ok it is the morning after my ear-candle experiment

and i have to report i. my ear is still mildly blocked (as before) plus also ii. i am not in any way suffering from burns iii. my hair did not catch fire iv. my flat did not catch fire
OTOSAN (wh[…]

ok i am PSYCHED yet SPOOKED!!
i. afflicted as i still am by CüRSE of CRåZYFRøG ear, i hunted round various “health” shops this mornin for an EAR CANDLE, but to no avail ii. then i wz havin lunch w.sistrah becky and quizzed her abt ear[…]

in 1823 william webb-ellis “with a fine disregard for the rules of foopball” picked up the ball and ran and invented rugby blah blah zzz
cricket was evolved out of rounders by an evil RPG-infested think-tank (interestingly but unsurprisi[…]

it has been proposed by a sarcastic workmate that my recent ear problems were imposed on me by the gods for the CRÅZY HÜBRIS of my FROGLOVE
i say a bing-bing pAH!![…]

it wz my friend rae‘s bday yesterday and we met – and in the end et – at the covent garden hotel bar: we mostly drank a lot of (nice) white wine (on the whole i dislike white wine) and when we got hungry they served CRAZY EXPENSIVE […]

my father’s father – a clever learned man who liked to present himself as bluff, sporty and no-nonsense – always wanted to meet a ghost: he planned to ask a series of tough questions, he claimed, about how they spent the rest of the[…]

AIM: To examine whether Beatrix Potter named Ginger and Pickles, her least-known children’s book, after her favourite condiment.
APPARATUS: Chopping board, sharp knife, small bowl
INGREDIENTS: fresh ginger, gherkins.
METHOD: Obviously gherkins[…]

i’m too angry and too sad about what’s happened in and near new orleans – and what’s been allowed to happen – to try and be clear about everything i’m feeling today, or anything, really: i always wanted to know mor[…]

i have an excellent coffee-table paperback from the late 70s called STRANGE PHENOMENA which has a cover decorated with falling fishes and tells many excellent tales eg of the French coalminers who dug a strange leathery bird out of a seam of living r[…]

or: the beast of hackney revisited
at the weekend i got an exciting couple of emails from a Mr GEOFF C. in ref. my “three skinned bears” blog7-post of august last year. With his permission, I reproduce an extract (my emphases):
“H[…]