Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

I like the people I work with and they work so very hard. I have given each a wee present as a way of saying thanks. I keep waking up in the wee small hours and end up listening to the World Service. I guess that's why I am here now wiring into this Blog. I like having a Blog it just stays here like a dog on my lap. I made my first real Youtube film of me playing the organ. Its just a Simple copy cut and paste job of me playing Holy Holy Holy. I am feeling sad maybe its just sentimentality creeping up on me or is there something lurking ready to pounce. Giles will be back from Dubai soon. Maybe that's it. I have missed his friendship. Its good to have friends. Books can be like a friend. I re read Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle its a funny and intriguing book about the imaginary philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh.

Are you being served

I felt odd tonight. Heals were celebrating 200 years of being in existence. I won an award, Champagne, certificate and £100 in Heals Tokens. But it felt unreal. I appreciate the sentiment but the £100 deserves to be given to my colleagues. I will divide amongst them its them who have done the work. I feel strange and undeserving.

Torn in two

I wish that Stirling was not so far from my London home. My family grow older and its been a year since I saw them. Its good to be here but I like London. So Iam torn in two.

first fragments

Fire-worship.

Only twelve then.

Jack de Sousa

a while he allowed his mother to make arrangements for his

My best friend and co-expeditionary was Peter Marshall.

You will know you have one.

the driver

Jack thanked her

feed its inhabitants it was almost essential for a large city to lie near a sea

a congenial dip of my head as though I were sniffing a

waits

simple huts around the Palace walls.

around the room and land on the walls.

magnificent bronze horses from the fallen city as an adornment

had studied

fellow at the table

The chief stumbling blocks that could stymie the patient

Artist unknown Time Merthyr Issue Church, Partrishow

respect for the dead

nivel del aceite....oil level

Rincewind had a feeling that some sort of trap was

esta en la plaza Mayor

mercenaries or something, right?

nozzle on the little fountain in the centre of the courtyard; otherwise

these things to Laura, they would have seemed

he said was an obsession with order

time reversed waves from the edges of the screen; the castle

ignorant people could put a rug on a cow

running errands, or even serving regular customers.

weave into gold by the following morning

discovered that the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but that it must be

lives and want to give something back

lyric with Arthur Jackson

Qumran was an extreme wing of the Essene movement

kept my attention riveted upon the body

objectively?

assembly rooms

As you will, Livesay,

behind it, the first and biggest courtyard of the whole complex

with settled accommodation

for your little ones

his wet pajamas, he returned to his room and dressed

standing by an oil lamp in A Piece of Monologue

he's got a nice way with him, but he's a bit of a sheep

But as the son, the onus to visit was surely on him

orchestral suites, Woodland scenes

in 19th century

Towyn, Foryd Road

field of vision and the room turned on its side

with some competence in the English language, dealing with

There weren't even any intersections, but every few kilo

eighteen year olds who must have thought it rather a lark to visit a girls' school

because you were confused?

by snow reflects almost all sunlight falling on it back

you're being very helpful and I really appreciate this

could make it work

serious faced at the security men

white upon them

slipping loose of the steering wheel

for Cilla to cry on, after she'd dumped the beast in question

Natalie kicked it gently as if to check for signs of life.

I don't know

He suddenly seemed bashful

Butchering

did not want to quiet him

will understand

It's all right he mumbled

But as the son, the onus to visit was surely on him

hallucinating

a little larger than necessary

on his chair

She doesn't like pubs

and staring up at her with undisguised loathing for trying to stop

often serve as bedrooms as well

walks across the stage with a bottle of champagne and presents it to me

trochaic substitutions can be cumbersome

and vulgarized elements of Art Deco

A snowy conflict

We stood in small numbers in minus conditions singing advent songs and Christmas Carols. The hoar frost gnawed away at us for an hour until the biting wind and snow forced us to quit. A man enrobed in a downy moaned at us for pinching his patch it was both comical and sad that in our attempt to raise money for AIDS orphans in South Africa we were encroaching on his begging. A moral dilemma, he complained that we were not singing songs he knew just as we started singing Hark the Herald. Later he started mocking our singing by pretending to sing. We have a few more days of this. Luckily we are up to the challenge but the moral conflict grabs my sense of the absurd. There are rumours that the weather it is going to get worse.

Gods Particle

The BBC love this thing...I do hope when they start it up we get sucked into a black hole...I could do with a change of address, a fresh start. This is today's article from the Beeb..."

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could restart as early as this weekend after more than a year of repairs.

Officials have avoided giving an exact date for sending beams of protons around the 27km (17 mile) circular tunnel which houses the collider.

The LHC was first switched on in 2008, but had to be shut down when a faulty electrical connection caused one tonne of helium to leak into the tunnel.

The vast machine is located 100m below the French-Swiss border.

Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the LHC will recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang.

Two beams of protons will be fired around the tunnel. These beams will travel in opposite directions around the main "ring" at close to the speed of light.

At allotted points around the tunnel, the proton beams will cross paths, smashing into one another with enormous energy.

Scientists hope to see new particles in the debris of these collisions, revealing fundamental new insights into the nature of the cosmos.

But the first beams to circulate around the collider will be injected at a low energy of about 450 billion electron volts.

For the restart, engineers are determined to take things one step at a time, and officials are not setting hard and fast deadlines.

Once the collider is circulating two beams in opposite directions, engineers will attempt low-intensity collisions.

This will provide scientists with data they can use for calibration purposes.

After this, the beams' energy will be increased so that the first high-energy collisions can take place.

These will mark the real beginning of the LHC's research programme."

Boooooooooom!!!!!!!!......Enid Blyton would be proud of all those exclamation marks.

Shards of Oz

Circular Quay
Ferries
Gallery M (art sale)
Nurses walk
Crystal Galleries
Museum of Sydney
Bridge street
Edge of the trees
Sculpture
Janet Laurence
Conservatoire of Music
A White castle with battlements (a child's idea of a castle)
Botanic garden
Orchids and carnivorous plants
Sex and death
Noisy bats (flying foxes)
Trains (double decker)
Liverpool to Central
The back of the train seats swing over to change direction of seating.
Auburn
Mosque
Olympic track
Lido
Lidcombe
gamblinghangover.nsw.gov.au
lewisham
stanmore
China town
Darling Harbour
Chinese Garden
Pagoda
Pretend train
Tumbalong Park
Fountain
Ibis
Exhibition centre
Maritime museum
Wildlife World
Aqaurium
King Street Wharf
Newcastle Steam ship company
Sydney Showboat
SYDNEY MARATHON Sunday September 21 2008
WWW.Barangaroo.com
Hickson road
Sydney theatre
Dance company
Philharmonic choir
Roundabout instelation
Large Ford Car crushed by a huge boulder
(Jimmie Durham, still life with stone and car)
Walsh bay
Sculpture walk
Metcalfe Arcade
Satchi Satchi
seargent Major Row
Museum of contemporary art
Circular Quay RS
Sydney Opera House
Stanmore
Man takes his ferret for a walk
Butcher Bird whacked me on the head
Feeding minor birds mince
Mossvale
Brigadoon in Bundanoon
Mittagong
Southern Highlands
Shale Mining
Wine region
I am possessed with possessions
Don Bradman
Bradman foundation
didyabringabearalong
Ned Kelly
Featherdale
Gal Crescent
MacMillan Park
Ernie Smith Reserve
Anzac Creek
Bush regeration
Skate boarding
Lewins bridge
Georges river
Custom house
plastic floor
3d version of Sydney
Platform 2 Circular Quay amazing view of Sydney Bridge and Opera House
Museum station (looks as if it fell out of the London Underground)
Walter Berry Griffith
Frank Loyd Wright
War Memorial
John Simpson Kirkpatrick
Gallipoli
Anzac Cove
Gervais Koffi
Yanick Koffi 9 yrs old
brilliant talent
bass player and keyboard
Aussibum
wonderful people

want to go back for good
xxx