Strange things on my mind....

So, last night i was wondering about chips.. not whether or not to get some, but rather what it is in the human psyche that makes one person suddenly think "I know.. I'll slice up a potato and deep fry it in oil, just to see what happens..." once there were no chips... once there was no bread... once there was no fire... now some of these things we can explain by happenstance and serendipity.. a lightning strike sets the forest on fire, people notice that its warm, and someone takes a bit home as a souvenir.... and roast meat... some lucky guy or girl finds the smel of burnt animal strangely attractive, and takes a bite....pretty soon they're doing it deliberately.. but what about bread or beer? What sort of accident ends up with a mix of grain, water, yeast and sugar all coming together and fermenting or baking... that seems like deliberate experimentation to me... but why? What would make someone look at a small, undistinguished fungus and think, "I wonder if that will make my floury paste stuff more interesting... whoops, I've dropped it into that strange rockbox thing that dom left by the fire..." Most religions are so worried about the whole thing that they bring in divine intervention, Prometheus and Loki and Saturn, giving us agriculture, fire and beer... but not necessarily in that order.... and of course, being gods (and a ttan!) there's no need to ask where they got it all from... to me, its interesting, but ultimately unimportant.. all it really illustrates is that we are now so used to thinking and so ill supplied with things to think about that we'll think about all sorts of rubbish... unless of course you are James Dyson.... but i digress... in a world full of serious problems to think of, why do we sit and think of rubbish... is it because we don't really care? Or is it that we just don't enjoy it? Or possibly the fault lies with the fact that we are constantly having a lot of our thinking done for us by that evil entity the media and its illegitimate child the government... and strangely enough I'm having trouble... not only has this strange machine just sent me to a rail timetable without my express wish (pun intended...) but it as also wiped out half of the post, and I am now trying to replicate it from memory.. despite having been told that it has been saved.... strange.... basically, I was trying to get across that we are, when it gets down to it thinking engines, and one day we will all stop thinking about the unimportant things in life, like gilette razors and that Sex and the City film (about which more at a later date...) and begin to concentrate on something important.. and then we will be doomed... so until the thought begins to contemplate the notion of crossing our minds, Wisebeard salutes you!!!!!

snow joke....

Well, just back from easter Camp.. arrived on Friday evening after work, to a camp already set up and under way... and cold.... but fun... hiked up to Bardon Hill (Leicestershire's highest point), encouraged the Scouts to build a snowman in the image of Spoon; its possible that the way things are going, it may be the last snowman they get to build... On saturday, I went into Melton Mowbray to pick up a shed for a very good friend of mine, who has agreed to possibly come on holiday with me this October.. which is nice... and carrying a shed on the roof rack of a 25 year old estate car in high winds and snow is no jioke, I can tell you.. back into camp on the saturday evening, in time for stew, and then sleep in the Alpine hut... would have been warmer in a tent! On sunday came a visit from my good friend Rob, home from the RAF, and the hike to Bardon... and today it was home.... to bed, roast roots and Brains Faggots.... tomorrow it will be time to put up the aforementioned shed.. weeks off are always so busy.... but there we are....also i've been told that i'm going out next satyrday... two friends of mine (yes.. i have friends!!!!) are insisting i go to burton on trent, the home of beer, and have a chinese meal... then go bowling (if the alley hasn't closed down!!) before going off to a bar somewhere.... I dread to think what's going to happen... but I shall put aside the fact that when I was 18 or so such a night would hold little attraction, and go for it with a positive attitude... but there we go.. my son is off to blackpool with his mum at the end of the weeek, so that gives me four days of an empty house.. but i'll find something to do.. model railway beckons... but i digress.. managed to put in ome work on my entries for bbc wildlife poetry comp and a couple of others.. based on an experience at work.. so until we find a rhyme for rythm, wisebeard salutes you!!!!!!!!!!