Catastrophe!
Here at GFG HQ we are in turmoil. Our computer crashed yesterday and, to cut a long story short, some hands were lost and we have a new operating system to get used to. Worst of everything, I have lost my entire archive of emails and e-addresses. So if you’ve contacted me recently, and haven’t […]
Tidying up our dead
Very nice piece in the Washington Post by Tracy Grant: Closets are odd creatures … In starter homes, newlywed husbands tease their brides that all their clothes will never fit in that closet. When the homebuyers are upscale, the closets can boast more square footage than some Manhattan apartments. But talk to any adult child […]
Resurrection!
Thanks to the supernatural genius of Ian ‘Harry’ Harris (no, he’s not a gangster, he’s a web wizard) at Carron Media, this blog has, by dint of main force, gentle coaxing and the application of recondite algorithms, been migrated from Blogger, which is pulling the plug on it, to WordPress, which has pronounced itself humbled, […]
What about the workers?
Here’s a nice biz opp for someone in the UK: a jobs review site. Wossat? It’s a site where people leave anonymous reviews about the company they work for. Very useful for people thinking about working for that company. Over in the US they have a few of these sites. One of them is JobVent. […]
In life, in death…
Good to see that Malcolm McLaren will be going out in the anarchic style he did so much to popularise. We are all invited to observe a minute of mayhem at noon on Thursday. More funeral arrangements here.
A funeral is not a community event. Official
If you didn’t catch Rupert’s delightfully unbuttoned comment on yesterday’s post, have a look. The interesting thing about the death deniers is that they don’t just put their hands over their ears and count noisily to ten until you stop. Whether death is the Old Enemy or just a Disgusting Old Man, it certainly brings […]
Dead man ruling
Nice crazy story from the US, where the townspeople of Tracy City, TN, have just thrown out their mayor by electing a dead one instead. What an admirably creative protest vote. Read it here.
Rocky 3
Once the principal place of worship for Portlanders, who trekked here from earliest times from all parts of the island, St Andrew’s church was severely damaged by a landslip in 1675, but only finally abandoned in the mid-eighteenth century. In its ruined graveyard some of the headstones and monuments bear the skull-and-crossbones motif, a customary […]
Rocky 2
Here’s the Royal Naval cemetery on Portland. Is there a burial ground in the UK which commands better views? There are 65 First World War burials and 103 Second World War burials. Of these, 10 are unidentified, one is a Norwegian merchant navy seaman, and one a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. There […]
Rocky 1
This blog is on holiday in its seaside cottage on the Isle of Portland. This little island, just four miles long and two wide, is where some of the world’s best limestone has been quarried. Find out what it’s built here. Beauty comes at a price. The devastation of the island goes on (above). Here […]
