An article from Pearsons 1901 about how to protect yourself on a cycle. From highwaymen.

On Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 3:05 PM, Susie Burgess wrote:

> What I would like to know is the meaning re the duck?!!

Actually I've hijacked a moment in time from James's life with that. I was only watching :)

When we lived in Paparimu, we got some young goslings, and James may have chased them around the yard.

Then they grew up into geese. And they remembered.

the boys like to whirl each other on the rounding chair

sometimes they talk me into helping too

Intervention! HadTried to stop a team of colleagues emailing "a few" people about how cool it was that San Suu Kyi was "not phased" about her 15 years in jail.

Phased:

Not fazed:

(That creepy green guy in the background is in for a surprise, though.)

a bus, two cars and a bicycle meet at an intersection.

via @pipes

The story is told of a rabbi whose disciples were debating the question of when precisely “daylight” commenced.

One proposed:

“It is when one can see the difference between a sheep and a goat at a distance.”

Another suggested:

“It is when you can see the difference between a fig tree and an olive tree at a distance.”

And so it went on. When they eventually asked the rabbi for his view, he said:

Plot summary of “This is Not My Life”, future drama on TV1.

My major concern about living in such a future is that you cannot slam an automatic door.

Rowan sent his first email from Dad's phone today -

For posterity:

To: lnh@Rm

HA sowo
VI

-gkkjnn

Cpt&,

Thomas and Hunter invented an old game ...

When I was a little lad ... there was a cartoon ad on the telly, the Milk Rap. It had all the different types of milk bottles breaking / bopping and rapping about their flavours. My favourite was the cream bottle who did a mean backspin. 

Now I'm having trouble finding any evidence that the ad ever existed! No Youtube clips. No-one I've asked remembers it. I can't find it in our cultural archives.