Frizz

A friend sent me this after a visit to a nursing home last week:

One woman I spoke to, who was about ninety, asked me if I was a man or a woman. When I replied a woman, she wanted to know why I wear such horrible trousers. I said they were comfortable and she replied, well it’s easy getting them down, but getting them back up is difficult.

Can you believe it, another embarrassing situation for Blair, illegal immigrants are keeping the Home Office clean…

© Mimi in NY
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Speaks for itself. Thanks to Mimi in New York.

Ok so I’m home, which is bad, because I should be in Hampstead listening to E singing, which would be so much better, but I’m right across town and feeling so lazy, I’m skipping everything.

Torturevision, otherwise known as the Eurovision Song Contest - the most embarrassing European event in history, it’s so bad you have to wonder if they actually sell tickets or give them away. Our entry sounds like something created by the cast of Grange Hill [a classic BBC children’s TV series set in a school]. Although I’ve missed a few songs, I think Lithuania should win having the gall to call their song ‘We are the Winners of Eurovision’ with the line “vote for the winners”, no subtlety then, but they made us laugh. Terry of course is in fine form.

Well at least I missed Big Brother…

Lets get rid of all the unnecessary passwords, so says Wendy Grossman writing in the Guardian. That would be great, I’ve reached the point where if I get asked for a password, I think twice about whether I really need to access the site and often as not I decide that it’s not worth the trouble.

The Arolsen Red Cross archive in Germany is to be opened to researchers. The archive which includes over 17 million records of concentration camp inmates and slave laborers is still used by the Red Cross, last year they received 150,000 requests for information from families still searching for missing relatives. [source]

Blair on deporting convicted immigrants:

“Those people, in my view, should be deported irrespective of any claim that they have that the country to which they are going back may not be safe.”

I’m watching the news and… by 2008 all are movements are going to be tracked on a database… it felt for a split second like I was watching an episode of Dr. Who.

Spotted on the way home yesterday - a woman reading a Water Shortage Survey. Saw Phaedra at the Donmar with T - disappointing, both the play and the acting (maybe they were having an off night). T offered me her copy of The Human Stain which she’d just finished, I was happy to make her journey home a little lighter. I started it on the way, but it means I’m now reading two books set on American campuses, I started Zadie Smith’s On Beauty at the weekend.

It must have been the apple the other day cos it happened again… there I was carefully chomping away when something felt very wrong. I rushed upstairs to check in the mirror and the wire looked rather wonky and very bent. Luckily even though it looked worse than last time I managed, with much relief, to flip it back - I’ve learnt my lesson, no more apples for me. If an archwire can get a weakness, mine seems to have one.

I’ve put a new heading in the sidebar for topics… the first being, but of course, braces. It takes you to a Blogger search result, at the moment it’s the only way I can think of doing it - alternative suggestions welcome.

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Sandy in the park… being a bit cross at me trying to take a picture of her. She wouldn’t turn her head towards me, even though I was calling her name, what’s that about being ‘man’s’ best friend…