And here is the evidence, m'lud

Paperface: how sweet it is to be loved by foo
Paperface: (but not bar, bar sucks)

iDunno: Paperface: crikey - an almost geeky joke!

mChicago: bar is better then foo
mChicago: apart from the fact foo rhymes wiht moo

iDunno: no. pub is better than bar, and foo is (occasionally) better than pub.
iDunno: ergo, bar sucks.

pro fratribus perversis

We're doing a few of the original Carmina Burana collection next week, and I'll be singing one of the 14 little solo lines in Carmen Potatorium (In Taberna Quando Sumus). Don't know which one, because conductor will allocate them. So now I'm practising a nasal tone and a German accent with added drunken-ness. Not an expert on any of those.

I'll keep it in the attic

Tonight I was painted, in oils.

It was not flattering :-/

Plumbing

Those of you who have visited here may have noticed something odd about the washbasin taps in the downstairs bathroom. It seems as though they have been fitted on the wrong wossnames.

Well, the taps are fine. It's the pipes that are wrong. That's why the loo flushes with hot water...

I had an email from Kofi Annan!

I was rather disappointed to see that his Swiss education hadn't included using a spell-checker, and his grammar isn't what I would have expected from his public speeches, either.

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From: kofiannan4un004@go.com
Date: 02-Nov-2005 14:35
Subject: CONFIDENTIALITY


I Dr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, would like to ask your partnership in reprofilling funds over $250m in excess, the funds would be coming via a string of selected banks in Europe and Asia.

The Funds in question were generated by me during the oil for food program in Iraq.

I have been getting scandals/ controversy in this regards, you can read more on the links below-

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/anna-a05.shtml

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main042803.htm

You would be paid 5% as your management fee. Please do not write back directly to me via my official email address. All further correspondence should be sent to my private mail box ( kofiannan4un@walla.com ). As soon as you indicate your interest I will give further details.

Remember to treat this mail and transaction as strictly confidential.

I will await your urgent correspondence via my private mail box-

Dr.Kofi Annan.

SECRETARY- GENERAL

kofiannan@un.org
www.un.org

Study-stuff

The long-awaited little chat with supervisor was not so little. Two hours!

So the plan is:

1. Prepare mindmap, using something called Tinderbox

2. Get hold of Endnote, software for organising research notes and citations

3. Spend a day or several reading in Cambridge uni library (because UEA doesn't have many of the books I need)

4. Draft Chapter I, exploring the Reported Cultural Change, i.e. the truth of ideas that
(a) Englanders don't make music together socially compared with other cultures
and
(b) that they used to.

I have two weeks. *Get on with it, you silly cow!*