The best laid plans

Yes I know it was foolish, I went outside this morning before the Sun had even thought about showing her face, you see the Moon was sitting very close to Venus in the pre-dawn sky and it looked too good a photograph to miss. In the end I did miss it, well I saw the moon and Venus briefly as the cloud flitted past them, but it was not long enough to capture through the camera. Whilst I was outside though the thought popped into my head that I could…

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For just a moment…

…I was surprised, maybe it was because I was a bit distracted and my mind had wandered to distant lands (or maybe they were distant Worlds, it’s hard to remember). My surprise came upon opening the refrigerator door and the light coming on, now I’ve been opening refrigerator doors for quite a long time now (not professionally I’m strictly an amateur door person) so why did the light coming on surprise me so much? Perhaps it started on my morning walk, as soon as it was light enough to see…

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It looks bad but…

My web site went a bit odd πŸ˜‰ So I need to spend some time getting it back into shape, I was alerted to the fact things were a bit odd this morning and when I popped along to check the theme I was using had imploded (I don’t know how but some of the relevant files were no longer where I left them.) The positive point is I did not like the website design anyway so this gives me a good opportunity to create a site I like πŸ™‚…

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Just call me Wonko.

Today I know how John Watson felt the first time he saw the instructions on the correct use of a toothpick. John had the good sense to change his name to ‘Wonko the Sane’ upon seeing the detailed printed instructions on the packet of toothpicks; he saw the need for the instructions as a sign that our civilization had finally gone mad. So he changed his name, to show he was indeed still sane and then built an asylum to keep everyone in. Wonko had been until today just another…

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