October 2007
Monthly Archive
Yes, My Lord
Posted by gls on 31 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
Saudi King Abdullah visited Buckingham Palace, and he received a villainous welcome.
Repeating Ourselves
Posted by gls on 29 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: General
Once again, we found ourselves at Graveyard Fields this weekend.
Last time we were there, L was much smaller:
I’ve a feeling that, as long as Dziadek is here, we’ll be doing a lot of repeat trips.
More at Flickr
Wanted: Copy Editor
Posted by gls on 25 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: General
From the LA Times, regarding the first World Series Game: “This wasn’t baseball, it was bad reality TV.” And that wasn’t a sentence; it was a comma splice (or maybe a coma splice).
A few lines later:
“We’ve lost before, we’ll lose again,” protested Rockies pitcher Jeff Francis. “There’s still some World Series’ left.”
World Series’ left what? Hand? Shoe?
(LA Times)
Big Yard
Posted by gls on 21 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Diary, House
The downside of having a big yard is having a ton — almost literally — of leaves to rake. And when the back yard has 25+ trees and hasn’t been raked in probably years, it makes a mess.
This represents probably 20% of the leaves in the back yard.
Poles in Britain
Posted by gls on 20 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Polska
Kinuk is out of Polska during this time of elections but plans on voting in the UK — like many other Poles.
