Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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7th April 1941:
Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last cleared up, though this had been obvious enough when the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2011
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I was a little bit surprised by my weigh in this week, a gain of 3lb. I only had one bad day which was Mother’s day, the food options were out of my hands. But even the few extra treats during that meal can’t account for such a gain. I thought I [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2011
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Great A’Tuin is the Giant Star Turtle who travels through the Discworld universe carrying four elephants who in turn carry the Discworld:
The sex of the World Turtle is pivotal in proving or disproving a number of conflicting theories about the destination of Great A’Tuin’s journey through the cosmos. If, as the Discworld version of the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 2011
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2011
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By Alfred Lord Tennyson
WHO would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
II.
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb’d I would sing and say,
“Who is [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2011
