Happy Halloween to you too Sweetie.
The kids started to call at the door from 6pm, Phyllis had plenty of bags made up for them. The bangers going off are driving the dog nuts, this will go on now until about 10pm.
I have two cameras covering the front door and the lead up to it from the gate, it’s handy to be able to see who’s coming. Happily most of the children are accompanied by adults, evil perverts will avail of every opportunity when kids are about.:twisted:
They have fireworks going off at a club near me and they will go on till about 11.30pm, the bangers have stopped but now the fireworks are frightening the life outa the dog, I have tried everything to console the little fella but he keeps running to the window barking his head off.
I’s a wonder somebody hasn’t come up with a solution to calm dogs down at times like this, of course there’s always the wooden mallet in the shed, tempting eh?
Here’s one of my favourite personalities Boris Karloff with an appropriate song
That is the classic song Jem.
Why all the fireworks?
We have no fireworks until Nov 5th.
My invention would be earplugs for dogs.
Bless a cuddle and a treat may help.
“His television films became increasingly flamboyant and outrageous. The film ???(deleted) sought to portray Richard Strauss as a Nazi: one scene in particular showed a Jewish man being tortured while a group of SS men look on in delight, with Strauss’s music as the score. The Strauss family was so outraged by the film that they withdrew all music rights. The film is effectively banned from being screened until Strauss’s copyright expires in 2019”
(1)Who is this Director?
(2)What is the title of the film above?
(RJ. I know you know the answer to this)
Talking about classical music, I was about to post Beethoven’s 5th, but I couldn’t find it, I probably could have narrowed down the search if I knew whether it was a boy or a girl.
I’m watching Clint Eastwood on ITV4 now, the film is called ‘High Plains Drifter’ and Clint is riding the ugliest looking horse I ever saw, it’s a sickly white grey splattered with white spots. Alright maybe it’s the fastest thing on four legs, but he would make a terrible looking handbag, and that begged the question.
How come they use the hide of cows and other animals to make all types of leather goods, but never the hide of horses?
I’m not advocating killing horses for their hides by no means, I’m just curious as to why horse hide is useless, I know horse hair is used a lot. Anyone know?
All together now
Bless your beautiful hide, wherever you may be
We ain’t met yet but I’m a-willing to bet
You’re the gal for me
Bless your beautiful hide
You’re just as good as lost
I don’t know your name but I’m a-stakin’ my claim
Lest your eyes is crossed
Oh, I’d swap my gun and I’d swap my mule
Though whoever took it would be one big fool
Or pay your way through cookin’ school
If’n you would say I Do
Bless your beautiful hide, prepare to bend your knee
And take that vow ‘cause I’m a-tellin’ you now
You’re the gal for me.
(Howard Keel)
Jem, I guess that you are referring to the late Ken Russell, the enfant terrible of the silver screen.
I won’t name drop again, but he was a long time friend of my late mother, (couldn’t resist it). By an incredible coincidence they both died on the exact same day November 27 2011.
Mother occasionally asked m e to join them for afternoon tea during the summer of 2006. He was a delight, turning into mother’s driveway, turning on the charm, & turning an ordinary afternoon into one quite extraordinary one.
We talked about Food & his recipes for some Italian dishes, recalling an article in which he was quizzed on his love of eating out. Very generously he gave out the name & location of his favourite watering hole, deep in the New Forest.
Caramba, when he tried to eat there shortly after disclosing the place the Maître d’ had to turn him away because they were booked solid for the following three months.
He waxed lyrical about his productions particularly music.
Jolly good-at least it keeps your tiny braincell from lingering over that time you had sex once! [although you didn’t mention what the teddybear thought of it]
I have taken to habitually performing multiple forward rolls around the lounge, then jumping up making star shapes in the air. The whole process has now become involuntary which has caused concern for Mrs Spitty. We have discussed the situation, and, I have made the first step to self help by getting in touch with Gambolers Anonymous.
I knew there was some family connection with the Rustler (I heard Oliver Reed sometimes referred to Ken Russell as ’The Rustler’, Reed was very much loved in Cork and is buried there as you well know)
I faintly remember you mentioning your late mother knew Russell well.
The film is called “Dance of the Seven Veils” I wonder will it be shown on TV when the Strauss copyright runs out.
Watching ‘How it’s made’ on TV, I love these, they just showed one called “How elevators are made’ very uplifting.
Later on they’ll be showing one called ‘Drilling for oil’ I won’t be watching it, very boring I would imagine. Last week they one on optical surgery, I enjoyed it, a real eye opener.
Now there’s a coincidence Pug, the missus has just got back from the clinic where she had a wax removal job done, I believe they use some sort of mini hoover to remove the earwax now. I have never had it done yet, the hearing is grand, until she asks me for money, then I go all deaf, miserable miser that I am.;-)
Wax lyrical, “To talk in a highly enthusiastic and effusive way” I have always wondered where the ‘wax’ came into that expression, I used to think it was someone singing by candlelight, but then I was never edumacated proper like.
Happy wine day Sweetie, have we got lift off yet?;-)
I’m not long back from town where I had a couple of pints with an old friend.
All these modern technical terms are very confusing, but even I, after much kicking and screaming, have some notion of what some of them mean, some old chaps just don’t bother their backsides learning or just don’t want to know, and who can blame them with more and more new terms coming out every day.
One of my surveillance cameras went on the blink and I slipped into town to buy a new one, I wanted to upgrade to a PoE type camera (if you don’t happen to know what that is look it up yourself, I’m too tired to explain it) The shop I chose to buy the thing is a very very old established family shop and the owner chap must be 100 if he’s a day, but they are very reasonable price wise.
When I asked to see some of the latest PoE models the old lad looked a bit confused and asked
“What dies the PoE stand for… Pieces of Eight?, sorry but I believe we’ve gone decimal now”
Now that’s what I call throwing in the towel on technology.
Jem;in this particular context, to ‘wax lyrical’ actually harks back to ‘ancient times in sunnier climes’ [boom,boom] when to ‘wax’ meant to grow, and the Lyre was a common instrument of the day…so the phrase ‘wax lyrical’ actually meant ‘to grow musically in one’s speech’…meaning,to become more enthusiastic & eloquent regarding a particular subject under discussion.
umm…I’ll just nip off now Jem,before the effluence interfaces with the air conditioning.
