The Medusa Fora

My middle child has come back alive & well from 4 weeks in Ireland (attending music camps in Sligo & Limerick, and running around Dublin like a loon). And she brought me a bottle of Pogues whiskey! This was lovely of her. I mean, she bought it with my credit card, but she smuggled it through Canadian Customs (she's still slightly under our legal drinking age).

Frances wrote:Happy PRIDE Dublin, London, NYC and San Francisco!

And today, she attending the Pride Parade here in Vancouver, Canada, along with both the mayor of our city and the Prime Minister of out country!

Not me, i'm working, and not really one for the big crowds. Went & cheered on the dyke march yesterday (which my daughter slept through, jet lagged as she was...)

A few years ago i posted on this thread about the return of the salmon run to some of our urban waterways here
http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10131&p=207566&hilit=still+creek+burnaby#p207566

So i thought i should share this too, because ADORABLE, and because it shows how rebuilding an ecosystem spreads across species:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bobcat-goes-fishing-in-burnaby-1.3837812

Low D wrote:A few years ago i posted on this thread about the return of the salmon run to some of our urban waterways here
http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10131&p=207566&hilit=still+creek+burnaby#p207566

So i thought i should share this too, because ADORABLE, and because it shows how rebuilding an ecosystem spreads across species:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bobcat-goes-fishing-in-burnaby-1.3837812

These fora need a like button. I like all of that, but unfortunately I don't have anything interesting to add.

Leslie Jacques, who turns 100 this Rememberence Day, survived the Second World War and shares his secret for a long and happy life.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3841119

Happy New Year Everyone.

Happy New Year to everyone on the raft - hope the next Pogues gig won't be too far away.... (still dreaming....)

I literally just answered the door to cute young christian proselytizers, while wearing my Black Sabbath shirt.

You can't plan these things, thank goodness I overcame the desire to put on a clean shirt this morning. Praise Ozzy!

Harvey Weinstein in police custody. Nice to see!!

And the Irish have voted overwhelmingly to repeal the 8th amendment!

Well done, people of Ireland.

I have successfully installed a ceiling fan in our living room. This involved crawling in crazy heat through 60 years of cobwebs in the attic, defeating the forsaken ones that live there *, installing a fan box into the ceiling, tapping into an existing circuit, running a line to the box and down the wall to a fan control i installed there. All this without falling through the ceiling to boot! And now we can actually BE in the living room when the summer sun heats it up.

* defeating the forsaken ones that live there - this is what my daughter figures must have been going on with all the swearing & banging around up there while i was "working"

It seems as though I'm going to be in lovely Vancouver the week of June 25. Anyone up for some mid-week beers?

I'm in (depending on schedule)! If you're lucky, you can experience my ceiling fan. I over-bought, so on full it's like a helicopter is landing in the living room. Nice. Will PM you my details.

DzM was telling me about this last night... Setup for the mainstage of a music festival in Canada's capital of Ottawa was delayed several days while a killdeer nest was moved, metre by metre (or 3.28084 feet by 3.28084 feet) so as not to disrupt it's reproductive process, with an incubator standing by just in case.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ki ... -1.4724128

My daughter sent me (on facebook) a load of pics from the eighties..some great memories in those pics..when I was young and could shake off a hangover saturday morning, go to work till lunch-time and then go play football..and then go out again..and then go play football sunday morning...as the old pink floyd song says..the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.