Strangely Perfect

Always worth a visit! Especially on a cold, foggy morning! Winter’s Gibbet, Elsdon, Northumberland, England, Uk in England And here is a picture from several years ago on one of my visits.

Northumberland Northumberland is a lovely place – cold, sunny, windy, dry, overcast, damp, clear, clean and historic.  But mainly brrr  and wow!  Especially on the coast. It’s quite popular with tourists.  Here’s why I go there… …why do the fuckwits? The historic island of Lindisfarne (Holy Island) is connected to the mainland via a tarmac [...]

Introduction So it’s time to move… It’s time to get down with it… It’s time to testify.. …and I want to know… ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY? Brothers and sisters… I give you.. A testimonial… The MC5! With a vague resemblance to my personal life and status, and a bit like “technology mirroring life”, this [...]

MP Expenses and Privileges Scandal Let’s make one thing absolutely clear: Apart from 635 MPs and the somewhat fewer UK MEPs, NOT ONE PERSON IN BRITAIN THINKS ANY DIFFERENTLY FROM ME! *** We all think that they’re all a bunch of spivving crooks who’ve let everyone down.  To compound the felony, they will even get paid [...]

The Intense Debate Install Story Along with some theme and plugins changes I’ve recently done, I’ve also had a play with Intense Debate (ID), a system complete with WordPress plugin for managing comments. Phase One Last week using my old theme I couldn’t get anywhere with the comment import. It kept crashing out at 9% [...]

Introduction I’ve been busy this weekend having a twiddle with the site appearance.  I got a bit fed up with dragons so now it’s an anachronistic mix of Edinburgh Rock shades and the Gallows!  There are a shedload of random photos sliced into the header taken by me, Strangely Perfect, using my new Panasonic TZ5.  [...]

Highlighting the Differences in Public Health provision, the Attitudes to Death and Responsibilities of the State and the Individual to Public Welfare. The title is the biggest bit – trust me. Introduction This takes us from today’s news from America and the Duffy’s Cut project to a tiny hamlet in Northumberland, England, called Throckrington. Duffy’s [...]

One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know – and I’m no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig: View Larger Map ….and this is a dude in a farty twat car, debating whether to [...]

I’m absolutely certain that the “British Character” would be not so magnanimous if our country had been over-run and fought over by say…Iran fighting Iraq, for example. What Do I mean? Today on BBC News, there is a report about a previous British War “Campaign” (I hate that word): Iraq presents a lesson from history [...]

Following on from a rapid two day whizz oop North (where it’s grim), I can confirm that it is indeed cold and wet. Time constraints meant I couldn’t visit anyone except close family.  Some may be glad at this eventuality, some maybe sad..   The low point of the trip I’ll leave for another time.  [...]

Cupboard cleanout. Dust of ages. Mists of time. Tape of hissiness. This is the Crawling Chaos, Magnum Innoninandum cassette cover, the second hard release from Crawling Chaos, producers of innovative music originating from Northumberland.  This follows on from the Green tape. It is really a statement of intent. Q.  How do I feel about it, [...]

Describes how New York, Washington and Moscow are all actually only 20 miles apart!

Sorry. What I meant to say is: “Why, if ordinary people lie and are punished for it, do public people lie and apparently get away with it, so much so that people think it normal behaviour?” Or, in other words: Why do the media not use the word “LIE” , anymore? Two recent lying events [...]

This link to the wayback machine shows one of the inaccuracies that the Crawling Chaos website was created to correct. I’ve posted it here as the blog bloke (Jo Kyle) can’t be bothered to keep things on track, organised or reply to my posts … Compare and contrast to the Crawling Chaos – Myths page [...]