MY ABSCESS, that I had on my left thigh and barely mentioned has gone down pretty nicely without bursting (mine never burst, my immune system, aparently, is too strong) they just sink down. Faintly disappointingly as no pus to ooze, explode, mop etc. but all in all far healthier. The top of my leg was bright red at one point. Hmmm...
Gremlins in a tube: yes! I picked up the Maltesers tubie this morning, had to put my hand the other end in case I laugh and that is enough to make them blindly bolt out the other end, believe me... and cooed into it, "Hello! Hello! Come out you baby gremlins!" and two nervous little faces appeared, two pink quivering noses, one atop the other (they seem to love sleeping double-decker). This was Bashful and Itchy. Big Momma Spherical, being superior (and I suspect she is their literal mother) sleeps separately and imperiously in the granary (ie the cardboard box into which they disgorge all their wild birdseed) and would go bananas if I dared disturb her peace... So in the end Sergeant Itchy emerged to investigate and ran over my hands for a while. So tiny I must get a photo to show you. Meanwhile have a click on this and note how tiny is the robbie in scale with the toilet tube. Tiny tiny pompom-pingers. Maybe the original L Roborovski founder of the dwarf hamster brand in 1910 or thereabouts lost the pompom off his wooly hat on one deep siberian expedition only to see it racing about with legs on and a little pink nose and hiding under bushes... a closer look and hey!... it was Bashful and Itchy's great great to the power of a hundred ancestors ~~ wahey!...
My main video of the day comes from the dark days of the 1980s when Britain had a mere 4 television channels and computers were glorified pocket calculators. It's the peerless Adventure Game!! Take a look at this for a blast from the past in ancient computer graphics. And also how crap most BBC TV used to be... stage actors treating the studio as if it were live theatre (lots of OTT expressions and voice projection) and so on and so on... Which begs me to pose the question: what was 80s TV like in YOUR part of the world? How many channels did you get? Is it true you Australians had channels 1, 2, 3 and 9... but no 6, 7 or 8??! Plus what was the worst programme of all time (apart from the delicious Prisoner: Cell Block H!?!
Also, to perk up your stately Sunday I've two clips of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie starring in The Simple Life: Interns
1. Vacuuming up a corpse
2. Burger King employees!
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Prisoner Cell Block H - Best Acting Clip~~ starring Erica Davidson, the "kindly witch"...
It is toronto.
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ReplyDeletethere's a lot of buildings that resemble a flying saucer impaled on a massive spike in northern usa and southern canada i've noticed that before... i wonder WHY??!
ReplyDeleteHi Gledwood. Though I would drop by. However do you find time to run so many blogs!!
ReplyDeleteTwice a week or so I go "hopping" for a couple of hours...
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog!!
ReplyDeleteAdventure Game clip was bizarre, never saw it, but it brought to mind sooo many oldies but goodies (IMO) from the t.v.land of my past. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, the Banana Splits, and the infamous H.R. Pufnstuf (which I actually have a VHS set of... should I be admitting that here??)
Also, your video of Prisoner Cell Block H was good stuff!! I seriously watched that way back when and had recently thought of it when I used the name in a blog last week (it was buried in there, so don't go looking for it. LOL) NO one I know would have gotten the reference anyway.
Lizzie was my favorite, followed up probably by Doreen. Now you have made me go and add it to my Christmas Wish List. 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' is already on it as that just came out on DVD a couple months ago... another show I watched in the late 70's/early 80's?
Peace, Mary
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ReplyDeleteSorry gled, that was me.
ReplyDeleteMany of those "flying saucer" building tops "revolve" 360 degrees...usually they're restaurants that offer complete views of a city - quite spectacular.
The ones that are "stationary" still offer the same great views - only you walk around to see things from all angles.
We have a couple of them here in Vancouver (I've only been once, many years ago).
Linds was just at the Space Needle in Seattle and took some pictures from there - I'll post them for you.
Those little hamsters are SO cute.
Linds and I used to watch "The Simple Life" all the time.
Sinead was talented. I watched in disbelief as she ripped up that picture of the pope after performing live on SNL. The audience was stunned. No applause, no sound.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a religious man, but I knew right there that she'd killed her own career...
You know, I never got that whole SNL/Sinead thing. It was weird to me that everyone was so shocked by that. I was like "What? Everyone's in love with the catholic church now?"
ReplyDelete*GASP* OH NO! A rock singer made a negative statement about religion! Gee, that's never happened before.
Sorry about the abcess - well, glad it has gone, I meant sorry you had it. Love the link to the robbie photo! And such a cute story about them. Do post us a pic of them, Gleds.
ReplyDeleteCrystal: You got Prisoner Cell Block H in New Jersey? Wow it gets everywhere! Lizzie Birdsworth was one of my favourites as well: "Gee Mrs Davidson, if I don't get some tucker for me dodgy ticker I'll cark it" haha! Yeah surely you get it on DVD now even if you have to get it from Amazon abroad...
ReplyDeleteDebs: the only thing we have resembling such is called the Post Office Tower or Telecom Tower in London. It stands out like a pin stuck in a pancake... it had a revolving restaurant in the "saucer"... difference being as far as I know there was no true spike (ie just concrete with elevators or stairs inside) it was actually a very narrow cylindrical office block... the intention being to give space for all the satellite and communications equipment up top...
Whitenoise: I heard about this antipope thing she did... over here it wasn't so much of an issue except with Roman Catholics... her career I think has sunk here because she's gone less popularist. Her records were still selling in the hundreds of thousands but no more in the millions afterwards.
After she did that and got booed offstage at a few other places she got all tearful and crying... I mean what do you expect Sinead?!?
Cap'n S: yeah but Sinead had no hair remember :: which timesed her statement into something FAR more scurrilous..!
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes: I would love to get film of them washing each other. They are so funny when they do that, turning it almost into some kind of fight, really odd...
Hi Gleds! I'm back in the land of the blogging.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question about being up at sparrow fart...yes, it is an antipodean saying. But as for where it came from, I don't know. I guess it relates to when guys first wake up, they stretch, scratch their balls...and fart.
Hmmm, an abscess on your thigh, sounds painful. What caused it?
Anyway, Gleds, take care of yourself. I had a look at your tiny little Robbies...they are small, aren't they? But rather cute.
I question the video title - Paris and Nicole vacuuming up dead bodies.
ReplyDeleteShould this not be either:
Vacuous Bodies Paris and Nicole
or
Brain Dead Paris and Nicole finally doing some blooming housework?
Hi Gleds ~~ Your little Robbies are so tiny, but very cute. You get a lot of pleasure from them I think. Glad you liked the Wooden Bowl story.
ReplyDeleteI did watch Prisoner - Cell Block H
when they first made it, many years ago. I too like Lizzie best. She is dead now and so is Bea I think.
How goes the writing? Good luck with it. Take great care, Regards, Merle.
Ow...jeez, that can't be good! I'm glad it went down on it's own and didn't turn into a Vesuvius! But where is the abcess going? Don't become septic...
ReplyDeleteThe little hammies are adorable! I think I mentioned that I wanted a ferret but they've outlawed them in California. I think they're afraid they'll eat children or some dumb thing. Some poor child was killed yesterday because his mother was sleeping and the other sibling was trying to plug in a DVD, and the TV set fell on him. I'm sure the libs here will try to pass a law banning TV's. That's about how bad it's getting...
Thanks for checking out my "dark" blog. I had to update today...
I love reading your blog. Your style of writing is really interesting and real.
Stay well and safe...
~~~Blessings~~~
Gracie: yes I hate it when every single freak accident has to result in a new law else the politicians will get crucified by the media. Do they not see how ridiculous their kneejerk reactions are? Or are they so entrenched in the status quo they just cannot think in any way out of it~??
ReplyDeleteMerle: Lizzie Birdsworth was one of my favourites as well... the writing I took a couple of days off... I don't know why I should procrastinate like this but I'm right up to the part where real excitement begins!
Mermaid: hey you didn't say what's the connexion with Moorgate! But you're quite right about the Paris vacuosity/whatever word is s'posed to be...
Pussinboots: oh that came from the nasty drugs injecting I'm afraid... yes it corrodes away and now and then because things are falling apart I get a bad side-effect like an abscess like that ... as for the robbies they are extremely cute and look so tiny against household normal things... they would be scale probably to a cow size against Morph...
ReplyDeleteHave a look at Morph he is so entertaining. I never liked the white one, Clive or whatever his name was he is Morph's nemesis!
glad your abscess didn't pop. and i wish i had impregnated nicole richie than that dork from good charlotte. i like that skinny wench
ReplyDelete4 tv channel is not much.
ReplyDeleteRaffi: Uh?? Oh I see what you mean I thought you were saying "I wish I had impregnated Nicole Richie WITH that dork from Good Charlotte"... which I found rather confusing... Nicole Richie: don't you think she's a psycho? She's always the one who causes the unapologetic trouble in the simple life - remember her tipping bleach all over the pool table in series 1 or was it 2..? ??
ReplyDeleteRopinator: - hey but you come from Hungary! Surely things weren't very much different there in 1985?