Feeling slightly fretful this morning. I have an internet friend whom I've never met in real life who is having some mental health problems. Now for various reasons I spent a lot of my childhood meeting a parade of mentally unstable adults. As a result I started to take William Burroughs' precept seriously:
"Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless... Read More
For ages my moderately nice camera has been frustrating me by burning the bottom of some of my pictures. I know it seems odd, but that's the only way I can describe it. It happens when I do a burst of 5 - either to catch something that's scooting past or to get a range of exposures for making one of those ugly HDR images... Read More
I got a fat box of Moomins DVDs and I'm unashamedly watching them. Back when I used to watch them on the fore-runner of CITV I hadn't really realised that they were made by Communistic Polish animators plotting our downfall from behind the iron curtain. Clearly ITV realised though, as they edited the runtimes down by about 20% - obviously shedding some of the more... Read More
i am polish..... the u.s once had a submarine called "u.s.s pulaski (ssbn-633) named after revolutionary war heroe...(sorry commisioned) casimer pulaski..... my grandfater was the only boy from polean and actually me europian heritage is actuall mostley british.....
i am only joking with u....
but,
in its day ssbn 633
could have "parked" off your coast
and knocked britain off the map.....
Just read the Wikipedia article on that sub, which rather disappointingly has
"30 years of history go here"
in the middle of it. I expect it's not easy to find out information about what a nuclear sub got up to during the Cold War, though. It's an interesting situation over here at the moment as regards the relationship between Poles and British people. Many Poles are coming here to find jobs, along with many other Central and Eastern European nationals. I have no problem with any of them. However, even the fairly right wing, annoying anti-immigration types nevertheless welcome the Poles. I think it must be memories of WWII...
