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I started writing my first blog ten years ago. I didn't really know what I was doing or expect anyone to read it, but my mum had just died of cancer, and I found writing helped me begin to deal with this devastating loss. As the blog was called "CrouchEnding" after the London suburb we lived in, it seemed necessary to end it when we moved to York a few years later. After we had our daughter, I was then challenged to write a new blog as part of 40 (small) personal challenges I undertook in the year I turned 40. And the blogging was the challenge I enjoyed the most. So when the 40 challenges were completed and my young daughter finally got her 15 hours of nursery funding, I looked for something else to write about. Telly and Travels is it. Something I do too much of combined with something I would like to do more of.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Subtitles of the Week

“And he put a trout up me. And waggled it round. I could feel its eyes.”
(Linda, Nighty Night Series 2)

“Is there currently a tool that provides centralised control for all Windows XP software firewalls that exist as part of the workstation OS on a network?”
(A very obviously fake viewer question sent into Mike Nash, the world's most staggeringly awful autocue reader and presenter of the Microsoft Security 360 November webcast)

“But they’re naked.”
“Naturally. It’s much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on.”
“What religion can they possibly be learning, jumping over bonfires?”
(Howie and Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man)

“Suppose they are running secret drug trials?”
“What, and turning them into killer nuns?”
(Murphy and Carter, Murphy’s Law)

“A panic in the colony could transform this year’s offspring into a giant omelette.”
(Narrator, Penguin Baywatch)

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