Category: Random
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No smile but plenty of laughs
My new driving licence arrived this morning. Aquatom1968 now looks like a criminal mastermind of the underworld. Luckily, I only have to carry the thing around with me for the next ten years, when it can be cut in two, as my old, and very faithful, previous one was last weekend. And extremely unceremoniously it…
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Ten by Fifty
This is my five hundredth post! With Talestream, I’ve posted a few more than 500 times, and with comments here and on other blogs, I suppose the count could be pushed up slightly higher, but this is my official 500th post! Go me! So, to celebrate this bluey-greenish milestone, I have decided to write about…
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I’m no writer…
I’m no writer but I can put a sentence together. I can also put a sentence together wrong. No big deal. I like writing, and when inspiration is flowing through me I can very easily lose myself in the clicks of the keys on the keyboard and my thoughts as to where I’m going to…
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Time Travelling
Apparently, ‘they’ have said that time travel isn’t possible. That must be it then. If ‘they’ say it’s not possible, it mustn’t be. Similar ‘theys’ once said travelling to the Moon wasn’t possible, and we have now gone further than that. Similar ‘theys’ said man wouldn’t fly. They were wrong then. Presumably, early ‘theys’ thought…
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Ode to an aching knee
Oh, knee, I ask thee why must thou throb Whence I stand and walk or hobble ’Tis fine whilst seated and after several steps So why must thou caust me trouble? A heat you bring within my leg A warmth that’s not so fair Whence I happen perchance to walk A steppe or two from…
The Mansionic Perspective 