Coffee at Joy's

Joy's house is like an Aladdin's cave. Apart from the treasures they brought back from their years abroad Joy is very artistic and decorates anything that doesn't move like these bottles  I've forgotten the name of this particular skill.  Can you remind me please?  I have just spoken to Joy and it slipped my mind to ask her.

She has great skill with orchids - has about a dozen - quite old  and there are always some blooming.  We call her the Orchid lady

Political Perceptions

 

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

 

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

 

He looks like a female llama surprised while bathing.

Winston Churchill on Clement Atlee.

 

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

Clement Atlee

 

Political pun:

Clement Freud calling Mrs Thatcher : Attila the hen.

 

You realise you are no longer in Government when you get in the back of your car and it does not go anywhere. MalcolmRifkind

 

 My position on cake is pro- having it and pro-eating it.  Boris Johnson.

 

The trouble with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money.  Mrs Thatcher.

 

Liberals love America like OJ loved Nicole.  Republican commentator Ann Coulter.

 

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy.  First let her think she is having her own way.  And second, let her have it.  Lyndon B Johnson

  

If ignorance is bliss, then you must be one happy liberal.  American bumper sticker.  The last word may be interchangeable.

 

A Communist is one who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.  Anon

 

Gordon Brown looking like a bad tempered wardrobe in a suit.

Michael Deacon from whom I purloined the above from an article he wrote on the newly published Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations edited by Fred Metcalf

Political Perceptions

 Winston Churchill
 Clement Atlee
 Clement Freud
 Ann Coulter
 Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson

Yesterday was a sad, sad day.

Yesterday was a sad, sad day.

 

I drew the curtains in the bathroom and through the frosted glass could see a red glow.  Hurrying downstairs I went out of the back porch and through the hedge glimpsed an ambulance and a police car.  We wondered if it had something to do with the flooding but as time went on and the ambulance remained MTL said it didn’t look good.

Eventually a neighbour phoned and said that our opposite neighbour had been found by his garden letter box and it was too late to do anything.

 Roy was a most hospitable and generous man.  His great passion was railways and only recently we attended a party to celebrate the completion of a games room in the garden to house his railways.  He had already established a railway on the first floor of his home, with charming mountain scenery painted by his late mother.  We shared our home help and S told me he was full of plans for a big party to celebrate his 70^th next year.

 We shall miss you Roy – our enclave won’t be the same without you.

 

Roy Dunglisson 1943-2012 Requiem in Pace

 

 

Alice and Tom in New York

Alice and Tom in New York

Alice – a student at Florida University was to have met a friend in New York but when the friend was unable to make it her brother Tom – who works in London decided to keep her company.

 Last century when I was in Rhode Island I remembered the vituperation in a super market directed at a man with a pony tail and I asked Tom if he got any funny looks with his embryo moustache grown to support Movember, but he said there were much weirder sights to see.  They went up the Empire state building, went Black Friday shopping, walked the High Line, visited central Park and then walked the length of the High Line.

 
Central Park and The Empire State building I am familiar with but Google had to instruct me on Black Friday shopping and the High Line.  Traditionally Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and the beginning of Christmas shopping and sales; so that’s their Christmas presents sorted.
 

The video below explains the High Line.  Tom was very impressed and thought something similar could be done to about a 1/3 of Birmingham UK; where he was at University.  I look forward to hearing from our man in New York – Unbearable Banishment.

http://theunbearablebanishment.blogspot.co.uk/

 

The High Line - New York

Alice and Tom in Birmingham.