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Category Archives: amusements
World Juggling Day
Saturday 15 June is World Juggling Day which is set up International Jugglers Association to help spread the fun of juggling and to bring jugglers around the world together.
Juggling is fun — well so they tell me, I was never any good at it. And it is an ancient art: there are images on a tomb in Egypt show people juggling, and there are references to it in writings from China, Ireland and Rome. Juggling was also popular during Renaissance times, when jugglers would entertain the royal court.
As usual there’s lots more information over at www.juggle.org/wjd.
Something for the Weekend
This week I thought we’d have something slightly different: a selection of four Osbert Lancaster cartoons from 50+ years ago — all of them before I left primary school. What I love about Lancaster’s pocket cartoons is that some many of them are just as relevant today as when they were first drawn.
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Plus ça change!
Something for the Weekend …
Here’s the usual little something to lighten up the end of the week.
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Auction Oddities
Once more unto the auction, dear brethren. We bring you some oddities from the catalogue of our local saleroom’s upcoming auction. As so often it is the odd juxtapositions and typos which add to the overall effect.
Lot 004 £30-50
A large
Yes, that really is all it says!
An 1896 South African half pond, [sic] estimated weight 4.3grm.
Lot 180 £15-25
A small
I’m glad the estimate is lower than for lot 004!
2 well presented postcard albums, a collection of Smiths potato crisps dinner and dance menus dating from the 1920′s to 1960′s. WWI Sweatheart cards, WWII letters and 2 telegrams.
A trilby hat by G A Dunn and Co, Orange hanging lightshade, two framed paintings by Peter Hodson, blue and white lidded tureen, collection of Crest ware, Golden Shred, Cherry Blossom moot [sic] polish and Bisto advertising plaques, table lamp, glassware …
Large meat platters incl one with drainage and a well, Shaving cup, a Fosters studio glugger in the form of a fish, two sailor dolls, commemorative china, Aynsley cups and saucers with a milk jug, boxed View Master, two bagatelle boards, gas mask …
A collection of various small wooden birds labelled and in bags hanging on a wooden stand; wooden duck, blue jay, horned owl, Canadian warbler and many more, also a collection of wooden birds, letter openers
A pair of brass five [sic] dogs, a brass lamp in the form of a candlestick, three weavers shuttles, another table lamp, brown leather Slazenger bag containing boules …
An old 3 and half Octave in an Oak case
A pair of iron garden urns of traditional 10th c.design
Something for the Weekend
In honour of all my teacher friends …
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Towel Day
Saturday 25 May is Towel Day.
What, I hear you exclaim, is Towel Day? Yes, that’s right it is the day on which we are encouraged to carry a towel in tribute to the late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. On 25 May 2001, two weeks after Douglas Adam’s untimely death, his fans carried a towel in his honour. And they have done so every year since.
If you’ve already read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy you’ll know the importance of your towel. If not, the book will explain why a towel is the most important item a space-travelling hitch-hiker (indeed probably any of us — just ask Linus!) can have.
Your towel is extremely practical: you can use it to keep warm, to lie on, to sleep on and to use as a mini-raft as you sail down the River Moth! Of course your towel is also a trusty companion and thus extremely important for a host of psychological reasons.
Towel Day isn’t just a day for doing the obvious: carrying a towel. There are also lots of events, all listed over on the Towel Day website at http://towelday.org/.
Something for the Weekend
A slightly risqué one (no change there then!) this week …
Something for the Weekend
Matt’s pocket cartoon on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph is another excellent one …
C(r)ock o'China
That was the headline in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph.
It seems that China’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, is erecting a brand new HQ building. And as you’ll see from the photo even the least imaginative couldn’t fail to recognise the resemblance to a massive hard prick.
[Cue: Frankie Howerd]
It appears that this is all too much for the Chinese censors who have been working overtime to try to stop people sniggering to the rest of the world and viewing pictures online. I would really have thought that China should be proud of its erection!