Old Sneezes

Archive for April, 2008

222 Posts

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

That’s enough isn’t it? I can stop now?

A Lesson in Charity

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

In 2002, an Irish property developer founded the Niall Mellon Township Trust with the aim of providing the poor of South Africa’s townships with housing. You can read more about it on the website.
The way it works is unlike most charities. Rather than providing money for housing, the trust actually provides the housing itself. Each [...]

How the dog got its name

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. — Groucho Marx (no relation to Karl)
This is Toby (pretending to ignore the late cat, who in turn, is pretending to ignore him), aka The Tobster, You, Com’ere, The Hound, Black & White Thing and Jayzez [...]

The area known locally as …

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

How often have you heard the expression the area known locally as on news reports?
Every stretch on my road between the village and home has a name. Sadly, I’m one of the few to remember them. Last of it’s kind not in captivity – that’s me.
The Mill Bridge – No mill has been there in [...]

Colouring in – an epic tale in 3½ parts

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

1. Introducton
Painting is my 23rd love. For brief period after I gave up competitive long-distance-spitting it was my 22nd. Then blogging happened and painting fell back to 23rd again. Still, 23rd is not bad when you consider my 24th love is eating Irish stew and 25th making it.
Now before you go getting all excited, expecting [...]

The week that was

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last week was one of those weeks where seven days weren’t enough to get through all that had to be done. One of those weeks when I’m make a plan of action for the day at 5, and by 7 it would be all changed. I hate that. I hate that as much as I [...]

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