The Cat Organ (kitsch)

From my sister, an intrepid explorer of the farthest dimensions of kitsch.

My emotions when I played this video? Introspection was limited as Clare and myself were rolling around on the sofa, tears of laughter in our eyes.

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This chilly, frosty morning - a visitor

Slow news day

It's a wet Sunday - what can I tell you? The gym was pretty deserted this morning but, fuelled by massive over-indulgence in trifle last night, I did pretty well, especially on the resistance machines.

Later I started Lecture 2 on General Relativity by acclaimed Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind. Once of the best teachers in the world talking about one of the most tedious subjects (covariant and contravariant tensors, and transformations of the metric tensor): I literally fell asleep after 25 minutes.

And then this video. The setting is Marissal Road, Henbury, Bristol. Alex and Adrian, together with my sister Elaine, are visiting my mother (this was some years ago). I am my usual bumptious, overbearing self with a camera; my mother (with her robot cat, Cindy) is inveigled into the role of camera-person.

Despite everything, it's quite amusing.

Xmas presents 2013

This creature from my mother - now put to good work.

The badger guards the door