I’ve recently had two rather odd things happen on this subject. The first was when I emailed Prime TV to ask about the cow they feature as a break between programmes. She’s a Jersey cow, and I was interested. I wrote to them thus – “Prime TV shows a jersey cow on the change between …
Category: This occurred to me
How to Become Paranoid.
It occurred to me the other day, that this can be easy, I’d taped a movie to watch the next day, and also begun reading a book. The combination had me with, once I’d finished both, an uneasy feeling at the back of my neck. The movie was Die Hard 4.0 in which Bruce Willis …
What’s Fair and Right. A brief cynical look at a few expectations.
Good authors whose work you love have no right to stop writing and/or die… until you die. People who have rented you a house for many happy years – have no right to sell the darn place so you have to move at great inconvenience and expense. New Zealand publishers have no right to reject …
Keeping the Old Folks at Home
Last year it occurred to me that now I’m officially retired and on a pension a short-term job could be interesting. I’m single, and I don’t mind taking the occasional risk. So, discovering that a special type of security firm is situated an hour’s drive from here I applied to them and offered to accept …
NOT A HAPPY CAMPER!
Recently I received a grocery catalogue and as usual read my way through – to discover an offer that appealed to me. I was offered two bags of cat biscuits by a manufacturer whose products I usually buy in a different brand. The two bags were offered at a slightly lower price for the duo …
Triviating
Trivia is what newspapers tend to print when they need a space filler. Some items are information, others are odd items, and others are plain incorrect. There’s a sub-set of these which celebrate the really peculiar laws that have been enacted at some time or another in various countries, states, provinces, or counties. And one …
Staying in Contact
It occurred to me to wonder, as I posted another letter to Thunder’s original family, how many people stay in contact with their cat’s previous people? Where possible, I do. I know that they probably loved him and hope he went to a home where he’d be cared for, loved, and looked after. But if …
You Have To Accept This Job.
I’m not and never was against legalizing prostitution but at the time of the law change I commented to friends that it could make problems in areas that the law-makers hadn’t thought of. An example of this has just occurred overseas when a German teenager looking for a job was told to report for duty …
Great Escapes
I was watching a new TV programme last week on Great Animal Escapes and was very amused at the escapades of an African honey badger, who, it seemed, had got that down pat. Time and time again when a keeper forgot a broom or shovel, the Honey Badger would carry it to his wall, stand …
With Goodwill to All?
It occurs to me to wonder about New Zealand National Television again this year. I wonder about them every third year or so when, over the Christmas/New Year break, their goodwill towards all seems to be in short supply. In what way, you may ask? Take this year. We had movies, :2012 (Mayan Prophecy comes …