CARER FILCHER

Oh how funny - the opposite to our case where it was the Care Receiver who pulled off the purloining.

Bloody hell, wish someone had found and reported the theft of my own treasures.

" ... not expensive but had a high sentimental value ..."

That's exactly what I explained about the girls' heirlooms when one of the desperate excuses of self-disgust was that my knick-knacks were just cheap jewelry. Actually, there weren't all - the gifts from Cassie Woo were high grade bling, but that's not the point, is it? It's clutching at any old straw to turn the mirror from the deed.

"Heartless ... now suspicious ..."

Well yes, instant suspicion, but you also acquire the instant ability to 'read' the larcenous environment and either hide potential loot or get in there first and nick the opposition's good stuff to even the score.

Oh do listen to this, absolutely spot on. I could have been dictating it straight to copy:

" ... not expressed remorse. Wer all have things which happen to us in life, but we don't go stealing.

The real punishment ... is the loss of good character."

Alas not in the case of Villa Thefti.

Metal box said to have contained art materials and high-grade vellum paper ~ "all on paper" as per a Will, but nothing of the kind, it turns out: can't see any fronking drawing paper, just bits and bobs of unfinished sketchings.

As for codicils, extensions, etc for a Will ... never took place because the avocat moved address and the relevant documents were in my file and never asked for.

HACKING IS LAZY - Murdoch

Harry Evans in cracking form, hilariously mimicking the prince of darkness and tearing him to bits.

And James - does the boy speak english?

Counsel Robert Jay suggesting that Murdoch jnr seemed to be a bit thick in not spotting that there appeared to be a quid-pro-quo in the govt pushing for approval of the BSkyB bid after riding to 2010 election victoire with support of Murdoch papers.

What is Jimmy's clear reply?

"I simply wouldnt make that trade."

Worse than double-speak gobbledy-gook and delivered in his ghastly american accent, to boot.

Late breaking: this just in, hilarious Huntgate tree saga. This has legs.

Even Later Breaking ~ 'Making that trade' ~ My own daughter mails me from Olympia WA USA.

Evergreen State, since you ask. Triumphing, she is. Acrorss the board. Thanks again for asking.

Unwisely accuses her old man of inventing Americana Murdochiensa to make Rupert's boy look silly.

Para 8, my darling.

"During a sometimes terse exchange, Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, suggested that News Corp expected support for its BSkyB bid as a form of payback for its support of the Conservative Party in the general election.

Mr Jay suggested:

“You are somewhat blind to what might appear to the rest of us to be obvious, namely that this is in part a quid pro quo for that support?” Mr Murdoch said:

“There is absolutely not a quid pro quo for that support … I simply wouldn’t make that trade. It would be inappropriate to do so and I simply don’t do business that way.”

GARDENRY EPIPHANY

Lawd have merceh ~ I'se seen the light.

Mum, i was so wrong.

WHENCE LUDDITE?

a term too much loosely bandied around. useful refresher.

test new blogger

trial run new blogger

testing new blogger and the html workings.

need to see why the photos dont come out.
here are some examples using the automatic line space and here

and here i just want to get a good text size and font, sized fotos and well placed
Not sure i like the auto
, will revert. im suspicious, I like to see the html
comme ca.

Let us see how this look to the right of this text.

"achievement transformed into hobby"

at last someone has said. it's a bloody hobby got too big for its boots.

i'd sit there at the table taking it full on drone drone gardenry drone blah blah and id ask my mother what if i spent meal after meal droning on about my hobbies - that would shut the place down.

then it occurred to me as she retrieved her mad twisted dont u talk to me like that ...

"hang about, do you even know which are my hobbies?

name them, name one ... name one fronking hobby that i brought with me to this fragging job"

μητροπανος θες

Bloody new-style Blogger won't enable me to make even the simplest tribute,

This was meant to hail the great Mitropanos but i cant make head nor tail of what it does to my html

I was also going to tip a nod to athens news for its discerning front page.

Urbi et Orbi

Always wanted to throw that line away in some chat or chapter and today is my chance.

Lovely Clifford and Avis Owen are in town - I believe the correct address is 'Doctor the Rev'd Clifford Owen' but I will consult Debrett's - and a reunion luncheon arranged just round corner to which the faithful will bring food 'n' flagon. My kind of Saturday knees-up.

I shall engage both former and present vicars in light discussion and then casually chuck some plundered points from Charles Moore's Spectator's Notes for 7 April.

I've been drawing from both paras all week, and with good effect:

"It is interesting that David Cameron sends out an Easter message each year.

Such a thing is a symptom of the decline of Christianity. When Britain was a Christian country, no prime minister would have thought it necessary (or proper) to speak urbi et orbi.

Today, Easter takes its place alongside Eid, Diwali, Rosh Hashanah, Gay Pride etc as a day for which No. 10 issues public blessing.

Mr Cameron is at pains, however, to speak of Christians as ‘we’ and to remind everyone that the nation has ‘an established faith [the more accurate word ‘Church’ is avoided] that together is most content when we are defined by what we are for, rather than defined by what we are against.’

This is an excellently Anglican way of looking at things, and I am sure Mr Cameron is sincere. But it is also his positioning for when he tries to introduce homosexual marriage — ‘I am for it,’ he is implying, ‘you are against it. Therefore my approach is more Christian than yours.’"

The other has been a leetle more difficult to slot into my Corfu conversations but has worked splendidly on Facebook with my former Amazon co-workers back home in Seattle:

"The Prime Minister is right that Christians should not waste all their energies opposing things, but he does not realise how difficult he is making it for them to follow his rule.

Most past reforms in relation to homosexuality — decriminalisation, age of consent, even civil partnerships — may or not be opposed by Christians but they are not central to any religious understanding of society.

Gay marriage is different, because it is not merely a matter of extending rights to minorities. It is the abolition of the idea — central to civilisation throughout history — that marriage is for a man and a woman.

It is a profound redefinition for which there is no direct warrant in any mainstream religious teaching ever. Marriage is a social institution, not a private one, and so Christians cannot simply say, ‘You do what you like and we’ll do what we like’: their concept of marriage is inextricable from their view of society.

For this reason, they would be bound to oppose polygamy, and the argument against gay marriage is equally strong. The secularist retort is ‘Stuff you, why should you decide?’ and it is one that has some force in modern circumstances.

But this is not Mr Cameron’s line: He loves the via media and said this week that he opposes secularism, yet he has made himself the prisoner of the secular dogmatists."

look back angry

FORMAT SCREWED: yo! just to let you know that i do know the format is all screwed up. idiot 'blogger' has 'updated' itself without asking and so the code is full of spans and divs and brs and font families et al crap and the font size changes altho' it doesnt show where or how in HTML editing mode.

Bear with this all as i look further into it.

LOOKING BACK ANGRY

Oh dear, that bodes no boot.
Looking back is the new forward up here in Corfucius Heights and the pent-up pavlovian anger of six years Gab 'n' Gardenry the only pandoran box of feelings left me.
But I did have to smile the other day:
I stopped off at the cemetery because it seemed the right Easterly thing to do and because down by the prison was the only place I could park for my intended stroll round the bustling esplanade, and because I thought I'd get some photos to send my brother to placate and give a good impression.
The plot looked a bit shabby and I made a note to make a note on the calendar to tidy it up before the CMG bunch arrive.
A day or two later Kosta addressed me excitedly about visiting the grave and planting 'luluthia' all around.
Well, you can imagine my amazement ~ how the dickens did he know about my cheery extra verse to Cee-Lo's song, and what a marvelous cheeky memorial.

Groovin' thru Gouvia baubles bereft
Where even the luluthia have the stench of theft

I nodded and grinned appreciatively and told him 'Carry on' and 'Any time' and all the things one says on these occasions.

I also took him down to point out our luluthia (hacked to within an inch of its olfactory buds) as if to enquire,

"That? You mean plant that over the grave?"

He nodded and grinned even more excitedly so I nodded back and muttered about 'kali synechia' and sent him back to his murderous hacking ways.

Met up with a pal a few days later and told her my Luluthia Tale and she burst out laughing and gave me various fond pecks, the sort that keep a man's spirits up and hopeful:

"But luluthia is just Greek for flowers. All he meant was to go to the grave and make it nice."

Maybe, but it's still a good cue for the song - the realsong, not the wimpo six-letter version I link to here out of respect for beady-eyed family readers of my postings.

Hymn to the organist

Absolutely riveting article about organists and organ playing.

I had no particular interest in organs - because I was ignorant. Now I can't wait to meet one - even Lionel, but preferably a comely female organista - to show off my knowledge and appreciation of their skills/

A delight to share this.

STRING THEORY

But first you have to get past the rapid-fire delivery and Peter Sellers accents.

7 UP HITS 56

Remember that riveting prog following them youngsters?

Fascinating - with clips.

Thieving by Any other Name

THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT

A run-dont-walk site.

'Gigapixel' allows for studying works in detail

Wossit abaht

Works of art and cultural institutions world wide

Started February 2011 with 17 museums in nine countries; now 151 partner museums in 40 countries