New Stock follows this Newsletter,however this one includes at least one image you will find disturbing!
One of the reasons for the tardiness was the death of my Aunt Kathleen aged 96 years and 364 days, peacefully in her sleep. If you would be kind enough to read the newsletters posted just before this one, both she and I would be very happy and you will get a sense from whence the madness stems!
I am sending this out on the biggest party night of the year, with the exception of New Year, so that you will all have something to stare at bleary-eyed during tomorrow’s hangover. Remember joyfully that I don’t suffer from them!
To those of you sipping on Dom Perignon and Krug, don’t overdo it, save a bottle for me.
Basket Case
Had to get that photo out of the way; Paul and Ines, I am speechless, but that’s because I have a brownie in my mouth.
Well I have had to start again, I somehow managed to delete, even in this auto saved world, the draft of the newsletter.
It was going to be the greatest one yet, the funniest, the one most likely to reduce you to tears of joy and tears of sadness. My “Cinquanta sfumature di Grigio”, più piselli Norma.
But sadly the dog ate my homework, the collection was stolen from the warehouse the night before it was to be shown, the cheque is in the post!
I could of course have copied one from before and would you have known the difference? Probably not. So this one is BARKING!
The newsletter is now read in 110 countries, and I am stalked on several social media sites in several more, you know who you are, and so do I.
No it wasn’t the little green spiders in Coogan’s Bluff, wasn’t Tisha Sterling gorgeous, and mental!
I hadn’t shared anything with Neil or Eugene, it all started much earlier.
Any excuse for a photo!
Tisha Sterling
For those who don’t believe that I am mad, here is my Santa outfit. Now you could have had this as a Christmas card, now where did I hide that Werther’s Original.
Santa Lycra
That’s my kind of Christmas Onesie, my David Gandy look.
Like comparing me to David Gandy, life often looks as though it’s going to offer diamonds and ends up giving you bricks. This happened recently happened when I hired a car. The guys at Avis excitedly told me they’d upgraded my car to a BMW 4 series with an M specification.
Pah! M spec meant leather interior and heated seats. If I wanted heated seats, I’d wriggle around a little. The engine was a 2 litre diesel and automatic gearbox had four settings Eco (very kind to bunnies), Comfort (Werther’s Original), Sport (Tear the skin off a rice pudding, just), and Sport with all the driving aids turned off (Tear the skin off a rice pudding, but just don’t try going round a corner at anything over the speed limit), as if I would! All show, and no go.
Ahhh, I’ve just remembered what I’d started writing in the other Newsletter that I lost.
Starlings, they don’t like poppadums!
I tried to find a photo of the two together, failed miserably therefore it must be true.
Thank you Reggie Perrin, I’d forgotten. Not only is the madness hereditary, it has been absorbed by the process of osmosis using society’s semi-permeable membrane; television, and a diet of Monty Python and Reginald Perrin.
I also predict; come the first warming rays of sun in springtime we will see the demise of the beard. The reason, well not only do starlings not like poppadums; they won’t nest in beards, mainly because the guys put up one heck of fight when the starlings start their murmation.
And all because I liked this photo.
Murmation
Later in the month I will publish a list of trends for next year, some ups, some downs and a few things that are not likely to change.
Hopefully we will sense and get rid of things such as Black Friday, replace it with either Dodgeball,or Rollerball, both of which will be much safer.
In the not too distant future Black Fridays will no longer exist, but there will be Rollerball.
The footage was fascinating, disturbing and funny all at the same time. We of course do not stoop so low as to offer a Black Friday event, our wine tastings offer a similar experience with alcohol involved.
A big thank you to all who attended, the next one will take place in January, when you are all supposed to be dry.
Wolf who is a regular is big into 3D printing has produced a Christmas Quiz which will be mailed out with the Christmas Newsletter. Don’t worry he does get out a little and is headed to LA and NYC for the festivities.
Now a little plug.
I have a friend and it is not Wolf, who is starting to produce 3D printed chess pieces from his own CAD files.
Here are some examples, maintaining the bird theme.
Rook and Pawns
