Author: VickyTH

athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *

Zombie blogger

I had a post entitled “MIA” written about Heather and how the blogging world hasn’t heard from her in almost a month. It was complete with an adaptation of “Disobedience” (you remember, “James, James, Morrison, Morrison, Weatherby George Dupree, took great care of his mother…” by A.A. Milne) using Heather’s name and everything. It took…

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Because I love laughing at lawyers…..

Law firms are prone to merging and rearranging themselves into strings of surnames that often rival the names of the authors of scientific journal articles in length. Every so often, firms such as “Chaulker, Green and Rowe” transmogrify into “McInnes Cooper” or “Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales” will save on printing costs by dropping the last…

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Abandonment and Joy (updated)

I remember Mom playing a recording of Classical Gas when we were kids, probably either the Mason Williams and/or the Mannheim Steamroller versions. We had a lot of Mannheim Steamroller around at one point and I’ve never lost the taste for it (probably explains a few things, eh?). I’ve always loved this song for its…

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My Estonian is a bit rusty…

So is my German, for that matter. (As an aside, I actually do read and speak some German, the former more than the latter. French, too, quite fluently, when in practice. I’ve studied varying amounts of Latin, Hebrew, Russian as well as a smidgen of Greek, so I can generally pick out most Romance languages…

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