Strangely Perfect

Crikey! I Never Realised! Maybe certain days have relevance above their station and mere numerical nomenclature?  Who knows.  So read on.  See what happened today! 622 AD  – The Hijra of Muhammad Muhammad runs away from Mecca to escape persecution.  From this point forward, huge swathes of the globe took up Islam, Islamic empires spread [...]

Belle and Sebastien (Belle et Sebastien) This is the signature tune of a French show which appeared on UK TV in the late 60s.  For some interconnected reason, I stumbled on it and realised that I still whistle it now and again when it pops in my head.  I have to whistle it as there’s [...]

Initial Test on Bing Search Engine Following the initial release, I demonstrated the new Bing to Alice using this search here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=alice+rees&first=1&FORM=PERE The second result was for a Facebook  entry.  Naturally we had to look….  If you check out the webpage; http://www.facebook.com/people/Alice-Rees/787904218 …you’ll find it’s not our Alice…  but weirdly, the face is like one of [...]

My mate ‘Zippy Len’ pointed me to these strange creatures.  Looking half-pig, half-sheep, they could be called shigs or peeps but are actually curly-haired pigs!  They are rare – in fact they nearly died out.  They belong to Pig Paradise Farm, the home of all rare breeds! (contact them here.) Maybe after looking at these, [...]

Introduction While fishing around for some chords I came across azchords.com – as you do.  They’ve a shedload of Google ads and I accidentally hit the banner ad while trying to get rid of pesky popups (why do sites still do this now?)  I was taken to the website of someone called Kevin Hoeffer and [...]

My dwarf cherry tree, supplied by Alice;  and my bell. This tree has been so fantastic this year that I’ve taken about a million pictures of it.  Every time I look at it, it’s better than the last time.  So I took a photo with someone standing in front of it…. Bell by Buddhism Bloke [...]

How Wearing a Seatbelt Prevents Nail Breakage! This woman, Lee Redmond from Salt Lake City, hasn’t cut her nails since 1979, which is either incredibly lazy or some sort of mental problem. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records for her ‘achievement’. Pat Reavy at the local newspaper, the Deserret News, must have taken grrreat [...]

The self-named “forgotten middle child” Alice, has been a-busy a-brushin’ and a-washin’ the dog, George, this past year so much so that now he won a rosette for 2nd Most Handsome Dog! Apparently the dog didn’t even notice, the shaky video showing that his prime interest was the other dog’s bottoms. The show was notable [...]

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