Octogenarian hero – Peter Cundall

"Did you hear the direction before?" an officer asked him.
"I did hear it," he replied.
"Are you refusing to leave now?"
"I'm afraid so, I do respect the law but I'm so sorry but I will be refusing to leave," Mr Cundall said.
"Then you realise that if you refuse to leave you can be arrested," the officer said.
"I understand that," he replied.
"OK, I'm now arresting you," the officer told him.

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fassbinder t-shirt

we had a skull castle when we were kids. and i like a bit of bike porn. consequently, i think this is genius.

hot, homesick and haunted

well not really homesick, but away from home. spent a week supervising drilling in the riverland. nice spot. their limestone aquifer is confined. nice coarse sands at ~15-25m. shame the about the super high salinities.

how often can you say ‘dry as a nun’ before it stops being funny? not enough. my arms are even a little browner. and haunted! the homestead that is. enough to make me believe in things i never believed in before, and go stay in the pub. i got to drive a car with a flashing light though. swings and roundabouts.

how resilient are broad beans? resilient as fuck! these went in last summer, and while nothing grew in winter, and all that was there was blown over and washed out, broad beans survived to give me a couple of tasty bowls of mock bbc. tuff!

this post needs a video too. this came on my ipod flying home this morning.

so did this, but the embedding is disabled. its the better of the two songs though. click on it.

stayed with my parents last weekend. how funny is my dad? they were watching a bbc bio-drama thing about jane austen. i was in the other room reading old peanuts comics. dad came in and had a look through the world book encyclopedia, then went back and told mum “she dies pretty soon, so it won’t go for much longer.” !