Can we enclose this cooked food product
In a steel cylinder about twice as tall as it is wide?
Doing this in a sterile environment. For reasons of health. And thenTaken out of the equation.
Time's an honest friend
Who never flatters me.
Meet Micraster, 'small-star', a sea-urchin that became extinct about 60 million years ago.
These fossils are very common and they are beautiful. It's a five-pointed star but also heart-shaped. I still have one I was given over sixty years ago.
But a couple of days ago I handled the one you see above, and it was special.
Something I didn't know is that these sea-urchins were often placed in Saxon graves, as this one had been.
No, we don't know why. These fossils have been found as grave goods in other times and in other places, and there are records of them being called various things in folklore; for example "Shepherds' Crowns" or "Fairy Loaves".
So were they placed in graves for their beauty? As food for the afterlife? As religious symbols? To ward off evil? Or just as a custom, whose origin everyone had forgotten? Or in my fanciful thought, because they looked like hearts, the seat of the emotions?
But these are just stories. Whoever put this fossil in that grave, more than a thousand years, had their reasons. We can guess and feel, but never know. But I was privileged to handle it and wonder.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Please welcome:
Mrs and Mr Corn and their revered father Pop.
Three generations of the Ola family, headed up by Granny.
The Tabixes, Husband and Wife, and their new little baby, Wee Tabix.
For a cricket umpire
Over and out.
For the flying doctor
Over and out.
Passage that knows my feet
Gone!
One day the Temple Architect came to the Abbess. "I cannot build my dream", he said, perplexed.
"But if you could build it", the Abbess replied, "where would you start?"
There's a new double-action hangover cure invented by Billy Connolly. It's called "irn-bru profen".
I was in that exact same room where we met the last time
Before I caught the shuttle bus.
I can pretty well remember which of those round tables we sat at
I hope I shook your hand, not sure. At any rate I'd like to think I did.
The email shook my heart. The one they send round, thus, the subject line
A. Colleague
I didn't just hear your voice whenever I went there again, in that room
But often in dreams, like thus 'Hello Richard", heard from the next room along
Today I wasn't so sure which was the last table we sat at together.
Please don't forget me.
Say who
You wanted to be.
I hope it was you
And not me.
Noun
1. Something that falls well below expectation.
The judicious Autumn Moon,
Knows to look the other way.
Lover.
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autumn_Moon_(2982446021).jpg
My cousin bet the ranch and lost. After that he was a bit odd. People thought he was deranged.
The Pupil enquired "What is the Greatest Benefit of Knowledge?"
After pondering, the Master slowly replied "To realise that is a question with no answer."
As I said to my pet Dung Beetle: "Shit happens. Get over it."
Watch this space.
My friend got a cushy job testing furniture. He texted "Sofa, so good". An armchairish joke if you ask me.
I thought I'd have a nice little flutter on a pigeon race. Unfortunately my bet didn't come in.
Nasty accident Stop Shell cracked and bent Stop Reassembly action Stop Had no traction
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