Scarlett

This is my friend chloe through the bottom of a beer glass. Yes, she is normally that attractive.

To continue with the USSR theme, I thought I’d tell a joke told in what were the Satellite States when they were the Satellite States, but near the end in the late 80s. I think it’s really funny, but we’ll see.

Stalin, Gorbachev and Brezhnev are itogether n a train carriage, the train travelling the Trans-Siberian Railway. The train shudders, and stops, and the three premiers sit, waiting. After five minutes of sitting there, Stalin explodes. “I’m going to get this train moving,“ he says, storming out of the carriage. After another five minutes, he returns; “right, that’s sorted. I’ve had the driver shot.“ Gorbachev rolls his eyes at Brezhnev, and they sit, not moving, for another five minutes. Then Gorbachev rises, and exits the carriage. When he returns, he explains, “the train will begin moving. I have ressucitated the driver.“ Still, they sit, and the train remains stationary. Finally, Brezhnev rises. He walks to the windows, and draws the blinds, plunging the carriage into such darkness that absolutely nothing is visible to the three men. He sits. “There,“ he says, “we are moving.“

The above is a memorial in Prague, for students who lost their lives in the 1968 conflicts with the Soviet Union.

Debate has arisen in Russia over whether to bury Lenin, who has been lying, embalmed, in Moscow’s Red Square since his death in 1924. I won’t post the photo, in case anyone doesn’t like seeing dead bodies.

In 2001, Putin said,

Many people connect their own lives with the name of Lenin. Burying Lenin would mean ... that they had lived in vain.

But it seems that now, with his aides claiming that

Russians are not Egyptians

things may be changing.

What do you think?

Ever wondered?

Only about seven, we discovered…

This is a picture taken in Tecklenburg, Germany, on our tour there. The streets were full of these spooky ghosts and strange creatures, hanging from trees and across houses. You can see a picture of this same street at a slightly later time of year here from Wikipedia.de. It seems that Halloween is far more exciting in Germany than here in England. We haven’t even had a trick-or-treater although being back on GMT and it being very dark very early may have something to do with it…

pinkie has spent the week in Smisby with bigblue, and I realised that she will probably have seen our friend chris in Nottingham while she was there. When chris left us poor souls in Surrey and moved off to Nottingham University two summers ago, we threw him a pirate-themed party at our house! I made all sorts of piratey food, such as pirate-ship tuna rolls with a tomato mast, corny (that’s sweetcorny) cheese rowboats, pirate-faced biscuits, pinwheel sandwiches…ok, so that one doesn’t quite fit in with the theme. I also decorated a tresure chest cake, as seen above. We miss chris, although we see him in his (far too) long holidays. chris is studying Music, and plays percussion and the trombone.

This is the last of the automated posts, as I arrive back from Germany today.

A similar view of Paris’s* Notre Dame, taken in July this year. I wanted to post one of a cathederal in Prague, but it seems we didn’t visit one when I was there with bigblue and granny in June 2004. I know that many are still being converted back from ice-rinks and cinemas, which they were converted to when the country was communist.

*only Jesus doesn’t get the extra ‘s’

This picture was taken from a bus in York when I was at the University for Summer School two summers ago. It was interesting because as I took the pictures, the Minster would then appear with this unearthly glow on my camera screen!

In York, there are signs up all over the place about Guy Fawkes. “Guy Fawkes was baptised here!“, “Guy Fawkes stayed at this B&B for a week!“, “Guy Fawkes got p****d at our pub!“ they proclaim.

Look at her! Such a cute little puppy! So sweet, going through the bonding process so young…
That’s amber she’s holding, and this photo was taken when pinkie and I went to visit lucie with our mother and grandmother in April (amber is lucie’s pedigree lab). The day that we spent there at Manor Farm, amber had our complete attention and devotion, running around through the forest and then settling to sleep in our arms. Aaah!

I walked to the bus on European No Car Day, and took this photo of Master Park at about 0720. It was very, very foggy, and the reader in the bus said that it was 7 degrees Celsius. Walking home at 1715, I got this shot:

I didn’t realise that there was a fairground up, but apparently it had been for a few days!

It’s less foggy in Oxted these days, although it’s really beautiful riding up in the bus to Sevenoaks and looking down on the fog.

The en suite shower door crashed down about two months ago, filling the room with glass. Although the glass is gone, the room is hardly ever used. Peeking in there recently, I noticed the shower head, obviously struck down by a psychotic shower-killer. A closer look told me that the shower head had lost enough fluid for me to pronounce it ‘probably dead’:

How long the poor thing had been lying there, leaking from the head, I do not know. Pondering this, I left the case for a more competent investigator. This was just way out of my league.

Today I left for Ibbenburen, Germany (near Munster), having to arrive in Sevenoaks at 0720hrs. I will be taking Moli�re’s ‘Hypochondriac’ on tour with Sevenoaks School, arriving back on Sunday. This post, and others, will be automatically activated while I am away.

I’ve decided to reopen my blog again, seing as bigblue has been stealing  all of my good ideas. Luckily I haven’t shared all of them with him, so there are a few up my sleeve.

My latest photos aren’t updated from the main computer to the laptop, so this one is a sunset that I took under a year ago in Leysin, Swizerland. I believe it was just after Christmas 2004, so it’s a winter sunset. That’s just about two months to go, then! The weather photos I have coming up from about a month ago aren’t nearly so summery…

According to the site Mark posted a while ago on his blog, this is my personality disorder:

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LOL, Mark cheated on his and did it several times, but this was a one-off for me, and that’s my ttrue colours!

Please lets have some feed-back on last week’s Betty White Week, so I know whether to make it a regular thing in my blog. Next week can be another star/supporting actor’s week, and you can all decide!

I love Sophia’s ‘Thanks For The Medicare’. You can listen to it on this site

There was a really good episode on LivingTV on the weekend, where Blanche and Rose are watching an ‘I Love Lucy’ marathon. Rose has never seen it before.

Rose: Do you want to join us, Dorothy? We’re watching ‘I Like Lucy’
Blanche: Ih Luhrve Luceh
Rose: Well I’ve never seen it before, I just like it!

Anyway, I’ll leave you with this:

“Thaaaaaaaaanks for the Medicare;
For ‘blue cross’ and ‘blue shield’.
For a hip that finally healed,
Remember on prescriptions:
Generics is a steal!
We thaank you…so much!“

And here’s wishing you a Happy Day 6!

That picture Betty sent to me after I wrote her asking for an autograph for Granny Ruth for her Birthday. Betty also sent me a signed picture in reply to that, which reads “To Ch�, Many thanks for watching! All the best—Betty White”. I have another signed picture from joining her fan club, Bets’ Pets. That one says “To Ch�, Welcome to the Pets! Love, Betty White and Panda”

Today’s quote:

Rose: There’s something about her I dont like.
Blanche: Me too.
Rose: I think she’s rude.
Blanche: Me too.
Rose: She thinks I’m dumb.
Blanche: Me too.

Poor Rose!