Thursday, August 25, 2005 - Posts

Rural Idyll

This pic was taken a couple of weeks ago, when we were in St Andrews at my parents' house.

It's various people from my family in the orchard, surrounded by the wildflower meadow which constitutes my parents' back garden.  I'd name people, but Gary and his sense of paranoia has instilled an irrational reluctance on my part to use even nicknames.  So all i can say is that my Mum and Dad are on the right.

Miscellaneous things

Courtney Love pregnant by Steve Coogan.

I just wish that I could have hear that telephone conversation.  In a perfect world, Coogan would have paused, and said (before hanging up):

"...and on that bombshell."

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In other news, I was in Starbucks yesterday.  As I left, I spotted a wallet on a seat which had been occupied a few minutes before by one of a Japanese couple.  A quick perusal showed some 500 pounds in twenty-pound notes, as well as cards and stuff.

Obviously, I turned it in upstairs: I can't imagine how horrible it would be to be on holiday and lose that much of your spending money.  The next couple of days would be miserable.

But when I asked today, they hadn't even been in to reclaim it.  They'll get it in the end: the police have it now, and their bank details will allow them to be traced.  But who doesn't care enough to walk round retracing their steps for an hour or so for a full monkey in fresh twenties?