For different reasons, early May sees a lot of anniversaries.
Democracy in action
Polling Day today – one of my favourite days in the calendar.
Think about it: it’s the only time you, the elector, is asked to actually take part in the political process. And it’s the one time you actually get to feel connected to political life. You walk to your local polling station, get your polling slip and cast your vote. Who needs postal voting? This is just so much more involving.
A long and winding road
Back to TASC with a dear friend, and we noticed a change…
Dancing Queen
Well, it was the Big Party last night, and some unlucky souls didn’t quite make it, so there was plenty of food left over. And getting people to dance was a nightmare sometimes.
But them that came seemed to enjoy themselves!
I, of course, as your genial host, never quite got around to having a sane or sensible conversation with anyone, including my family. And, as event organiser (must add that to my CV), I was the first one in and the last one out (after paying the bar tab), so I couldn’t even get all that drunk. Which is a shame in a way, but I did get loads of belated pressies, mainly rum, but also two bottles of champagne (bad news for when Pam next visits, she’ll have to drink half) and some red wine, some German liqueurs and a kettle (thanks, Charmaine).
The lesser-spotted furry caterpillar
I don’t think I’ll be following this new trend for facial hair…
Fit, fab & forty!
Oh well… one out of three ain’t bad!
Apparently, I share my birthday with Therese Russell and Spike Lee (both 50), Holly Hunter, Steve McFadden, William Hurt, Vera Lynn, Michael Redgrave, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henrik Ibsen and Ovid. And lots of other people, too. And Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity today in 1913.
And my lovely colleagues, bless them, raided this very web site for pictures to stick up on the walls around the office and lifts. Gosh, but it looks good!
Go, go, gadget arms!
Time to get myself a little something to play my digital music on. But what?
Tree-mendous!
Yes… I’ve bought my first Christmas tree. Never, ever had one before while living on my own (and this is the second extended period of alone-living I’m in in the last 20 years). But there’s actually space in the living room now for a five-footer, standing on a small table, with the lights built-in. Now, if only I had some decorations…
The Cellar of Dorian Grey
So I’m working on doing up my house (I may have mentioned this earlier). But where do all the unwanted shelves, tables and other bits & pieces go? Well, into the cellar for storage.
The problem, of course, is that the smaller part of the cellar already has shelving for various files, paint tins, tools and toolbox, plus the CDs and DVDs, at least temporarily. That means everything from the upstairs rooms is just being dumped in the main part of the cellar. As upstairs gets beautified, so the cellar has to take on all the evils 🙂
Awww!
Back now from my nephew’s christening (well, one of the nephews, anyway).
