Disorganization personified, music, and faith and computing - but zero attention spa..
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
November colours
Friday, September 18, 2020
Mutterings - Sept 18
- Medical :: Procedure
- Half :: Better
- Purpose :: Defined
- Committed :: Relationship
- Month :: November!
- Focal :: Length
- Coconut :: Shy
- Confusion :: Embarrassment
- Separation :: Divorce
- Officer :: Gentleman
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Defying International law
I'm writing to you to express my dismay that the government is proposing to break international law in 'a very specific and limited way' - whatever that means! - over the Brexit agreement.feel free to borrow bits of this!If I were to break the law even in a very specific and limited way, I'd expect to find myself in trouble with the police. I realise that our prime minister has trouble with honesty and integrity (and especially via his unaccountable and unsackable 'advisor' Dominic Cummings) but I would hope that you have higher standards and will argue against this breaking of the law and if it is brought to the commons will vote against it.
If we do this - despite Johnson claiming his deal was 'oven ready' and all conservative candidates signing up to it at the 2019 election - to discard the inconvenient bits sends a message to our international partners that it is not worth agreeing trade treaties with us which can be thrown away on a ministerial whim. You are also all breaking your word to the electorate as well as ignoring the very recent manifesto.
If we do this how can we possibly criticise the government of China for not sticking to the Hong Kong agreement?
a paragraph of more personal information elided!
Saturday, September 05, 2020
Mutterings - Sept 5
- Jealous :: Dog (kd lang )
- Lucky :: Strike
- Road :: Journey
- Pushing :: 50 (or some random age!)
- Joint :: Pain (see above)
- Knocking :: Door (heaven's)
- Confused :: Drinking
- Happening :: 60s
- Stellar :: Reputation
- Jump :: Shift (oh is that a bridge link - I thought it must be SF)
Monday, August 31, 2020
By the canal
Mutterings - Aug 31
- Broken :: Glass (maybe spectre but that's a mis-spelling!)
- Sabotage :: Criminal
- Pass :: Card
- Corn :: Sweet
- Strangle :: Lock
- Books :: Shelves
- Relief :: Exhale
- Mountain :: Path
- Tomato :: Trellis
- Tablet :: Android
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Mutterings - Aug 18
- Alexander :: Graham Bell
- Driver :: Device (geeky!)
- Suck :: Blow
- Approach :: Landing
- Votes :: Up
- Mister :: Sir
- Low key :: Withdrawn
- Cameras :: Press
- Stint :: Arduous
- Carpenter :: Plane
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Mutterings - June 11
- Dish :: Spoon (nursery rhymes..)
- Crunch :: Bang
- Fire :: Sack
- Alaska :: Pipeline
- Heights :: Balance
- Force :: Luke
- Birthday :: Cake
- Sauce :: Gander
- Gift :: Wrap
- Winner :: Raffle
Monday, May 04, 2020
Mutterings - May 4
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Mutterings - 26 Apr
- Vanity :: Fair
- Healthy :: Lifestyle
- Tooth :: Ache
- Mug :: Coffee
- Reach :: Out of..
- Parenting :: Care
- School :: Days
- Whine :: Lunch (I get plenty of feline whines around their lunchtime)
- Hotel :: de France
- Nose :: Shostakovich (an opera!)
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Mutterings - Apr 18
- Triangle :: Isosceles
- Shining :: Tor (see Alan Garner Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and not too far from here!)
- Bunny :: Boiling (I've never seen the film)
- To do :: List
- Stuffy :: Room
- Shake :: Rattle (and Roll)
- Mug :: Tree
- Julia :: Thomas (knew long ago!)
- Hobbit :: Frodo
- Hope :: Tunnel (at the end of!)
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Mutterings - Apr 12
- Ball :: Bouncing
- Simplified :: Notation
- Wash :: Rinse
- Relative :: Safety
- Calls :: Home
- Lotion :: Suntan
- Compassion :: Generous
- Swipe :: Left (or is it right?!)
- Burning :: Bush
- Safe :: Deposit
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Mutterings - Apr 5
- Baby :: Steps
- Telework :: Remote
- Sleeve :: Record
- Corner :: Shop
- Ordered :: List
- Grasp :: Wrist
- Plastic :: Model
- Slide ::
- Communicate :: Face
- Pant :: Short
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Mutterings - March 28
- Good man :: Saint
- Static :: Electricity (or Variable!)
- Anxiety :: High
- Watched :: Variable (again - a debugger keeping watch on the value of a program variable)
- Heart :: Aorta
- First day :: Rest (of your life)
- Certain :: Love
- Forever :: Ring (Tolkien or Wedding?)
- Impressed :: Ironed
- Nervous :: Twitch
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Mutterings - March 14
- Wash :: Hands!
- Finish :: Smooth
- Veneer :: Respectability
- Symptom :: Cure
- March :: Scaffold (Berlioz!)
- Correction :: Facility (such a nice euphemism)
- Link :: Pointer (softwarey!)
- Chapped :: Hands
- Control :: Freak
- Licked :: (into) Shape
Sunday, March 08, 2020
Mutterings - 8 Mar
- Decent :: Wholesome
- Hypnotize :: Watch
- Whirr :: Clock(!)
- Baby :: Bird - the cats are getting ready!
- Solid :: Space (not sure what's going on here!)
- Take :: Heart
- Discreet :: Email
- Symbol :: Wagner's Ring
- Orange :: Peel
- Informational :: Sign
Sunday, March 01, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Mutterings - Feb 27
- Welcome :: Mat
- Importance :: Of No - I think I was thinking of this play which I've never seen.
- Painless :: Procedure (but usually not!)
- Scramble :: Bike
- Election :: Rigged
- Message :: Telephone
- Providing :: Comfort
- Evidence :: Preserved
- Talking :: Book
- February :: Snow
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Mutterings - Feb 18
- Flu :: Jab
- Betrayal :: (of) Trust
- Frustration :: Crying
- 7:30 :: Alarm (but I'm usually up before this!)
- Backward :: Looking
- Vision :: Clouded
- Freezing :: Fog
- List :: (to) Starboard
- Need :: Emotional
- Cougar :: Claws
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Teaser Tuesday - 13 Feb
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Let the book fall open to a random page.
- Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
- You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!
Mrs Ellis had spotted them: Tom and Gabiella. She'd been a witness, one of the last people to have seen my sister.From our BATS (book group) book of the month - `The Missing Girl' Jenny Quintana - we're currently working our way through the Author alphabet and this month is (surprise!) Q. I think this is heading to be traumatic if it isn't there already!
I see Teaser Tuesday is now hosted here if you wish to go and thank Ambrosia or get other ideas.
Mutterings - Feb 13
- Burn out :: Emotional
- Swallow :: Summer
- Tiger :: [came to ] tea
- Cough :: Audience
- Notes :: Postit!
- Balloon :: popup
- Signal :: catch (an IT computer language connection!)
- Cast :: Line (fish rather than chorus)
- Push :: Over
- Shiver :: Fear
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Mutterings - Jan 28
- Constant :: Gardener
- Tragic :: Muse
- Cougar :: JLR (Jaguar Landrover)
- Inspect :: Clouseau
- Stale :: Bread
- Verbal :: Abuse
- Annoying :: Tic
- Pace :: Even
- Friendship :: Lasting
- Jade :: Green
Saturday, January 04, 2020
Mutterings - Jan 4
- Pathetic :: Symphony (but better as pathétique!)
- Snapshot :: System
- Start :: Menu (oh dear this is getting very geeky!)
- Combine :: Harvester
- Assertive :: Manner
- Think :: Storm (maybe via brain)
- Storm :: (don't think I saw this line, see above) Mental. But I was tempted by some half remembered lines from Cocteau's La Machine Infernale - I see Cocteau associated himself into the last one too!
- Humor :: Sense (of)
- Regain :: Ground
- Resolve :: Firm