If you can’t do it in your own home, where can you do it?
Leicester couple charged with outraging public decency
We live in a strange time. If the same couple had been out “dogging” at the local beauty spot or the male of the couple had been down to the local public toilet for a spot of cottaging, not a hair would be turned and they wouldn’t be in court.
I think the parents who complained about the couple missed a valuable opportunity. They should have pointed at the window and said to their children, “Look, look. That’s where babies come from.” It certainly would have saved the embarrassment of explaining how a bird mounts a bee.
Oh well, I shan’t be dancing around the front room naked to “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” anymore just in case I get felt up by the rozzers. 🙂
Category: Diary
A £339 Apple Mac. About bloody time, I say!
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
I am not a fan of Apple Macs per se (the users are mostly zealots IMHO – a bit like vegetarians) and my biggest issue was always the price. Why spend three times the money on a Mac when you can get a PC to do exactly the same job? I would argue. Now with the success of the iPod it seems that Steve Jobs finally has grasped the concept that if you price your products right you will get more sales. If only he had figured that out ten years ago, I would probably be typing this out on a Mac. Too bad.
There was a sale at our local supermarket and they had a load of CDs reduced to clear. So for less than £15, The Missus picked up the following items for me and I am currently working my way through them:
Laurie Anderson – Home of the Brave (I completely forgot that I didn’t have this one)
Lou Red – NYC Man
Tenacious D – S/T
Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea
Not much doing at the moment. Work, work, work. 🙁 The weather is a bit bleak and typically January. Miserable and dark, but I am sure the first vestiges of Spring will soon be here.
Seen a guitar that I would like for my birthday in February and persuaded the Missus that we could go halfsies on it. It’s only a cheap Fender electro-acoustic 12-string, but I quite fancy it.
The last 12-string I owned was Yamaha model about 10 years ago. The guitar had a problem with the nut because the high E strings would break all the time and it was costing me money to play the thing. So that guitar had to go.
Been messing around with Reason 2.5 and trying to find some rhythmic way into a new recording phase. At the moment it is all very electronic. If I could combine the out-and-out electronica with the 12-string (that I’ll get for my birthday) I might be onto something.
In the meantime, some other poor soul has purchased a copy of my 4-CD boxset “Sows’ Ears & Silk Purses”.
Today, we plucked the legendary Lock lemon from our miniature lemon tree that we keep on the kitchen window sill. This lemon has taken about 9 months to grow and ripen. I used the new digital video camera that I bought in the January sales to record the momentous occasion. Below you can watch the footage recorded live from Chez Lock:
The promise of some semi-permanent freelance work yesterday was a real uplift and boost to the confidence. It was the ideal start to 2005. While I am not going to get rich, it will keep the wolves from the door. A new piece of office furniture arrived at Chez Lock and I spent the afternoon assembling it. Now my work/recording room looks very “professional”. 🙂
Took the Christmas decorations down. 🙁 That was depressing. Where did Christmas go? I know it happened, but it felt like it was over really quickly this year. The time is like water flowing through my fingers…that scares me.
Today, the new fridge arrived and our old monstrosity was taken away. Hurrah! I just unpacked and installed the new beast in the space provided. During the process, I inadvertantly sliced my thumb open on something sharp. I didn’t notice and was only drawn to the spurting crimson cascade when I noticed vermillion smears all down the front of the new appliance. Now my thumb decides to smart!
Just got to the let the fridge stand for two hours before I can switch it on. Not fair, not fair! I want to switch it on now…