Wincle walk

Last night's walk was around Wincle - south of Macclesfield Forest. I was working until 7:30 so - as usual - couldn't go but my earlier finish enabled me to get to the pub for drinks. The terminating point was The Ship -mmmm Belgian Rasperry Beer. For some reason the party thought that the first item on the pub's menu - A 16 oz Mycock well hung steak - was amusing...
I just need to work out how to get the photos off my new N343i NEC mobile phone onto the computer...

Tales from the checkout

On Monday I had a customer buying (only):
six tubes of toothpaste
two bottles of red wine
There were - I assume - expecting the red wine to stain...
Later that day I - very gently - accidentally knocked over a bottle of extra virgin olive oil and the glass broke! A litre of oil on the checkout! at least it smelt nice if it had been a bit warmer I could have grilled meat on the metal surface.

Create!

There appears to be a link between this video and the previous posting!

Though it would be hard to find two more different pieces. Roger Muraro performing the amazingly difficult 'Par lui tout a été fait' from Messaien's Vingt Regards, looks to be from this concert - that's guessing - but suggests the building is Saint-Simond’s Church Aix-les Bains.
Disclaimer - I have never even attempted to play this piece - though I've tried the central Lisztian section - the face of God behind the flame and the turbulence - well the bass chords anyway!
Thanks to r.m.c.r and Wayne Reimer for the link. Unfortunately the video and the audio are slightly out of sync in a few places.

Survive!

In extremely bad taste

But very, very funny. Thanks to Simon R for the link

Just trolling

The work schedule for the last two days has me down as professional troll - well the word professional may have been missing..but I have been out pushing trollies around whilst the usual guy had a trip to Ascot. At least it didn't rain too much and it was wonderful for observing stupid behaviour in a supermarket carpark!

Latest USB toy

Very cute and just bizarre enough for me to need one though unfortunately it may be a mock up.

Security - what security!

Went into a local shop this weekend and during the transaction the assistant got some information from the company website - and modified something else - the login she used was an obvious username and there was a 3 character password.
I suppose there may have been some intricate port knocking going on to get there but I doubt it especially in view of a bug that featured when entering the data. I was nearly having palpitations!

Trying to be as unspecific as possible....so as not to further weaken the integrity of their system!

Here kitty, kitty

Tabby terrorises bear

A black bear got more than it bargained for after straying into a family garden in the US state of New Jersey.

The unwelcome intruder was forced up a tree - twice - by the family pet, a tabby cat called Jack.

Shhhhhh!

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Don't tell one of my employers - the merchandise is ok it's just the use to which it's put!!

Busy....

Things have moved rather on the job front in the last seven days. I've now done 2 days with my ex-employer at their new base in Didsbury supporting one of their software products and that's going to continue on a contracting basis. Meanwhile I'm still working at Sainsbury's - and intending to continue unless the hours become too much. Currently wishing to decrease my checkout hours as for the next few weeks it is going to be 4+2 days a week and on some Sunday's I'm preaching doesn't leave many days off!