Useful notes

Citric acid powder aids bread

If a job's worth doing, it's better to do it badly than not at all.

Warm salt water kills infections: gargle, bathe, dab.

You can sprout things in a cafetiere.

Other people don't remember your embarrassing moments - you don't remember theirs

The future can't get at you

The future can't get at you.


MAN - a Passerby



To see:
Cragside House, Armstrongs, early hydroelectrics
Thornbury Abbey, North Lincs
Bowes House

Restaurants:
(v) Orchard, Sicilian Ave, Holborn
Food for Thought, Neal St, Covent Garden

Things I like to see

Goods trains
Goldfinches
Thespian howling children
Very tall trees
Barmaids and waitresses in black, with dyed red hair
Greyhounds
Clear rivers, streams and seas
Five-sailed windmills

Small post mills

Canal locks
Tower cranes
Coal fires

Hens in the distance

"The Sheepdog" - U.A. Fanthorpe

After the very bright light, 

And the talking bird, 
And the singing, 
And the sky filled up wi' wings, 
And then the silence, 

Our lads sez 
We'd better go, then. 
Stay, Shep. Good dog, stay. 
So I stayed wi' t' sheep. 

After they'd cum back 
It sounded grand, what they'd seen. 
Camels and kings, and such, 
Wi' presents - human sort, 
Not the kind you eat - 
And a baby. Presents wes for him 
Our lads took him a lamb. 

I had to stay behind wi' t' sheep. 
Pity they didn't tek me along too. 
I'm good wi' lambs, 
And the baby might have liked a dog 
After all that myrrh and such.

Concrete appeals to cats

Ian has finished laying new concrete in the back yard. Charlie mentioned next door's cat. Ian said cats are attracted to wet concrete. They walk on, stop - you think they'll reverse, but they always carry on. Once it was raining at the end of the day and he covered a conservatory-footing he'd just laid with plastic sheeting. In the morning they took the sheeting off and two cats had been across, under the sheeting, and stopped to have a fight in the middle.