Hiatus

A hiatus for a few days, while I move house.

Meanwhile, enjoy a new Gerald Durrell book, long thought lost. Following the success of "The Bafut Beagles", "My Family And Other Animals" and "A Zoo In My Luggage", follow his further amusing adventures in "A Lamprey in the Undercroft", a collection of drunken maunderings captured on tape during his brief visit in the early 80's to The White Hart Tap in St. Albans.

A very small part of the above story is true.

Undercroft

Undercroft
Originally uploaded by Boggins.

It's under the house... only 2 people know how to get in there - let's keep it that way.

Heather

heather
Originally uploaded by Boggins.

Heather receiving her 5th place award for 200m competition at the weekend.

Heather said it was the hardest thing she had ever done.

That "Oh ****" moment

Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771) was probably the first person to articulate the words Boggins spoke yesterday when, while retrieving old paint and other noxious substances from his cellar, he realised that he had dripped PAINT, of a colour enigmatically named "Sexy Pink", all over the dining room carpet, across the floor, up the patio doors and along the patio.
The words, for which overhaul your copy of "Ferdinand Count Fathom" , and, when found, make a note of, were as follows:

"Oh Fuck."*


*it may be that your copy of Ferdinand Count Fathom (you do have a copy??) does not contain these words. For this you can probably thank generations of pusillanimous editors.

Ellie with Author

Ellie with Author
Originally uploaded by Boggins.

Lifted from Luton News of 4th May 2005. In true colour: these people really are blue.
By the way, why has Melissa brought a toaster to school? Don't they feed her at home?

Hunstanton Beach

Hunstanton Beach
Originally uploaded by Boggins.

on May-day Bank Holiday Weekend 2005.

And see the moblog too.

Buddhist joke.

Dead funny, I like. I share it with you. Joke here.
Well done.

In my INBOX today

Dear Boggins,

Thanks for your email, a very interesting blog indeed. We will take
your suggestions into account for future additions to the site.
In the meantime, you might like to see what our messageboard community
think:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?board=food

Best wishes,

BBC Food Team

Referring page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

Comment/query:

Throdkins! . Soon please.

The template: arses.

The other one just didn't work properly: too much javascript I reckon. You could only view it properly in fullscreen, and I had to take so many bits out and move stuff around so much to make it even half-work it was ridiculous. So I'm back with web-standards guru Mr Zeldman's classic template, and here I'll stay. Probably.

Hunstanton pictures to look at soon! Mrs Trellis is champing at the bit, I can tell!

In other news, Owl Pellets is, at the time of writing, the 2nd-ranked search return on Google for "airtight inspection cover". What a let-down that must be.