And to pass, when her fair is full and fish and the oil unto Zechariah
Come, fifty loops in my god called to alive:

The Shorts are out! The Gap is Good! Take advantage!

RREF has been on a steady rise for a week with HUGE volume. Now the
shorts created a gap providing a second chance to get in on RREF.

Don’t be the one that missed out be the one who rakes it in next
week. Grab RREF first thing Thursday morning.

Alternative: Who will act as gatekeeper to the gatekeepers?
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
From the Robert Frost poem ‘Mending Wall’

Who knows where such words doth cometh. Senders now enlisted in the great book of Junk-senders, forever to be deleted with callous automation, unseen by human eye from this day forth.

The (un)shaggy dog story: The Friary School’s caretaker found a stray dog on the school grounds, so Hannah volunteered to sort it out. She called me as soon as I got home to take the dog to the local Vet. That dog was male and somewhere between a Lurcher and Weinerana, a beautiful looking dog with a calm disposition. He seemed quite unflustered as I put him in the car – more fascinated by the scent of Poodle than worried that I was taking him away.

Anyway, it turned out that the dog had got ID chips embedded and was registered at that very Vet’s surgery, his name was "Storm".
The moral of the story is to make sure I get my two hounds chipped. The Owner was on his way as I drove home.

In-class demo: these can go terribly wrong, but the picture below was done with a very small group and that makes concentration easier. It seemed to have a good effect on the kid’s work too, she was trying to complete a painting that had been worked on for months and not really going anywhere. Materials: acrylics (white, flesh, burnt sienna & burnt umber) onto cheapo brown sugar paper. Not bad for 10 minutes while I was talking to someone.

Michael Finnessy: Mars + Venus; the CD was delivered to me unsure that it would be like the stuff played by BBC r3. Having only played it once, I can’t say a lot, superficially it sounds like some of the Edgar Varese stuff bought a few years ago, and popularised by Frank Zappa. I don’t really have a method to explain it, but there is a vibrant space in the sound, the clusters of piano and other "classical " instruments, it mixes frantic energy and calmness closely vying for the stage. I need more of this kind of thing. Thanks to Here & Now!

Walk: it takes 1h 40′ to walk the 8 miles from Tamworth to home. Add a few minutes to stop and watch the packington pigs. I took the car to Tamworth for a service, planning to shop while it’s being done. Plans changed when they estimated a 6 hr wait- so I went into town shopping, then take the bus home. That bus left ten minutes before I got there, so I started to walk. I had this idea to catch the bus in Hopwas. Once underway though, walking has a nice feel to it, it’s warm, the scenary is interesting and the action builds a natural rhythm. I walked all the way home feeling good about it- those busses are so annoying, getting home glad I bypassed them.

Actionscript: I really need a usable book that I can learn Actionscript in Flash 8. It’s really hard to decide on which one, there are dozens. Any suggestions?

News: is full of a story that is silly enough to be in the Castle of Camelot when full of knights. The Pope has finally apologised for some citation he made in a lecture in Regensburgh University. While you are on a roll mate, any chance of looking at the Catholic Church’s support for the Nazi Genocide? Your organisation still has dirty hands from that one. When you have done that, can we go onto the next one on the list?
….this may take some time.

On the other side, what do we think of a group of protestors- complaining about linking Mohammod with "evil & inhuman" behaviour? It’s the bit where those indignant men burnt an effigy of that pope, isn’t that a symbolic death threat? Those chaps aren’t doing the cause any good are they?

They can’t be as silly as the Yorkshire hens besieging schools with their packets of deep fried chips.