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Door Chair and reflected me....from a visit to the Tate Modern a short while back. Off to a Greek Island with a couple of friends early Sunday morning. We need the break....and that snap of warmth before winter really closes in at home. Posted by Picasa

..called my surgery today to enquire, whether...as a lecturer/teacher.......they would...let me have the flu jab..........bearing in mind that the previous surgery I attended was very happy to oblige. Bit of a long pause........"Let me check" she said............ thank goodness they were decent enough not to play "CRAP...you're on hold" noise. " No" she said..."It's not government policy" "Okay" I said...."but is it yours?"................bit of a long pause"! Yes" she said. ( I sort of didn't quite believe her....but had to...I couldn't see her eyes on the phone). "You can have the jab if you are over 65 years old and seriously ill.....under 65 and seriously ill....over 65 years old and healthy" "Ah" I said " Teaching is a bit of a threat to health.....will that count?" She smiled, I could see it down the line....she actually laughed..........."That's not gover...

!8th October....and this is the crack of dawn.....very Peckham Pink..........crack....of. Posted by Picasa

Quite mad.....working in a college I get dodgy student flu, shit ugly collegue flu, dog face flu, flu flu the camp receptionist flu and now.....bird flu. What next dear world.......antelope flu, great ape flu.......flea flu....that's a good one. Doctors in the UK have been advised to plan for 14 million victims. Life on earth has one or two downsides at the moment. HIV/Aids, Avian Flu, Mad Cow....what else..........humans who don't doubt........more deadly than all of the illnesses put together. Oh and then we have all that ground shaking stuff that moves mountains and oceans......plus the odd rain shower or two that drowns cities. But still worse than all that is the dogma idiot. You know the one.....the one with a real intelligence...bright eyed........bushy tailed..............and profoundly ignorant.

Here it comes....another good day on earth. Bit confused though.......the date on the top of the page says it's Saturday the 15th October while the PC reckons on it being Sunday the 16th........so where am I.......in a worm hole between the two...in a place called Satsun Posted by Picasa

Sunday 16th October at about 6:30am Posted by Picasa

On the way home from work the other day the sky was.......well........filled with unnatural acts. Posted by Picasa

Big sky...autumn leaves...Rye Common Posted by Picasa

London looked lovely today ....a bit unrealistic perhaps...but lovely all the same. Posted by Picasa

Pakistan and the Indian sub continent has been thrown around by some massive quake....loads of people missing and dead...................Central America had a battering from wind and rain and a bundle of people are missing and dead there. Who will exploit these disasters....will it be the liberals or the fanatics or will it be both, holding hands and doing the dance of death............pointing a finger into history to lay the blame and justify their particular hate? London looked lovely today.

What a good ad for Coke.....Harare.....must be the show grounds....sometime around 1956. Posted by Picasa

Good picture of a mother with hands on hips in a Scottish river late 1920's early 30's Posted by Picasa

Bringing it all back home..............yours truly front row second from left....number 6 for those of you who can't work it out. Posted by Picasa

It's creepy how the days are too short now................the whole SAD issue begins to raise it's dark miserable head and infect the soul..................at least lets have some sunshine please..................not so fast mate...................that ole cloud is keeping me warm.......so what the hell do I want...a cold pretty clean clear sky with a bit of global dimming to add interest......or.......a dark overcast miserable bastard look that's at least warm? Not sure. News out of Zimbabwe continues to depress....infact its a long dark winter there under that bright hot sun. Why is it that powerful people are so stunningly stupid and the fairly bright public ( in general) that give these idiots their positions of power are so suicidally dumb. No no no............Americans or at least half ............based on the last election suffer from the same myopic chiken stare that North Koreans do , cavorting around screeching "My Leader is God"......or "Close to ...

Mother.......sitting between her mother and brother Andrew......somewhere in Scotland. Posted by Picasa

The man himself again with a dog...this time on a motorbike....somewhere in Zimbabwe at sometime around 1930's I guess! Posted by Picasa

The Gills..............Front left: Mom with Andrew behind. Anne with Ian behind her towering over them all. Posted by Picasa

Ian Gill...early 1920's Posted by Picasa

Strange day....it felt more about becoming winter than the last few days .........which splashed about in the tail warmth of summer........false sense of hope............however......hope resides in a break to a Greek Island at half term..........maybe a good week of warm sunshine before the dreary climb down into winter. Fine picture of the Peckham sunrise. Brought back a couple of books from Zim. Have posted a couple of pictures from them below.

From "We Rendezvous at Ten" by Blake. That's him again this time with a dog named Vicky. Posted by Picasa

That man again...this time under the prop. Posted by Picasa

From "Typhoon Attack" by Norman Franks.....the unknown is Ken Rogers.......Dad in other words. How come old Norm missed him out.......crap research if you ask me. Posted by Picasa