Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Is this Blog Going Down the Pan?

Apparently Wednesday 19th Nov is World Toilet Day, a day one hopes is flushed with success. If you want to find out more then go to the website of the World Toilet Organisation

You think I am making this up don't you but you are wrong wrong wrong. It is just that my blog is prepared to plumb the depths that other blogs simply do not reach. I hope someone will contact a certain Professor not a million miles from here to make sure he has this on his database of NGOs.

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Brotherhood

I realise I am guilty of not making any comment on the momentous, remarkable events of the last week. But with so many people apparently uplifted and inspired by events in the USA, not least it appears, higher powers in our very own place of work, it really would be churlish not to join in. So here is a moving message (from 1965)from the great 1960s American Poet and philosopher Tom Lehrer which I think puts into perspective what it all means


Saturday, 1 November 2008

A picture

OK just to show I have done some work here is a picture of a mule spinning machine which I used in a lecture last week while pretending to be LDS (no don't ask).