Old Postcard of the Ferry Hotel Windermere

I have in my possession a booklet of old postcards of the Ferry Hotel on Windermere Lake. They are in a 'Duplex' book of ten pictures all of the Ferry Hotel in its heigh day. The hotel is now a research base for The Freshwater Research Association. I will publish some of the other photographs soon.

The Ferry Hotel Windermere Lake

City Building

City Building  Listen to Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s work long enough and you may wish to kill yourself

The Folks of DUMBartonshire, are Dumb

West Dumbartonshire Council Boycott Israel Councillor Bollan

Doesn't this clown know one of these authors is an American? or does just not like Jews?
Who voted them in?

Writing?

Celia Celia by Adrian Mitchell | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”

—William Carlos Williams

Fire & Music

Something sad and moving about this music and video
By the Fire

A Beauty?

Often folk say they object to the muslim covering of faces, but in this case I can assure you this lady is a real beauty

Alice - Per Elisa WOW WOW!!

Love Lives Beyond The Tomb

Love lives beyond
The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew-
I love the fond,
The faithful, and the true.
Love lies in sleep,
The happiness of healthy dreams,
Eve's dews may weep,
But love delightful seems.
'Tis seen in flowers,
And in the even's pearly dew
On earth's green hours,
And in the heaven's eternal blue.

'Tis heard in spring
When light and sunbeams, warm and kind,
On angels wing
Bring love and music to the wind.
And where is voice
So young, so beautiful, so sweet
As nature's choice,
Where spring and lovers meet?
Love lies beyond
The tomb, the earth, the flowers, and dew.
I love the fond,
The faithful, young, and true.

John Clare

Hot or Cold?

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them,
and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them
wrathful.
Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls;
and a beautiful image it is. They soothe, quiet, and comfort the
hearer.
-- Blaise Pascal

I don’t go to Funerals says Simon Cowell

I know one he definitely go to!!!

Googlw Wave Invites

I have a number of 'Google Wave' invites. If you want one post a comment asking. First come first served.

mad world

Bad Karma

US balloon boy

US balloon boy case 'was a hoax'

A US sheriff has said the case of six-year-old Falcon Heene who was believed to be adrift in a hot air balloon, prompting a major alert, was a hoax.

Sheriff Jim Alderden said the parents of the boy were actors and had put on a "good show for us, and we bought it".

New Books in the Library

"Please Don't Hurt Me" by I. Bruce Easley

"The Proper Use of Sunscreens" by Justin Casey Burns

"Allegiance to the King" by Neil Downe

"Bad Falls" by Eileen Dover

"The State of General Motors" by Mitch Egan

"Karate and You" by Marsha Larts

"Cry Wolf" by Al Armist

"A History of the Tour de France" by Cy Kling

"Explaining Yourself" by Clara Fie

"The Lumberjack's Life" by Tim Burr

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | New Jersey fury at Gaddafi 'stay'

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | New Jersey fury at Gaddafi 'stay'
Where will he pitch his tent NOW!!

Lockerbie bomber freed from jail- "The Hero returns"

BBC NEWS | Scotland | South of Scotland | Lockerbie bomber freed from ja
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, anyone who thinks this man's release is about compassion and not oil & politics is mad.
His son did not meet with Mandelson for nothing.

BBC - Newsbeat - Desperate Romantics 'the new Entourage'

Not watched this yet, but from the reviews and rushes I have seen this will be really dire
BBC - Newsbeat - Desperate Romantics 'the new Entourage'

Stupid people doing stupid things

It always amazes me how some folk can get others to do stupid things. In Trafalgar Square there is an empty plinth as we no longer have any artists able to place a decent piece of art on here. Someone has conned people into standing on the plinth and got them to pretend to be works of art. It is rather like these email scams which purport to tell you that you have a large chest of money in Nigeria just waiting for you to collect it. There are always people who fall for this and there will always be people prepared to stand on a plinth in Trafalgar square also.

One of the strangest MP's Expense claim Lembit Opik

"Lembit Opik
Sometimes you just have to purchase hil-a-rious wigs as the best way of using taxpayers' money. Opik purchased two pieces of headwear - The Mother of All Wigs, costing £19.99, and a Filmstar wig costing £9.99 - to wear at a charitable event."
Quote from "Ten Funniest Expense Claims". Not only has this MP a 'funny' claim, he also has a 'funny' name. OK i know we should not mock people because of their parents.