My French friend who is visiting, is a teacher for the deaf.
She communicates in sign language with her pupils.
“There is one thing I don’t have to worry about in class”
“What’s that?”
“No one hears me when I fart”
“They’d smell it though?”
“I walk away before they notice”
On my way to Sacramento to visit my music partner Christopher. Just before my long bus ride, I bought a pack of chocolate chip cookies to compensate for lunch. I took one bite and immediately spat it out. It genuinely tasted like poison. I looked at the ingredients:
“Enriched flour (Bleached and unbleached wheat flour, Niacin, […]
My breakfast was double-decker pancakes with rich Golden Syrup.
My lunch was a Mexican sizzling plate, marinated with lively conversations with top-notch people from Lonely Planet.
My dinner was a full course of colourful vegetables and assorted meats with six bacherlorettes at a gender-illusion restaurant called Asia SF.
It’s good to be full. Some times.
“Society is important because of Ubuntu” Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference in Manchester, England. Ubuntu is “…a word describing an African worldview, which translates as ‘I am because you are,’ and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled”. (BBC)
“If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most […]
My younger brother used to collect shining objects, like marbles, broken glass, stones (sometimes precious), glittering tid bits and the like. I used to tease him that his attraction to shimmer was like a crow, but I too, took wonder in the gleam of my brother’s treasure box.
I look at bubbles that swim up a […]
Back in the sunshine of California, we unpacked our small luggage that smelled of our rich fortnight in England.
I rang the Japanese family I work for to tell them I was back. On the other side of the phone, there was a firework of laughter, the mother and kids screaming “Hurray! Ayumi-san’s back!”
The children told […]
Under a canopy sipping tea, three friends from school and I sat talking after 12 years. It’s my second visit since 1988. Mrs. Brown came with her apron and a fresh pot of tea. “Its advisable not to grow up isn’t it?” she cheered.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown looked after me as a child, introducing “a […]
Policemen wear tall, black hard-hats with a large, silver badge of their district, a fashion that has been carried on for the last 150 years.
(Photo from BBC)
If you watch a court hearing, the judge and lawyers all wear white wigs, a trend continued for over 300 years. The Royal Courts of Justice took a vote […]
On the lawn of Rochester Castle we lay, idly watching floating clouds when a woman came screaming out of the public toilet. “There’s a bird in there!”
She came running to us for help. “I’m frightened of birds,” she cried. I followed her into the loo, and saw a large pigeon nestled under the sink. I […]
