It's a long way...

...by UK standards, just a short hop and a skip in the US, but tomorrow I have to do a 150-mile round trip, broken by a party (YAY) for my second cousin's 20th wedding anniversary.

See you Sunday.

Tough Choice

A genie grants you just one wish. You have to choose between being able to watch Vincent D'Onofrio films and TV shows every waking hour for the rest of your life - and spending one hour in bed with him making passionate love and never laying eyes on his fair form ever again.

Which would you choose?












































































































































Sadly, some prude at Photobucket thinks some of my Hotel Paradise pictures have violated their code and has deleted them.

Pigeon Post

Dear little (?) one-eyed Beano doesn't always come in on these sultry nights. This morning I opened the door into the conservatory (sunroom) and found him sitting there in all his innocence. The sliding door into the garden is broken and doesn't close properly, but the gap is only an inch or two wide. There is a catflap in from the garden and another into the house.

On the handle of the window, six feet off the ground, was perched a nervous-looking pigeon. It was too big to have come in through the gap, but surely it couldn't have come in through the catflap?

I ushered Beano into the house and shut the door, then opened the outer broken one and encouraged the pigeon out with a broom. When I went outside to inspect the area, I found a large selection of pigeon feathers scattered all around. Beano had caught the pigeon and brought it in through a catflap which is not much bigger than his sturdy old self.

Who said you need binocular vision to be a predator?

Vincent D'Onofrio, Alpha Male

He has that something women recognise and flock to, something that only dominant males have. The first clue is his immense size, which attracts from afar. Add stunning good looks, a physique that melts the soul whichever angle it's viewed from, tenderness, a caring nature, immense intelligence and obvious sexual prowess, and what self-respecting female could resist?