Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Sep 7th, 2008
Under the rubric of Digital Intimacy The New York Times has a fine article about “ambient awareness” — the phenomenon of knowing what other people are doing using things such as Facebook and Twitter. I enjoyed this You know that old cartoon? ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’? On the Internet today, everybody [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 29th, 2008
A hat tip to Jeremy for this amusing rumination on the meaning of the word down. Strictly speaking, the author doesn’t take Larson’s point of view on dog comprehension but his contention about dogs not asking questions is only technically correct. We’ve all known intelligent, telepathic, face-reading, emotional blackmailing artists of canine persuasion who didn’t [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 10th, 2008
Yesterday evening we went for a stroll across Regent’s Park to Primrose Hill (panorama) and back around the edge of the park. Everywhere the daffodils and snowdrops were up. It was a fine spring evening in what should have been winter. It’s become a truism that we now have only 3 seasons. En route we [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 27th, 2007
The cat summoned us in the night with a few distressed mews as he lay on the dining room floor. We turned on the light and stayed with him. The lady who hated cats when I met her shed a tear and stroked him as he died. Yes, he knew we were there I reassured [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2007
“We’ve had this dish a long time” I said to the lady known as Ma’am when I was known as Sir. I was helping to put leftover things away after after a film after dinner. Ma’am recalled who gave us this rather nice blue and white bowl. Francis and Angela, elderly neighbours of her parents. [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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