Same date. Different years.
All photographs ©John Davies
Tuesday February 8th 2000
This morning it is dark, with a dirty grey sky above bleak skeleton trees, raining, cold, miserable, and yes, I’m assailed by doubt again.
I’ve been putting together a quote for AA to produce an interactive version of the training project. I want to do it well but don’t feel I have – my old problem of partial vision seems to bedevill me, not being focussed enough on what he needs – although it’s all speculative – no payment. I’m blaming myself for not being able to write out from scratch a clean definition of an interactive learning package.
It’s 8.15, the day is a dark grey green of sodden matted trees, droplets of rain like tiny lights on each twig tip, scattered through the lilac, buddleia and damson like little pearls or jewels.
Quite a number of things have happened over the weekend.
I had a very bad migraine on Saturday morning possibly because I got cold outside cleaning out the rabbit hutch and pruning the apple trees. It was the second one I’d had in two days – so I’ve started taking propanolol again.
It was a very bright, beautiful, fresh morning.
I met Malcolm D outside Sainsbury’s. He had followed me out as I struggled with the industrial strength multiple carrier shopping trolley we now use. He expressed suprise that I was not in gaol yet…
Memorable quotations harvested on 8.2.200
From the film The Bridge on the River Kwai
COMMANDANT
I hate the British!.
You are defeated, yet you have no shame.
You are stubborn, yet you have no pride.
You endure, yet, you have no courage.
I hate the British!
From the film Dirty Harry
The Mayor and Chief and Harry discuss Scorpio.. The Mayor tells Harry he
doesn’t want any trouble like last year. ‘That’s not my policy’..
Harry
When an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot
the bastard. That’s my policy..
Mayor
Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife
and a hard on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross...
Harry exits.
From the film Body Heat
You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
From the film The Lord of the Rings
DWARF KING
Nobody tosses a dwarf!
From the film Dr Strangeglove
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here - this is the war room.
From the film They Drive By Night
Guy - If you touch me, I’ll call an ambulance!
Bogart - If I touch you, you’ll call an ambulance.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae West
