A few weeks ago Sharon’s cousin and his girlfiend----um womanfriend ----- er --- ladyfriend , visited us. As we were showing them the sights they took quite a few photos . One of these turnd out to be the best shot of the two of us in a long time. I just know this is because of our new lightweight selves! You have to go back many years to find us as trim as we are now. We have worked at this for a year and a half now. Every morning starts on the scale. Just a daily remider not to let things slip. Although not so strict now we still try not to eat too much of the wrong foods. It has all been worth it and this photo is the proof!

Earl Grey & Darjeeling .end of an era

To Earl Grey and Darjeeling and the end of an era

DARJEELING
1989-2007 GONE TO RUN WITH THE KITTIES IN HEAVEN

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

for anne chuck jones award winning cartoon

from me to kg

to kg

Whoops-----my brain just drifted off to Portmeirion again! Review from Amazon.co.uk Synopsis "The Times" called Portmeirion 'the last folly of the Western World' while the "Guardian" saw it as 'a giant gnomes' village'. For eccentric architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the man who designed and built the resort, it was 'propaganda for good manners,' a statement of how planned development could enhance rather than destroy its environment. And for the quarter of a million visitors a year who make the trip to this Italianate village in North-West Wales, it's quite simply one of the most magical places on Earth. It was here Noel Coward wrote his comedy "Blithe Spirit", Patrick McGoohan filmed the legendary 1960s TV series "The Prisoner" and George Harrison celebrated his 50th birthday. It's the kind of place where Larry Adler gave informal concerts to other guests and hotel staff, Ingrid Bergman could be found talking movies with Bertrand Russell, and where royalty - from Edward VIII to King Zog of Albania - would join the general public in seeking escape from the modern world. Here too was born the world-famous Portmeirion Pottery, founded by Clough's daughter, Susan William-Ellis, and still one of Britain's leading ceramics companies nearly a half-century on. The book "Portmeirion" is published to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the opening of the resort in 1926. Lavishly illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs, plans and drawings, it is the first book to cover the whole story of the village, the extensive gardens both at Portmeirion and Plas Brondanw, the Williams-Ellis family home, Portmeirion Pottery as well as Clough himself.

Laurel and Hardy - Blotto

One of the funniest comedy bits ever!

Pepper Adams in the UK

my man!