Sunday, April 15, 2007

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot ...

A HOT, HOT DAY TODAY. Yesterday's Grand National was, according to the Sunday People, the hottest in 100 years. Temperatures hit 25C/77F here in the capital. So no wonder I had an inconveniently sweaty morning (drest in my habitual winter garms) ... I was irritatedly awaiting my dealer's arrival as well and so not in the mood for inconvenience of any description ...

Had wonderful chicken dinner chez Mother Hubbs. Was actually in the mood to polish off the entire lot, which was remarkable. I'm turning into a sparrow-eater in my old age. (Not that I eat sparrows (you'd have a hard job finding one for a start. I mean I eat like one. Have to take "American breaks" all the time: come back to it later ...))

I'VE BEEN MUSING OVER WHAT I READ in that book about corruption amongst New York narcotics cops in the early 1970s... paying informants in heroin. The author claims that in Queens alone there were perhaps 30 junkies who were unable to score (because they'd grassed all their dealers up) now relying solely on corrupt policemen to obtain their daily fix. (Yup: their heroin came direct from the narcotics squad's seizure lockers ..!) I wonder how accurate that statement actually is. As I said, that has happened in this country but no way has it ever been the norm. The only rumour I have heard (or rather, read in print) has been that drugs seizures have a consistent way of being recorded always smaller than they actually were. Of course those caught with the drugs are never going to complain on that score ...

Can anybody tell me why it is some blogger bloggers turn to haloscan to handle their comments? I've asked every haloscan blogger I've ever come across the question: why do you do this? And no-one tells me. Why the big secret ...?

Heroin horror??!? Click here! And re paragraph three: it's never made mine or anyone I know's teeth appear to turn to glass. Neither would you be seized by the urge to bang your face into a brick wall to break them:.. that's not heroin you're describing there. More like a bad time on ketamine, or more likely phencyclidine ("PCP") ...

And another food blog: couchpootato.blogspot !!

... and for drugs info:-- Opiates Resource Site
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18 comments:

  1. Nicole15 April 2007 at 21:59

    Gled, Ilse is Vincent's sister. She does have a blog but it's all in Dutch:
    http://ilseswonderewereld.blogspot.com/
    She lives about an hour north of Amsterdam with her girlfriend Cassie.

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  2. Gledwood15 April 2007 at 22:58

    Oh! Maybe I will go there and try out mijn pappelijk nederlands on her ...

    does pappelijk mean "crappy"?

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  3. Gledwood15 April 2007 at 22:59

    "waardeloos"..?

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  4. Kao16 April 2007 at 00:45

    yeah, it was quite a surprise when I read your comment...

    but it's ok, I'll put you in "flogs & blogs" so people can read yours...

    thanks... and if I don't change the language is because I write in spanish too, sometimes...

    I'm glad you liked my blog, I hope you read it again.. I'll do with yours too..

    see you, kissssssssses and hugs...®

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  5. Anonymous16 April 2007 at 02:33

    Dear Gledwood,

    Many thanks for your kind and encouraging words about my blog ohomemhorizontal.blogspot.com. Congratulations for your great success.
    As from Rio de Janeiro, I remain, sincerely yours,

    Remo Mannarino.

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  6. Yvonne16 April 2007 at 07:34

    hi there! couchpootato here~

    thanx for swinging by my blog and linking me up~ i'll link u up too!

    do come by for updates and feel free to leave any comment since my friends are all lazy bums who don't comment!

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  7. claire16 April 2007 at 07:35

    hee gledzz

    goodmorning! i am still just waking up (at work ha ha) yesterday was a beautiful day drinking and hanging in the parc, about 30 degrees! so nice,

    read you soon ;)

    love claire

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  8. Anonymous16 April 2007 at 09:00

    Hello Glenwood,

    I am Ilse, the sister in law from Nicole. I read youre duthc message and i will answer from now, in dutch, so you can learn.
    Wat leuk om zo'n reactie te krijgen en leuk dat je op die manier probeert nederlands te leren. Ik zal later deze dag wat meer op jouw blog lezen, dan weet ik een beetje wie je bent.

    Groetjes van Ilse:-)

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  9. Edyta16 April 2007 at 12:20

    Hey!
    Oh yeah, i heard on the news that ITS HELL HOT in the UK! Talkign abt global warming... Ya know, we had the warmest & most mild winter ever, this year! I cant recall having such a winter even in my childhood days. It always had been FREEZING DAMN cold & it aint nowadays.
    I mean last year, same time, meaning april, snow was only beginning to melt... & now? I can almost walk without a warm jacket. What are the odds, indeed!

    LOL @ drawing men! Shall take ur advice! I certainly hope not all men r that clumpy-faced & with big noses... well most of 'em r! well that doesnt mean i am miss world 2007! so who am i to critisize :)

    hope ur doing great in that HOT weather. Hope it aint gonna start being flamming HOT!

    Edyta (seriously, no pun intended) LOL!
    GL!

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  10. Klatuu o embuçado16 April 2007 at 15:33

    Crazy world! (Maybe it gives an unser to the haloscan «mistery»!)
    ;)

    Cheers!

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  11. Nicole16 April 2007 at 16:34

    Hehehehe waardeloos is worthless, I haven't heard pappelijk before but it sounds like it may mean "flimsy".

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  12. rowan17 April 2007 at 19:31

    Wow.. that would be an interesting story to hear.. The relatoinship between the junkie addict and the policeman. I wonder how it worked..That is, I wonder how the relationship was forged.

    side question- How did you get so many readers? You post more than once a day and still get tons of comments!

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  13. Gledwood18 April 2007 at 00:41

    Ivy: how was the relationship forged? By the police trying to duress their "suspects" into spilling information ... & so on ... I would guess...

    Why so many different people saying hi? Because I quite often go wandering through "next blog" or people's links (how do you think I find all those links I put up!) then I say hi & they're saying hi back.

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  14. Gledwood18 April 2007 at 00:48

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  16. Gledwood18 April 2007 at 00:52

    Beste Ilse dank U wel voor het comment: ik heb nu geen nederlands boek. En ik heb Babelfish niet gebruikt. Deze is mijn waadenloos grammatik. Ik zal een niewe nederlands boek bekommen (is dat niet het duitse woord?) en een woordeboek of een phrase-boek. Dan zal ik beter nederlands schrijfen kannen/koennen/ wat vervelend! I need to get a Dutch textbook again or else I won't be able to write about anything other than how old I am and where I live!

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  17. Anonymous18 April 2007 at 15:12

    1. Thanks NICOLE.

    2. KAO thanks for doing that. I had promised to list you ... then clicked forward by accident; went back and COULD NOT FIND YOU. So thanxx for getting in touch bc your name is now listed where it belongs.

    3. ohomemhorizontal: you are welcome!!

    4. Ditto Yvonne. Your blog is lovely that's why I listed it. I collect cookery & craft blogs especially. With lovely pictures...

    5. Hi CLARE thanks for getting back in touch. I missed you!

    6. Hallo ILSE wat denkt U of mijn nederlandse brief?

    7. Edyta, yes you are damn right, it was BOILING the other day it got to 27C 80F I thought there was something wrong with me for sweating so bad. Didn't realize the day actually WAS that boiling!!

    8. Klatuu o embuçado that's as may be but still I am left with NO ANSWER! What is this? Some giant conspiracy plot against me??

    9. Ivy I answered you! But PLS ansa me. PLS. I am now worried & mystified who this person is that I knew or didn't know... how incidentally did you know her?

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  18. Anonymous18 April 2007 at 16:47

    Yes, what you read is true. We still have a huge corruption problem in New Orleans, too.

    I have a blog that uses Haloscan. I didn't request it. It's supposed to help screen out spam emails. Hope you're well.

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