Peer esteem

One of my colleagues circulated this photograph with the caption 'Vole's annual appraisal'. I'm thinking of adopting it as my main picture. What do you think?

Plashing Vole reaches the White House

Typically, the state of US (and British) media is so degenerate that they'd rather talk about me than discuss Obama's successful re-regulation of the banksters.



I was merely passing through, on my way to share a fat cigar with Bill. I had no intention of stealing the President's limelight.

Namechecked!

Click on it for a bigger one - it's Trudeau's Doonesbury strip, to which I'm addicted.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

I couldn't sleep last night, such was my joy at the expectation of more snow. Enthusiasm wasted - not another flake. Useless Met Office gits. Not that this prevented many students deciding that it was far too dangerous to leave their pits. Those who did, had to soil their souls by analysing the Daily Nazi (Bel Mooney today: 'Why does the Left hate the Family?').

This weekend, I'm tasting life outside the Premiership: a box at Rochdale FC, then a walk in the Pennines on Sunday. Luxury…

Comments on my new vole picture and title welcome. Parataxis is the arrangement of clauses or phrases without syntactical/grammatical linking - seems perfect for my blog's random stream of thought.