Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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Happy birthday scotland yard
Lestrade in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Japp in Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series. Both belong to that great Mecca of whodunits, the Scotland Yard, which is a metonym for the metropolitan police of London, and synonym with the CID of London metropolitan police. The department was so called as it was located at…
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Lucky also– not also
noticed victory is always with someone who has prepared and has things straightened, and leaves a disorganized person. “Lucky Charm” SanFrancisco Graffiti Art Close-Up Do I believe in luck asks Plinky. What luck, the decide I decide I shall answer all the backlog of prompts the diciest prompt promptly turns up. In my life there…
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Mozzie banks the laughs
me casa suit casa Willie Garson Funniest show on television? Well I do not watch much of television, and particularly dislike the comedy shows as they are painfully unfunny. More obnoxious and rude. But some shows that are not slotted as funny have characters that bring a smile on the face like Mozzie in white…
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Jarjara– the arbor Mundi
Great aunt Kittadoddamma had her favourite narration of the samudra manthan and how the vatavriskha and the Kalpataru came out of it. She would explain to us how the Kalpataru was bejewelled and rich. As usual Param-ajja would snort and he would tell us that the kalpataru was nothing but the coconut tree which contributed…
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dear diary
September 22nd.2011 Dear Diary, Today is the day that world honours you. You are the conscience keeper of most of us. We document out happiness, sorrow, our growing ache and our secret fears. Many of us have recorded within you our observation of nature and our growth into our careers. Dear Diary, incidentally today is…
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International talk like a pirate day
Ahoy matey and proud beauty come across a galley the day is international talk like a pirate day. Swill a pint or two of grog and stuff the salmagundi in the name of John Baur and Mark summen, who gifed the 19th day of September in 1995. Be that a no matey? Ye get to…