Mike's World (brain farts and other adventures)Somerset moved into 3rd place with the cidergram showing them only 6 pints behind the leaders, Lancashire in the county championship. The latest win was in part due to the 100 scored by butler and the 6 wickets taken by Alfonso Thomas.
Instead of just selling organic food I think supermarkets ought to go totally organic and cross their equipment with animals. A shopping trolley would behave so much better if it had angry bull genes (angry bulls are far friendlier than the average shopping trolley). These angry bull/trolleys can be stored in the eager to please Dachshund/trolley parks. The hydra litter bins can reproduce asexually to form more bins helping to keep the area tidy. The squirrel powered card readers can be fed nuts that have reached their sell by date…
Sometimes people wonder what I get up to in my hideously long summer holidays. Well this week my computer decided to blue screen then not reboot. A glorious chance to go back to yesteryear (the 90s) before the days of computers…
(I am wondering what they did in the 70s before daytime tv?)
One of the more unpleasant ramifications of the phone hacking scandal in the UK is Alec Baldwin pontificating via twitter
“Cameron should resign. England is FILLED with people who could do a better job.”
It was kind of him to say this about me and my fellow citizens (but obviously he doesn’t think the Welsh or Scots are as worthy – maybe Gordon Brown is a case in point). However he is an actor inhabiting a make believe world most of the time which I think spills into his everyday life, hence his often odd views of reality.
Also shouldn’t he quit since I think America is filled with people who could act better?
Anyway I thought I would find out the views of more performing tarts…
First Cherry Bakewell
Custard Tart shares his views…
And finally a rustic Lemon Tart (the sort in the tart shop that you wonder quite what it is)…
When I am feeling particularly creative there is sometimes only one way to express it, and that is through one of my more creative pursuits, mathematics…
Art can take you to an imaginary land Far beyond what a mans eye can see Literature can describe such places so grand Drama can provoke feelings in both you and me But what of places beyond ones imagination? What about to things that the mind cannot picture Any method of thought that can cope would be fun This is where mathematics comes right to the fore It can see things both in this world and beyond Things imaginary as well as things everyday It is why maths is something of which I am fond Maths needs immense creativity along the way So if lifes beauty is something that’s much sought Consider e to the pi i minus one equals nought.
I used wax crayons for the first time in decades when a toadstool turtle hybrid came round to pose for a portrait…
(It is said that a bad worker always blames his tools and I am no exception. I have decided that wax crayons are rubbish and probably are best left as a tool to keep children quiet for a few minutes…)
I am moving on to a new job, not because I do not like where I work but I have been there 10 years. Over that time I will take many happy memories with me, but there is one that is far greater than any other.
To welcome new students into college this amazing crossword was produced, unlike every other crossword in history in this one the answers did not always cross and very often were not words…
e.g. 1 down INITIAL ASSESSTENT (helped out by the 11 down clue that adds the tent)
8 down UCASP (University Central Admission Service with a P on the end)
8 across N SUPPORT (even though the clue suggests there is no N)
10 down LRCR (learning Resource Centre with an R on the end)
7 Across is TWO WAY REVIEW, although there is no space in the grid for 7 across. Luckily it fits into 11 across and 11 does rhyme with 7…
Never in the history of a4 paper has one sheet of a4 paper given so much pleasure to so many people over so much time… it is enough to get me poetic…
The Great Familirisation Crossword
It is nearly time the time that i will move on And of all my memories if I’d choose one This will make me smile fondly when I have gone Its the stroke of genius and a puzzle thats fun It is the worlds most amazing crossword To welcome new students these things were sent Now some may think non words not crossing’s absurd But they can be in awe of the intial assesstent You can find books in the LRCR Get N support and college opportunities grasp Then after two years students can go far If they send their uni apps off to UCASP so out of the puzzles that have been done The best was for familirisation ~
You can download your very own copy of the crosswordtent to printout here : crosswordtent
