Harry: Part 2
Harry part two follows after the cut
Kitten, you're currently eyeballing the Dazzle category.
Harry: Part 1
This first bit is by way of an introduction.
About twelve years ago I asked my grandfather( my mum’s dad) to talk to me about his life. Unlike my mum who had grown up with all of his gruesome war stories I had heard none of them. Nor indeed did I know much about his life prior to my mother’s existence. My grandmother was in mid-stage dementia at the time, so by and large convinced that Richard Whitely lived in her sitting room, and thus I didn’t get to repeat the exercise with her.
I have been thinking lately that I wanted to do something with what I learned, especially given that I have spent a good deal of time lately reading about what was probably the most significant experience in his life (and many of his peers I imagine), the second world war.
I did consider just typing up everything, but I’m not sure that would do it justice. His writing style is un-fluid (it’s genetic!) and I think would be hard to follow, and I don’t want to mess with his words too much. That would be inappropriate.
So instead I decided to draw. There are words too. It’d be baffling without. My drawing style isn’t perfect and is idiosyncratic, but it’s mine and I kinda like it.
This is the first of five parts:
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago at 11:00 am. 2 comments
“I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?”
In these immense gaps between posts, which are mostly borne out of it being a complete pain in the bum to type a wordpress post on a teeny tiny laptop, I’ve had to entertain myself otherwise.
Posted 1 year ago at 6:16 pm. 5 comments
Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne
Earlier in the week I linked on my Facebook page to a BBC Three programme which I totally advocate spending some time watching.
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Posted 1 year ago at 8:12 pm. 8 comments
Are you dancing? Are you asking?
Clearly I don’t have actual parties because that would require actual tidying up, and being nice to actual people*. So I present the essential music for my virtual party.
If though I came to a party (virtual or otherwise) at your house, what should I expect to hear?
And for reference -I’m dancing.
*I’m not really that antisocial and have held sort of parties, but I, like many socially backward geeky types, get a bit stressed when people touch stuff. I prefer parties in pubs n stuff so I don’t have to worry that I might touch something I shouldn’t in someone else’s house, and so if nothing else I can talk to the strange lady^ who is in the loo of every pub I’ve ever been in.
^ Not the same strange lady.
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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 6:58 pm. 2 comments
In ur office not doing ur workz
Belatedly, and perhaps not terribly excitingly this is my new office (note the lack of “ra” and thus entirely SFW).
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 6:21 pm. 3 comments
Scanning the Past
After my very wordy last post I thought I’d share some old rehersal photos I found a few days ago. I don’t do well with flash, I wasn’t drunk. Truly. Oddly I think I prefer me now to 19/20 year old me. Although I wouldn’t mind the waistline back.
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 12:13 am. 2 comments
Is there anything new I can say to express my love for you? (very long post)
A couple of posts back I mentioned my “most favourite now dead people ever” lists, which mostly reside in my head. With that thought still lurking in my head I came across Time magazine’s people of the century, and the BBC’s somewhat dull 100 Greatest Britons list (though I quite liked the Brunel edition).
So I decided to come up with my list:
“The Almost (but not very) Comprehensive List of Some Very Fine People, Who May or May not be Alive (and some probably aren’t sure themselves)”
There’s 108 of them because I couldn’t knock eight people off. Not without feeling very mean. (Hence the title of the entry). So when I say this entry is long I am not kidding. Some are people you know, some won’t have even blipped your RADAR. There’s only one who hasn’t got a weblink attached.
Some clarifications. Just because I like someone for something they have done, does not mean that I like everything about them. It does not mean I endorse their political or religious ideology, or lack of therein. Regular readers can probably make reasonable guesses about what bits of individual personal ideologies I’m not struck on, but for the sake of clarity for lurkers I felt I should add this. So for example though I am a great admirer of Martha Gellhorn’s work and stubborn attitude I do not agree with her vehement distaste for all things (and people) Arabic. Etc.
One other thing to note I have skipped titles in an act of uniformity. Otherwise if I put Prof. X, I’ll have to put Mr Y and that looks a bit silly. Not to mention the minefield that is female titles.
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 12:51 am. 2 comments
Compass Rose
This was going to be another video. The technical hitch this time is that my ‘office’ has been taken over by the build of a new Media Centre PC*. I did actually film something, but since it was about my DVD collection it was in fact dull as the proverbial. Actually it was duller, dishwater would have been enigmatically fascinating. I and my DVDs were not. Plus it made, my face ache. I don’t know why. I honestly don’t. I wasn’t gurning with embarrassment (although I probably should have been).
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 10:01 pm. 1 comment
You are What you Wear
I’d like to invite you all (and yes that means you there hiding at the back as well, and anyone else too) to join me in a little experiment. I want to know how far your clothes express your personality, or don’t perhaps. So I’d like for you to do either on your own blog, or you can send me photos for popping on here, is show me three outfits that are typical of your style. You don’t have to be actually wearing them, and if you are you can miss your head off if anonymity bothers you. They don’t have to be what you wear everyday for work if you don’t feel that expresses who you are, this is particularly true if you’re forced into some hideous uniform, they just have to be the outfits that say who you are. Or what you feel says the most about you. I’d also be interested to know if you identify yourself with a particular ‘tribe’, either currently, or in the past.
[photo removed before my server is so full I have to start paying a fortune]
And if anyone is feeling a little shy I’d like you to bare in mind what I’m wearing today. And no I’m not pregnant, I’m going for what happened when Sienna Miller ate Vanessa Feltz.
I’d really like you to join in, I’ll post mine later on this week and I don’t want to be all alone, please let me know when you’ve blogged 
Edited to add: My email address if you want to send me photos laraloola”AT”googlemail.com, AT being @.
