That’s my Pollock (no, not the fish, silly). Or, rather, that’s one of them. I think I spent two hours on this website trying to imitate something like this, but gave up and settled for the one above. Try it, it’s addictive.
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Along the Normandy landing beaches are many memorials commemorating D-Day in 1944. In case you’re unfamiliar with the whole scenario, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Operation Overlord, as the Battle of Normandy was codenamed.
The image above is of photos attached to walls next to one of the large monuments along the coast. I like the way they put them up without any sort of protection, apparently years ago, and they are still there. Goes to show that there are some things immune to vandalism.
Or they just put up new ones every year and wipe them with wet tea bags to make them look old.
I’m getting more unimaginative by the second. Hence the headline.
We spent quite some time driving along the coast of lower Normandy. We stopped at a few places to have a cup of awful French coffee* or just amble along the sandy beaches (diligent readers may by now have noticed the change from “stony” to “sandy” – that’s the basic difference between upper and lower Normandy right there).
The above picture was taken somewhere along Juno Beach.
*I need to say a word about French coffee. The stuff they give you when ordering, say, a Cafe Creme, is more or less undrinkable. I’ve read some time ago, that in France, the robusta bean is dominant, and since robusta is really quite bitter, that would explain the taste. But why oh why has nobody ever complained about the shitty, shitty taste? Is it really so difficult to get some bean that doesn’t remind people of tar pits when having a sip? I don’t get it.
How come it’s always the birthday entries that make me want to write my wittiest entries? Maybe because I feel that yet another year has gone by without me being voted Funniest Man Of The Year? Or because I still haven’t been chosen to host the Oscars?
Whatever it is, please make it stop. I don’t want to be witty on my birthday. I just want to grow old with dignity.
PS: Count the holes. Yes, exactly 26 candles. How’s that for a birthday cake?
The advantages of a big desk: more space to organize stuff.
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