Monthly Archive: May 2013

A-Salt-ed

I purchased a KFC boneless bucket for the late night workers this evening which was 12 pieces of chicken, four fries and four corn.  Twenty items in total. They gave us twenty five sachets of salt to use with it!

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We used one. Just on the fries.

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Not the worst phrase

But it still made me think it came without flavour.

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Bag Puss

Some more photographic evidence of why we call Darwin Bag Puss:

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Not a Theme Bar

But I so wish it was…

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Flight Suit

Saw this excellent Mig Pilot’s flight suit on an antique stall in Paris.

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Pity we didn’t have the money to buy it. Would have made a great base for a costume.

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Another Nice Sunset

Subset was nice this evening in France. View from the apartment window with filtered version for s&g.

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Another Kindness of Strangers

18 May 2013
On a train from Paris to Marne le Vallee

I am sat here wondering how, aside from using it in the title of this piece, I can work in the line from the Tenesse Williams play:

“I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.”

I guess I just did.

I am in Paris, home to the maligned Parisians, who some would have you believe are the most arrogant citizens in Europe. Some of those who hold that belief are British so the hypocrisy is thoroughly on display as I think we English hold records in the stuff.

I don’t hold that belief about Parisians or the French in general. Aside from knowing many nice French people I have also stayed in Paris more than once and find them easily as polite, if not more so, than Londoners.

So I guess I shouldn’t visit London for a while.

Today was a typical example. We have two small children and are hopping buses in Paris. We have had people help us onto the buses with the pram. Hold open doors. And the one moment than strikes the best, sat waiting at a bus stop and a gentleman gave Ben and Elliott a banana to share.

I don’t rely on the kindness of strangers. I usually plan ahead. But I do so like it when I experience it.

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Imprint

This unusual image is the coliuration and imprint on my arm caused by my youngest son sleeping on it in the same position for two hours.

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Today’s fun image

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Holy duck look at the size of the crack in the windscreen of the taxi I am in.

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Disturbing sign

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This worries me, who is selling babies and who is buying them? Also the website suggest you can recycle up to four of your children. We should stop this trafficking of babies. I bet Madonna will be there.