Green Curry & Pad Thai

Off to sun myself in Thailand; dreaming of a ladyboy Christmas!



BIG HUGS TO ALL N SUNDRY.

As one student –having written 'M' instead of 'N' for New Year– put it
Merry Christmas and a Happy Merry Christmas.

England! Champions of the World for 463 days

When Australia have already secured their Ashes victory by the time my Ashes magazine supplement arrived in the post, you know you've been outclassed, and frankly, you've just been given a damn good kicking.

I hate Ponting.

クリスマス

Trying to think how best to explain Christmas in the space of 10 minutes in second-grade English has given me some notion of how deep it goes;
roast dinner, smell of pine on crisp mornings with frozen toes, the echoes in Liverpool Cathedral, the choir practices of my yoof, the crunch of roast potatoes and glory of little sausages wrapped in bacon cooked in duck fat, THE tangerine, The Snowman, The Flint St Nativity, the Radio Times, open fireplaces, Classic FMs christmas mornings, mornings in dressing gowns, hugs and firm handshakes, cold turkey sandwiches, St Johns precinct the week before, buses full of hats and coats, steamy windows, frozen grass beneath my feet, stark white light, gliding through amber at 3.30, VCR programming on request, wrapping at 5pm on Christmas Eve, endless tv and radio commercials - till the jin-jingling can just jin-jingle off thankyou very much, the hordes, the HORDES!, Woolies, tv specials, bad cracker jokes, the good silver, the wilful group wash up, a nice cuppa, flamin' xmas pud, swapping coins behind the seraphims 'ead, untangling lights, the BOX, the Angel sitting uncomfortably, the whisper of the fire,

Hugs in jumpers to all.

All you need is love

[Mr. Jonathan is walking down the third grade homeroom corridor]
UNKNOWN: JONASAN!
[Mr. Jonathan pokes his head into the room from which the scream came, and enters, the following to be delivered with slowly increasing guffaws and much pointing at Jonathan's crotch]
AYAKO: Jonasan, I love you.
JONATHAN: Oh, thankyou very much.
AYAKO: Jonasan, I love you.
JONATHAN: That's very nice.
YURIE: Jonasan, girlfriend, no?
JONATHAN: No.
AYAKO: Jonasan, me too, I love you.
KENTA: I love Jonasan's stick.
YURIE: Jonasan, do you want?
KENTA: I love Jonasan's stick very much.
YURIE: What do you want love?
AYAKO: Jonasan I love you.
YURIE: Do you want love?
JONATHAN: Everyone wants love.
KENTA: Jonasan's stick is always excited!
AYAKO: Jonasan, please, me love.
KENTA: Jonasan has the biggest stick in zaworld!
YURIE: What love do you want?
KENTA: It's very exciting.
AYAKO: Please, me love!
KENGO: Football is the most popular sport ... in zamorning.
KENTA: very big!
KENGO: Football is the most popular sport .... in zamorning!
AYAKO: I love you.
JONATHAN: What about in the afternoon?
KENGO: Jonasan's penniss is zabiggest in zaworld!
JONATHAN: Oh... er, thankyou very much.
YURIE: Jonasan, you're face!
KENGO: Very big! Very big!
YURIE: Your face is red!

hmmm...

It's only two and bit times more than I've done in the last six months...

Elephants With Warm Toes

BEST BIT OF CYCLING KIT EVER! toasty toeses.

The crazed expression of the fool who awakes at 5.30am in December only to put himself through 5 hours of pain and suffering;


Today's clouds didn't belong.
They were Indian clouds, big ol' elephant clouds.
Way lost. But I hear the crackle of thunder - the BBC sound team are having a field day!
Rising and growing in dull purple and pink rolls; on the horizon creeping.

Way of the Dragon

"It's a really simple plot, of a country boy going to a place where he cannot speak the language; but he comes out on top, because he honestly and sincerely expresses himself by beating hell out of everybody who gets in his way." - Bruce Lee