Tag: Surreal Reality
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The type of rain that gets you wet
I found myself in a conversation about the weather today, with a colleague in work. She isn’t particularly keen on grey, damp and overcast days, which today most definitely was. Gloomily, she pointed outside the window and said, “I bet you are in your element today, aren’t you?” She knows that I enjoy the rain.…
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Joining the twenty-second century
Well, I must admit this is all very strange. New, but strange! I’ve been reading snippets of information about Windows Live Writer (Thanks, Trevor!), and with me being of a nosy disposition, I have decided to try it out. The format is strangely familiar, and after downloading it, I have got straight to it. This…
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February 16th – a historical re-write
A quiz question appeared on TV today asking which famous person was born in the year that Galileo died. Isaac Newton was the answer, and the year was 1642. I’ve waffled on many a time about the year 1642, and every now and then something comes along that reminds me of the year. Or completely…
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Aquatom1968 to the rescue… again… and again… and again!
Being part of the super-hero community isn’t all glitz and glamour, you know. As well as throwing out the rubbish, cleaning and tidying up the top secret headquarters beneath Aquatom Mansion, doing it all again in Aquatom Mansion, leading my double-life in work and other social situations (taking great care not to reveal the real…
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Monsters, Gargoyles, Dragons and Zombies!
No, I haven’t looked at my calendar and got the date wrong. And don’t worry – you haven’t slept in, and we aren’t approaching Halloween either! It is still Thursday, February 10th, 2011. Well, it is right now, anyway! I’ve taken a little stroll around Blogland this evening, and these are some of the creatures…