Bristol Vice!

I caught the news at 11 (on going to bed) and then followed up with some BBC News 24 on my pal Dave Patreus. Then I couldn't sleep so here I am at 03.00 nearly at the end of the movie Miami Vice!

A strange, long day of 21 hours and a bit.

Warning: rant!

Now I'm all for excellence in education and standards, and I believe the last Gov't had decent intentions in starting up the Academy system. What really gets my goat is the apparent belief underneath that, that to triumph excellence and standards is somehow elitist and therefore bad.

If you are going to promote good schooling why would you start with the wholesale abandonment of capital letters where they really have every right and duty to be? A great way to welcome your pupils.

This has recently spread to all those nob ends who recommend company strap lines and logos should all be lower case too.

Bring on the triumph of the mediocre and the average. Excellence and 'academy' indeed.

'bristol' my arse!

My new lock screen!

Top spoddery !

My snap!

Now I'm not generally one to spot artistic things but I am quite pleased with this photograph, taken by me!

I like the fact that it is a neat shape with floors going up and up, and the decorated garages coming out at 90 degrees. I like the lamppost halfway along and the blue sky above. It's kinda neat and tidy.

These are some flats near me and they are getting a new skim.

Bridges, trains and daft things will resume soon.

Wow!

F1 gives you a scary kick when you see this live on tv! Webber flipped the car and belted into the tyre wall just now. Phew, and he's okay tho'!

Spod!

Speedy Internet in the mornings - love it!

Running OS4....at last!

Hooray!

A speedy download that took two failed attempts, one that went for an hour and crashed, and finally , a 122 minute update that has given me OS4. Off to spod about with it now!

A bit tragic!

Now those two clever Russians at Google keep a list of all my Google
searches via Iphone.

These are my most recent searches and it makes for a tragic list,
especially the penultimate one!

Parp!

Dog in a wigwam!

I meant to blog this a few days ago.

This is Quaddie my brother's dog. He's a happy hound and his tail is
wagging all the time, often knocking stuff over.

Here he is on a walk in the woods checking out a wigwam!

Tough job!

So there's a Welsh born woman running Australia now! That has to be a
tough gig in a pretty blokey sort of a country.

Dude!

A Dude on the field (Golden Boot Mexico '86, with 6), a dude in the
studio 24 years on.

Lineker and Jean Luker; a late 80s pair of inspirationals!

L'Assassin....

Wow, that was a stifled game of football tonight (Argentina - Greece).

Greece were an embuggerance to free flowing football and Messi didnt
score, but blimey, when Lionel Messi was given room he was like a
sniper killer. Inspiring!

I must have come across him when I taught Assassin Special Forces
classes a year or two back....