect, is the Tramp.
Before I go any further, and before I get myself into deep, deep trouble, allow me to explain. The Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-54883453471961426402010-01-12T04:19:00.025+00:002010-05-22T14:52:23.225+01:00Time …
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill
 
  Wootton Bassett is a sleepy little Market Town situated a few miles south of Swindon. It is also a 'dormitory' town that serves RAF Lyneham, and which served RAF Wroughton when the hospital there was a functioning entity. During my RAF career I have had spells at RAF Lyneham, CIO (Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-87225376364393905582010-01-11T02:16:00.014+00:002010-05-21T17:27:08.990+01:00Hell …
Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.
Henry Albert Ben
 
 
A recent blog discovery for me has been that of 'Chairman Bill' of The Thoughts of Chairman Bill. His banner headline warns Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-21555673436749708792010-01-01T22:08:00.010+00:002010-05-21T17:29:05.364+01:00The Old Lady …(first published 3 April 2007 in the FLOG)
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people
Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
I had noticed the grey haired old lady at the local Cafetaria for some time now. She seemed to be a regular customer and I hadn't given her much thought other than to observe that she invariably arrived after we did, and that she was Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-1823954529228499422009-12-29T01:20:00.009+00:002010-05-21T17:30:20.194+01:00TwentyTen …
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams
 
 
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The image above is from a series of "2010 Wallpapers" by a group of talented graphic artists. They are all free and if you are interested you can pick up one, or two, or ALL of them by visiting shareordie.in For Auld Lang Syne ... Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-16918305598703005372009-12-19T23:12:00.010+00:002010-05-22T19:31:35.172+01:00Christmastime …
Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.
Helen Valentine
 
 
The Copenhagen gab-fest has ended. Not surprisingly, OUR leaders didn't really reach any agreement. They agreed to agree on a compromise by reaching an 'Accord', but shied away from actually agreeing on a legally binding 'Treaty'. I don't wish to make Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-29360279680221325562009-12-18T03:50:00.004+00:002010-05-21T17:32:24.342+01:006.3 …
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men
Ignazio Silon
 
 
At precisely 01:37:46 on Thursday morning, December 17, 2009, Maria and I, almost simultaneously, castigated the dog loudly for scratching himself with such abandon that it was causing the bed and furniture in the room to shake. The dog lifted his doleful Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-16996984042051341362009-12-02T01:31:00.019+00:002010-08-23T19:55:07.777+01:00Bonzo …
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in
Mark Twain
 
 
There have recently been a spate of posts that have featured the blogger's pet, usually a dog, as its main subject. Without getting all mushy about it I have to say I've enjoyed immensely reading these posts. They are mainly warm recollections, tinged with a little Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-12860981787614165202009-11-16T04:42:00.041+00:002010-05-21T17:33:59.909+01:00Skill …
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. There are, however, no old bold pilots.
Anonymous
 
 
Kirsty Moore, Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, aged 32, has a masters degree in aeronautical engineering, and flies Tornado GR4's in tactical air combat as a day job.
The ultimate woman driver, she has added another string to her bow. As the first woman to break the male Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-47034191542158608412009-10-02T00:01:00.016+01:002010-05-21T17:35:02.417+01:00Departure …
Him that has control of departure, that has control of coming home, return, and turning in, that shepherd do I also call.
Atharva Veda
 
 
David McMahonhas left the stage. David has abandoned blogland (authorblog) to concentrate on his writing. The last I heard from him he had submitted his second novel to the publishers and was quite a way through the second novel!
No, you Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-40517571506250211812009-08-04T20:13:00.031+01:002010-05-21T17:35:58.582+01:00F1 - (a week is a long time)
You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt
 
 
It has been one hell of a week (and a bit) in the world of Formula One motor racing. The most dramatic and spine-chilling event was the crash that Felipe Massa had during the last seconds of the second qualifying session (Q2) on Saturday, 25th July, in Hungary. The world has been Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-4525288454074357622009-07-26T02:09:00.016+01:002010-05-21T17:37:14.301+01:00F1-asco-3 ...
You can see in pantomime the puppets fumbling with their slips of paper, see them pick up their phone, see the noiseless, ceaseless capital of memoranda, and always fooling with something.
Elwyn Brooks White
 
 
I
know I said in one of the earlier F1 posts that I would return to the subject from time to time, especially when I felt a rant coming on. Well, here I am again, soonerFletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-62311605776644291362009-07-14T17:05:00.010+01:002010-05-23T18:50:52.276+01:00Girls-3 ...
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
Bernard Katz
 
 
Another YouTube offering using Windows Live Writer to access the link, and a simple copy/paste of the 'embed' code from the original YouTube page automatically throws Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-7446764763487928242009-07-10T15:15:00.009+01:002010-05-21T17:45:07.222+01:00Girls-2 ...
Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
Anonymous
 
 
This video snippet might be construed as a bit of a 'sexist' or an 'ageist' dig, but I hasten to assure my visitors that it is posted as a tribute to a bunch of 'grannies' who absolutely do not understand the word 'cannot'.
I readily admit to being a bit of a Reginald Molehusband, Reginald Molehusband was a fictional Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786985735327253351.post-34144755243609567812009-07-09T01:10:00.013+01:002010-05-22T01:55:17.168+01:00Girls-1 ...
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Albert Einstein
 
 
This is Engelbert Humperdinck's version of the popular song, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before". I am fond of the song, and the sentiment it expresses, although I am not necessarily a fan of 'Fletchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157215951893338381noreply@blogger.com9