The debonair Basil Marigold's

Well, for those that may look at this site fairly often. I have now added my twitter updates on the left hand panel. I am a fan of Twitter as are some of my friends, you can follow them too with the following twitter names @rosiepop (a fashionista blogger, http://rosiepop.typepad.com/ whose blogs I may not truly understand from the fashion point of view but enjoy them from a well written and random angle, and hey I have learnt more about fashion than I knew before!). @paulbellmusic (a great musician, from notts, but now an exile in sheffield, the pie city, with his lovely wife @zoe_bell and it cannot be long before their daughter is on either, which has just given me a bonkers idea! :-) @LilCornishPasty the meanest homemade pasty maker, and fellow westcountry celt, though from the second county of Kernow! and her husband @TwoLittleFishes  computer whizz and also a great web designer, so if you need a business website, he's your man. you just need to search for these at twit...

so writes William Shakespeare, in, 'Much ado about nothing'. I myself am somewhat partial to a beard. It works on two fronts, as a protection against winter cold and as a mobile food locker, as you can always find something in there you ate 2 days ago that can provide sustainence on the go. A bit like a living lunchbox, if you will. Well, pre-Grapevine I was a little unkept and while camping decided not to take the shaver because I fancied a lazy weekend, this then stretched into our two week holiday in France, where I and my wife decided I could remain unshaven on the proviso that I shaved it off on our return. So here is the offending little fella, in its full glory! Now, due to the agreement, it had to go, sadly. But not without, as a friend on facebook said, without doing a mexican and boy, he asked, so I delivered. I have managed the two style combo, the first, as my wife pointed out was Geoff from byker grove, for those who know! Not my favourite, but quite a facial state...

I am having a major moral dilemma at the moment, caused, by my last visit to the supermarket. Would I be wrong in wanting to upgrade my trolley to have, for instance, a Eurofighter, standard 27mm Mauser cannon? just to clear the aisle a little?

hello, soon to bed

I was somewhat surprised to see that it had been a month since I posted, something, anything on this blog. Which at times seems a long time and at other times, it seemed a lot longer than that. Yet so much has happened. One fine moment was becoming the family with the screaming, beetroot faced child on an aeroplane. And to the guy who shot me an annoyed glance, to that effect, over the back of his chair, and may have found himself staring into the face of a man, who, had he actually followed that glance with one word about the noise, would find himself doing a charity sky dive, minus the parachute and in fact, the charity bit, more of a dive really, sir, I apologise, it was not a good time. I will not mention what I had planned to do to the french teenagers who delayed a five hour late flight, by another 30minutes inside the plane, it did not involve arriving in England with us, anyway. So I will put some thoughts together to describe how the family survived their first camping experie...

Now, usually awards ceremonies tend to take place around christmas time, or the new year but mine are somewhat different. It is a one off award that I tend to give out on an annual basis to those who exceed the norm and therefore prove themselves abnormal. So with little ado what we are celebrating here is the 2009 winner of the Tony Theaker 'Congratulations, you truly are the stupidest person I have encountered in 2009, with you unmitigated genius' award. And the award goes to the female owner of a battered camper van for the following, intellectually qualifying, reason. The mind which works this way can only win the award. Initial Thought: I need to charge up my camper van or provide electricity to my van, which I can do by plugging a cable into an internal house socket and connect this to my Van. Thought process 2: How to do this? Option 1: I will run a cable across the floor out of the house along the pavement and then attach to it to the van in a discreet and safe manner.....

as i mentioned in a previous post here and they choose not to call it, as I suggested, 'Dink', they called it Copernicium , after Nicholas Copernicus . a good choice, but I still think, 'dink' had more authoritas.