Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hobbit

There is a level of one-upmanship in pools. First of all there is the issue of temperature. Your pool must be warmer than anyone else's. But to win this game you end up with something that's hot enough to boil a lobster.

Then there's music. Moby must be piped into underwater speakers for reasons that I have yet to understand completely.

Let's not forget depth. A friend of mine recently installed a pool at his home on Hayling Island only to discover that it's impossible, when you're so close to the sea, to dig down more than 4 feet. He has ended up with a pool that has two shallow ends, connected in the middle with a shallow bit. You don't swim in it so much as stroll around looking like Jesus.



- loosely, TWATC, Clarkson

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Education

And so it begins, in all its incoherence, the morbid, fascinating spectacle that is the life and nature of man.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

I was horrified by the exchange between the pilots who hadn't heard which runway they were supposed to land on. "Oh just follow the bloke in front," said the captain to his young apprentice in the right-hand seat. Then we hit a flock of birds.

"Got 'em," said the captain.


- IKYGS, Clarkson