IT'S BEEN A VERY COLD DAY! Here in damp old London (London is meant to be a damp city: in the 1950s fog used to combine with coal smoke from a million plus chimneys to swirl into those famous "pea soupers" a kind of 1950s supersmog. Some evenings it was so bad they had to have the sighted led out of tube stations toward the trolleybus (tram) stops ~ by the blind! Maybe the fog was another reason for the enduring popularity of the trolleybus (which is a doubledecker tram*: ie like a double decker bus but powered from overhead electricity. For some reason they never tagged two or three together; which I always thought the entire point of trams: that they're longer and can go on-street then flume down underground suddenly to reappear in celestial rosegardens ... (sorry imagination took control of me for a sec). Yeah anyway does anyone know why they got rid of the trolleybus?*no it was not! I just put up the trolleybus picture above (from South Africa) you'll see that one (and every trolleybus I googled) ran on TYRES not on street-embedded rails... why on earth would you want that? All the disadvantages of being tied to electric power and yet the possibility of taking a wrong turn and wrenching yourself free of the electricity!
I do apologize about my earlier post on books. The post is an extension of a telephone conversation. Or to put it another way: I wanted to put the idea of e-publishing to YOU the e-reader. And it all got a bit vehement. My vehemence is now dispersed.
Anyway now it's up to me to FINISH the bloody thing. E-book, selfpublished book or massmarketed book. Aaargh!!
I spent all day asleep. I don't know what got me. Something to do with not having slept more than a couple of hours a night for several days in a row. And suddenly I'm slaughtered!
Yeargkkh! I just realized Easter CONTINUES tomorrow into Monday. Why an Easter Monday? What's that all to do with? Eggs? Did you know in the Chandogya Upanishad the entire world is born from an egg? See: these myths were interwoven at the misty dawn of time...
Sorry not Chandogya: Katharudra Upanishad see verse 20 all gods and demons in the cosmic egg...
Music:
Taffy: I Love My Radio
That "C'est La Vie" song was the KICK over here in the States! It still gets play on the Classic R&B stations! There's another vid in that YouTuberation called "Wot's It To Ya?" that I remember as well, but not as well as "C'est La Vie"!
ReplyDeleteWell I just got back from New York City an am catching up with my blogroll...Gleds we have busses in Cambridge, Mass that run on the wires like that!! Of course in Boston we have trolleys, but they are on tracks all hooked together!
ReplyDeleteWishing you Happy Easter..I was born Easter Sunday, 1958...The mormons say that April 6 was Jesus's b'day...I wonder if I am the second coming??
PS...Gleds why aren't you signed up on the Tom's Trivia Challenge???
ReplyDeleteYou know you will do well!!
It was really cold in the Netherlands as well, I think they recorded their coldest Easter in over 40 years. It snowed!
ReplyDeleteOver in Adelaide it was quite the opposite, we drove to spend the day at the river with friends and it was about 32 degrees. All in all a lovely day, but I'm still feeling absolutely drained and exhausted. We left the house really early and something about the fresh country air just makes you so tired by the time you get home.
Hey Doll, you came by my site the other day and asked about my location...it's Manchester, VERMONT. US. :-/
ReplyDeleteAlan: hey until I looked it up I had no idea it even CAME from elsewhere let alone had popularity Stateside... lotsa songs that've been hits here have tanked in the US, you can't always predict which will do what either...
ReplyDeleteTom: How on earth can the Mormons who talked about golden plates covered in Hebrew and yet the faux-King James translation exists without a Hebrew original to refer to I find that religion quite fanciful... yeah how CAN they know it was 6 April.?? You are just as likely to be Jesus as they are to be the True Religion! ps no i've not done the trivia challenge hang on let me note it down...
Nicole: it's not QUITE so freezing now... I don't know why! Yummy summer days... yeah!
Mascota: I never knew there WAS a Manchester in Vermont!!! In fact where is Vermont? I know the name but could not place ...
I am not familiar with the concept fo Esater Monday unless by that you mean am I hauling my fat ass to Target and getting half priced candy. Oh Yes I am!
ReplyDelete1/2 priced = good. what are targets? apart from things I keep missing... (??!)
ReplyDeleteI never understood why they got rid of trolleybuses either - I used to love them!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a trolleybus in my life!!
ReplyDeleteHere the electrical buses were used when the wires were already there but no money to built new trams with rails and all, or the streets too narrow: Just expand the wires, change some chassis and you have new bus-lines. In the 50s there were buses with trailers, one axles I think.
ReplyDeleteheheheheh here in lisbon are about 16/17 degrees...
ReplyDeleteheheheheh it`s really spring...