small world

Midsomer Murders was great fun last night. They went to North Wales! That's a long way from 'Midsomer'. The helicopter sequence was like a tourism advert for Snowdonia, and I've had Calon Lan stuck in my head ever since. I was a bit dubious about the bloke from North Wales applying for a Home Office grant to rejuvenate his slate quarry. I dunno about heavy industry like that, but I know that the voluntary sector in Wales no longer has access to Home Office grants - the Welsh Assembly has its own (much smaller) pots of money instead. But that was a minor possible quibble. The episode was a lovely, cosy fun two hours, just like MM should be.

Also, Sharon Morgan was in it. Her daughter Saran is in Small's class in school, looks just like her. Always funny seeing her on TV.

Just wish ITV would air the show consistently, in a block, instead of tossing the episodes out here and there. They only ever make 4 or 6 episodes at a time as it is.

small world

Midsomer Murders was great fun last night. They went to North Wales! That's a long way from 'Midsomer'. The helicopter sequence was like a tourism advert for Snowdonia, and I've had Calon Lan stuck in my head ever since. I was a bit dubious about the bloke from North Wales applying for a Home Office grant to rejuvenate his slate quarry. I dunno about heavy industry like that, but I know that the voluntary sector in Wales no longer has access to Home Office grants - the Welsh Assembly has its own (much smaller) pots of money instead. But that was a minor possible quibble. The episode was a lovely, cosy fun two hours, just like MM should be.

Also, Sharon Morgan was in it. Her daughter Saran is in Small's class in school, looks just like her. Always funny seeing her on TV.

Just wish ITV would air the show consistently, in a block, instead of tossing the episodes out here and there. They only ever make 4 or 6 episodes at a time as it is.

memeage

Memes snagged from kelzies

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant. You're up for just about anything.

Who's Your Inner European?

You Are 66% Creative

You are beyond creative. You are a true artist - even if it's not in the conventional sense of the word. You love creating for its own sake, and you find yourself quite inspired at times.

How Creative Are You?

memeage

Memes snagged from kelzies

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant. You're up for just about anything.

Who's Your Inner European?

You Are 66% Creative

You are beyond creative. You are a true artist - even if it's not in the conventional sense of the word. You love creating for its own sake, and you find yourself quite inspired at times.

How Creative Are You?

poem of the day

One of my volunteers in work sent this in for our newsletter. It's rather touching.

Strangers in a Box

Come look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen.
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, and serene.

I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like?
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where and when.
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to pass away?

Take time to save your stories.
Seize the opportunity when it knocks.
Or someday, you and yours
Could be the strangers in a box.

Anon.

poem of the day

One of my volunteers in work sent this in for our newsletter. It's rather touching.

Strangers in a Box

Come look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen.
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, and serene.

I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like?
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where and when.
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to pass away?

Take time to save your stories.
Seize the opportunity when it knocks.
Or someday, you and yours
Could be the strangers in a box.

Anon.