Doodle Time

Madame Poire

2008-05-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

Bulls and Bears

2008-04-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Life sentence

2008-04-26T12:26:00.001-07:00

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence!
King Vidor

Uncommon cook

2008-04-26T12:00:00.000-07:00

"But why should you want to shield him?" cried Egbert; "the man is a common murderer!"
"A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook."
Saki / The Blind Spot (Beasts and Super-Beasts)

I like Saki's short stories.

How to wear your learning

2008-04-25T06:07:00.001-07:00

Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield

But, I want to show off my minuscule knowledge.

Benefits of lying

2008-04-25T03:51:00.001-07:00

Cobweb

2008-04-23T02:13:00.000-07:00

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift

Fussy Frog

2008-04-21T03:54:00.001-07:00

Tea lover's ideal wife

2008-04-20T03:53:00.001-07:00

You are my cup of tea

2008-04-20T03:40:00.001-07:00

The Japanese equivalent of a "henpecked husband" is a "husband who is put under a wife's bottom".

Leisure

2008-04-18T13:37:00.001-07:00

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies"Leisure"

If you want the rainbow

2008-04-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

According to the BBC website, London's weather on Saturday,rain; Sunday,rain; and Monday...rain. Endure!

Tomorrow's weather

2008-04-18T13:13:00.000-07:00

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.
Berthold Auerbach

Flattery

2008-04-16T14:38:00.000-07:00

I suppose flattery hurts no one, that is, if he doesn’t inhale.
Adlai Stevenson

Just puff lightly if it is flattery or drugs.

Dr. Williams

2008-04-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

I like the face of Archbishop of Canterbury; his woolly eyebrows and all. His is the face of an English eccentric.

A soggy little island

2008-04-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

A soggy little island huffing and puffing to keep up with Western Europe.
(Of England)
John Updike

Snow in April? Is global warming by-passing Britain?

Opposite of talking

2008-04-08T13:30:00.000-07:00

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz

Baby slender loris's bath time

2008-03-07T01:17:00.000-08:00

The slender loris is a huge-eyed nocturnal primate in the rainforests of Southern India and Sri Lanka. Due to deforestation, the number of them is declining.

Tony the Cheshire Cat

2008-03-04T01:41:00.000-08:00

...and this time, it (the Cheshire Cat) vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"

Jerboa

2008-02-29T04:05:00.000-08:00

This long-eared and big-footed cute animal, jerboa , is apparently an endangered species. What a great character with a stripy tufty tail!

Filmed for the first time in the Gobi desert last year, not much is known about these creatures.
It is sad that so many weird and wonderful creatures are disappearing without us even knowing of their existence.

Charm

2008-02-29T03:19:00.000-08:00

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus / The Fall

Life is not fair...

Bore

2008-02-28T01:58:00.000-08:00

A bore is a man who, when you ask how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

You asked the question, he answered it. What is the problem?

Long Letter

2008-02-21T03:49:00.001-08:00

I have made this (letter) longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

The reader is the one who has to suffer when they are asked to read something unnecessarily long as the writer cannot be bothered to spend time to edit it.

Between France and England

2008-02-21T02:38:00.000-08:00

The best thing I know between France and England is ---the sea.
Douglas Jerrold

London is supposed to be the 7th French city with so many young French people, and the Brits are buying houses all over France. So, the relationship is not that bad, surely?

Diary

2008-02-20T02:49:00.000-08:00

I always say, keep a diary and some day, it’ll keep you.
Mae West

When I skimmed through my old diary and encountered an entry saying, “ I went to the local Tesco’s and bought a jar of honey from Chile”, I decided never to keep a diary again.

Artistic temperament

2008-02-20T02:41:00.000-08:00

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
G. K. Chesterton

If the majority of artists are rude, mad and drunk and leading an unhealthy life, isn’t it more iconoclastic to be an artist who is good‑natured, health-conscious and boring?

Opera is...

2008-02-17T03:50:00.001-08:00

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

Humpty Dumpty

2008-02-15T02:39:00.001-08:00

I had an interest in death from an early age. It fascinated me. When I heard “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall”, I thought, “Did he fall or was he pushed?”
P. D. James

How did he climb up on the wall in the first place? That is what bothers me more.

Woman's Heart

2008-02-14T01:56:00.000-08:00

When once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her body.
John Vanbrugh

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wife's Birthday

2008-02-14T01:39:00.000-08:00

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
E. Joseph Cossman

After I had received two bunches of flowers with a sticker saying, “two for the price of one” from my husband on my birthday, I stopped bothering to remind him of my birthday.

When a woman isn't beautiful...

2008-02-13T08:09:00.000-08:00

When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, “You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.”
Anton Chekhov / Uncle Vanya

Internet

2008-02-13T07:35:00.000-08:00

The Internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.
Noam Chomsky

My mobile phone is the size of a brick. Nowadays, most people in the developing countries seem to be using sleeker mobiles than mine. But… I am on the internet!