Christmas greetings to all friends and frenemies alike.
Enjoy this holiday gift.
After years of fruitless searching I've discovered my white rhino, my unicorn. That rarest of rarities -
A funny Asian:
Also, speaking of rare sightings, if Gypsytramp ever comes back on, tell her I still wuv her.
Ho ho ho.
'I am my own God.
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, the state and our education system.
We are here to drink beer.
We are here to kill war.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us'.
Charles Bukowski
Ok I'm just on for a second to vent.
A transition year student has joined us for work experience.
Despite details instructions, my car is covered in streaks from her sub-par waxing job and the pile of bricks she carried up the ladder with the hod was rather pitiful.
As for her sheet metal work. Forget about it
Kids today. Goddamn snowflakes.
Some of you may have been aware that the great American Poet Mary Oliver died today, aged 83.
I loved this poem when I was 15 and I love it still:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
RIP.
Best of luck to the Irish Hockey team in an hours time in the World Cup Final.
It's been over 150 years since we've appeared in a final, so many of that squad have since retired, but we're back with a new batch of green killa's.
Will our long wait finally come to an end this afternoon. Dare we dream.
(admittedly the wait wasn't particularly arduous for me, as I only found out we had a team in this morning's paper. )
Go on Ireland
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