Here comes Easter!

Ah, Maundy Thursday. To a civil servant in England that can only mean one thing: half day holiday, hurrah! I shall be skedaddling around two o’clock this afternoon and wending my way up the West End to peruse the wares in Forbidden Planet so that I shan’t need to leave the confines of Whetstone for the next few days.

Colleague Alex, youth that he is, hadn’t appreciated the import of Maundy Thursday (he has been in the service for less than a year, so it hasn’t become ingrained in the lad to look up and seize every public and privilege holiday going) and he is cheerily looking it up on Wikipaedia (it is a sad reflection on modern education that he didn’t know of Maundy Thursday quite apart from the all-important half day holiday).

It wasn’t the bit about the Queen doling out Maundy Money to selected representatives of the elderly deserving poor (only a few pence in face value to be sure, but what value on eBay, if only that generation had any concept of teh intarweb) that caught his imagination, but rather the fact that in the time of James II the sovereign would wash their feet, too. The mental image of Brenda scrubbing old Elsie’s bunions caused some mirth, I can tell you.

Such is the life of a civil servant.

Here comes Easter!

Ah, Maundy Thursday. To a civil servant in England that can only mean one thing: half day holiday, hurrah! I shall be skedaddling around two o’clock this afternoon and wending my way up the West End to peruse the wares in Forbidden Planet so that I shan’t need to leave the confines of Whetstone for the next few days.

Colleague Alex, youth that he is, hadn’t appreciated the import of Maundy Thursday (he has been in the service for less than a year, so it hasn’t become ingrained in the lad to look up and seize every public and privilege holiday going) and he is cheerily looking it up on Wikipaedia (it is a sad reflection on modern education that he didn’t know of Maundy Thursday quite apart from the all-important half day holiday).

It wasn’t the bit about the Queen doling out Maundy Money to selected representatives of the elderly deserving poor (only a few pence in face value to be sure, but what value on eBay, if only that generation had any concept of teh intarweb) that caught his imagination, but rather the fact that in the time of James II the sovereign would wash their feet, too. The mental image of Brenda scrubbing old Elsie’s bunions caused some mirth, I can tell you.

Such is the life of a civil servant.

Pointless request

For just over a month now, I have ahad a cluster map sitting on my Profile page recording the locations (though not identities) of people who visit this journal. The red blob over England is now truly impressive and makes the southern part of the UK look as though it has been nuked from orbit. There are a few other spots on the map - three in the USA, one in Germany and one that may be Denmark or Sweden - it's hard to say on the scale of the map and one in Norn Iron which must be keresaspa.

I was just wondering if people (especially if you don't live in the UK) reading this could just click on the link below, please. You needn't stay and read (though you are quite welcome if you decide to), because you will have the stuff popping up on your friends' page anyway, but it will drop a marker on the map when it next updates and it would be nice to see the geographical spread.

Damn it, it will make the map look pretty!

Thanks, awfully.

http://caddyman.livejournal.com/

Pointless request

For just over a month now, I have ahad a cluster map sitting on my Profile page recording the locations (though not identities) of people who visit this journal. The red blob over England is now truly impressive and makes the southern part of the UK look as though it has been nuked from orbit. There are a few other spots on the map - three in the USA, one in Germany and one that may be Denmark or Sweden - it's hard to say on the scale of the map and one in Norn Iron which must be keresaspa.

I was just wondering if people (especially if you don't live in the UK) reading this could just click on the link below, please. You needn't stay and read (though you are quite welcome if you decide to), because you will have the stuff popping up on your friends' page anyway, but it will drop a marker on the map when it next updates and it would be nice to see the geographical spread.

Damn it, it will make the map look pretty!

Thanks, awfully.

http://caddyman.livejournal.com/

Experiment

I have decided that one of my projects for 2007 has to be to get mingmerciless and fencingsculptor together in one room under controlled conditions and measure precisely how close together they can be positioned before reality begins to warp and creation as we know it melts down.

Experiment

I have decided that one of my projects for 2007 has to be to get mingmerciless and fencingsculptor together in one room under controlled conditions and measure precisely how close together they can be positioned before reality begins to warp and creation as we know it melts down.