tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post4626891193787056262..comments2023-09-24T09:46:20.734+02:00Comments on Magic Lantern Show: Close CallOwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-10619109558475145182009-11-30T10:13:25.271+01:002009-11-30T10:13:25.271+01:00merci owen pour m'avoir racontée l'histoir...merci owen pour m'avoir racontée l'histoire :-)<br />bisous xxx:: Karine ::https://www.blogger.com/profile/14136116349598940204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-54078678872811136542009-11-29T04:24:50.242+01:002009-11-29T04:24:50.242+01:00Hi Gwen, well, whether they were meant to be remov...Hi Gwen, well, whether they were meant to be removed or not, they have been now, all GONE ! History ! And good Riddance ! Glad to hear John managed to hang on up there in the howling blizzard and not take a 30 foot plunge... could have been ugle, especially if he'd been snowed under an not found until Spring thaw... would have been reported as a missing person ? Happy endings are better...<br /><br />======<br /><br />TechnoB, yeah, I sure learned something, next time I'll wear a crash helmet... many thanks, we did have a nice Thanksgiving, but actually, it's not a holiday here, so I had to work... but we get plenty of other holidays, so that's not a problem...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Liz, given that I had discovered the crowbar's murderous intentions, I buried it deep in the hole, and covered it over... shouldn't see it again any time soon, unless it crawls back out of the ground some dark and stormy night to come pry a window open and get back into the house !<br />Arrrggghhhh... the return of the crowbar !<br />:-D<br /><br />======<br /><br />Peter, indeed, indeed, I was feeling mighty stupid that day... I do have serious bouts of stupidity at times, I don't know what brings them on... many thanks...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Hey Loulou ! That's great !!! So many thanks for seeing that and thinking of me ! Namasté... I left Yanidel a comment about the Paris Dog Cemetery, will see if he(?)she(?) gets in touch with me, in any case, I'm glad to know I'm not the only blogger who ever went there... Is Yanidel someone you know ? Or did you find this just be chance ? In any case, a hundred shining thank you's !<br /><br />Bye for now, and have a fine Sunday !<br /><br />======<br /><br />Dear FF, ahh, hope you were relieved then with the ending... I sure was... I guess it could have hit me on the way down as well... fortunately it missed me in both directions... dumb luck I guess...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Dear Marguerite, glad you got a bit of a laugh. I think in fact that crowbar must have had a voodoo spell cast on it long ago, and it was looking for an opportunity to do someone some serious bodily harm... I think I'll send it back to an iron foundry and have it melted down to make a ball for playing petanque with maybe...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Hi Robert, perhaps you are right, it wasn't my time, so maybe there is still something left for me to do here in this world... which is the best of all possible worlds, right... Happy Sunday to you...<br /><br />======<br /><br />LadyDi, indeed, indeed, plenty of shivers to go around in light of all the power tools and other big toys that guys like to mess around with... A very happy Holiday Weekend to you and all the family... !Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-34596704563560146802009-11-29T04:03:18.755+01:002009-11-29T04:03:18.755+01:00Hi Virginia, I Shall be more careful, I promise......Hi Virginia, I Shall be more careful, I promise... And I did finish the job finally, all the slabs of concrete came out, the hole was filled back in with dirt, and grass seeded, soon will look like nothing ever happened there but a quiet stretch of lawn...<br />:-)<br /><br />======<br /><br />Merci Dedene, well, I don't know how "grand" it is as art, but it's from the heart in any case...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Ah Jeff, vraiment, il faudrait que tu t'inscrives pour quelques cours d'anglais, non ? Comme ça, le soir avant de te coucher, tu pourrais te régaler en lisant Shakespeare dans l'original... ce serait chouette, non ? Bon, peut-être en 2010 ? Ce n'est pas si difficile... allez, si moi, l'étranger peut faire un peu d'effort pour lire le français, tu pourrais en faire autant, non ? Mais bon, si tu as capté qu'un pied de biche a failli me décapiter, c'est l'essentiel... et je suis sûr que tu es ravi que ce foutu pied de biche m'a loupé...<br />Alors... c'est que le programme pour ce soir ??? Bon, je passerais voir...<br /><br />Ciao, mon ami, merci pour tous tes efforts quand même avec l'anglais... tu vas arriver...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Ah Deborah, cela me rassure, que tu n'es pas en train de tapoter des commentaires sur des blogs à 5 heures du matin quand même... Have a great trip then in Canada !<br /><br />======<br /><br />Deirdre, hi... you may be right, there are probably alot more flying tools out there than we know about, some may be flying so fast we don't see them... thanks for dropping in here btw...<br />:-)<br /><br />======<br /><br />Dearest Saj, you are right, entirely, I'm a clumsy sod for sure, and I did not read the safety manual for that crowbar, which surely would have warned me against smacking it with a pickaxe... silly me ! So, you gave in to pressure from that big sister... jeez, us twins should stick together, no ?<br /><br />======<br /><br />Hey @eloh, jeez, I've heard of people shooting themselves in the foot, but never in the ass ! And twice ! That's a bum deal...<br /><br />The newspapers would have probably said : "Caution, do not go out of doors, as crowbars are being fired at innocent civilians by UFOs " !<br />Well, depending on which newspaper... Many thanks !Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-38578953337548371752009-11-29T00:49:14.048+01:002009-11-29T00:49:14.048+01:00This kind of thing gives wives and mothers shivers...This kind of thing gives wives and mothers shivers when their loved ones pick up large, heavy, implements. AAK! Thankfully all's well that ends well.ladydihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04768310299153608882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-28199496687260318302009-11-28T06:04:06.949+01:002009-11-28T06:04:06.949+01:00All, I'll be back here to continue answering a...All, I'll be back here to continue answering all you wickedly wonderful people just as soon as I can, but right now, my pillow is calling me to come float in dreamland for the next six or seven hours... a fine weekend to each and every one of you...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-90394120767557538962009-11-28T06:01:59.518+01:002009-11-28T06:01:59.518+01:00Dear dear Roxana... I have been so intrigued by wh...Dear dear Roxana... I have been so intrigued by what you may do to keep going, to earn a living, and I keep thinking you must be in a university, a professor to inquiring young minds, or purely an artist with a gallery in Craiova perhaps, or maybe just the princess in that castle I mentioned, but whatever, you have such an incredible way with words... were I vainer than I am, I would print and frame the small paragraph you have written here, I don't think anyone has ever summed up what I am trying to do so... so... perfectly as you have here. Yes, that is it, fleeting glimpses of the mundane; you are a sorceress with words and images... and once again tonight I will be off to sleep with your series of the colors of our pain floating, floating on these eyelids...<br /><br />Ah, and yes Roxana, a "crowbar", now there is a good word, although I don't know why it is called a "crow"-bar, nothing much to do with large black birds about it, nor why the French call it a "pied de biche"... I sort of like that, a "pied de biche"... the French also affectionately refer to someone they like alot as "ma biche", so, I wish you a fine weekend, ma biche...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Hi Steve, well, puncture wounds can be among the worst you know, one doesn't want them to get infected...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Bonjour chère Karine, je suis profondement désolé de ne pas avoir traduit en français, il y a Jeff aussi qui réclame une traduction, mais le temps me manque sérieusement ces jours-ci, pour le boulot le pire moment de l'année... le mois avant Noel, grace à notre société de consommation de petits cadeaux... je préferent les cadeaux comme ce que tu viens de laisser ici, car même si l'anglais est un peu obscur, le simple fait que tu es passée, que tu as laissé un petit mot sympa, me touche, me touche... En tout cas, tout cela se résume en quelques mots; un jour en creusant dans mon jardin derrière la maison pour enlever des dalles en beton que les proprietaires avant avaient laissées, en tapant fort avec une pioche, j'ai malencontreusement tapé sur le bout d'un pied-de-biche que j'avais laissé trainé, le choc l'a lancé dans l'air, le pied-de-biche, comme une fusée qui monte, passant à coté de ma tête par qqs centimetres et jusqu'en haut d'un arbre par là ... donc, le "poème" racontait mon soulagement d'être encore en vie, sans pied-de-biche à travers la tête... bref, une histoire idiote, mais parfois la vie nous propose des situations inattendues et un peu idiotes...<br />Bon weekend Karine... merci encore...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Hi Nevine, yeah, close to annihilation at times, sometimes I think I've had more than my fair share of brushes with annihilation... I won't go into the parachute accident here... ! Or the car wrecks... or...<br />:-)<br />But in any case, yes, I'm happy to still be here, even if just a little longer, one never knows... every day is seeming very precious to me these days. These blogging exchanges for some reason seem totally intense and fraught with surprising pleasures and joys and laughter... and your writing is weaving itself right into that tapestry which is the blogosphere, I'm so happy to have stumbled by chance on Dreams & Deliriums...<br /><br />======Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-87227205584583168012009-11-28T05:32:25.173+01:002009-11-28T05:32:25.173+01:00Jimmy B, no that doesn't sound pretty, but the...Jimmy B, no that doesn't sound pretty, but then I guess most everybody at some point or another has seen the bloody side of life, that serves to remind us how fragile we are... <br /><br />PS, I loved your story about grandkids asking questions about deities and heaven... I think you were right to refer them to the squirrel... squirrels are smarter than we know...<br /><br />======<br /><br />Adam ! I'll bet she wasn't happy ! You must write now 100 times : I will not shoot staples at my sister, I will not shoot ....<br />:-D<br /><br />======<br /><br />Dear Lone Grey, that's incredible... guess the axe was fairly sharp. Wow ! What a terrible thing to have to explain to the cute nurses... <br /><br />PS, if you have a second, see Jimmy B's comment above, and click through to his blog, in a very recent post just a day or two ago there is a nice reference to squirrels... I didn't copy the link into your comment box as there wasn't a photo, but I thought about you... funny, eh ? Am seeing squirrels everywhere since finding your blog...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-52668439024804732712009-11-28T01:31:13.696+01:002009-11-28T01:31:13.696+01:00There is still much 'need' of you, which f...There is still much 'need' of you, which forces you to remain.<br /><br />A wonderful weekend for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-16112843030780782982009-11-27T19:15:54.333+01:002009-11-27T19:15:54.333+01:00Fabulous poem, cher! I laughed so hard at your des...Fabulous poem, cher! I laughed so hard at your descriptions of the cats sh------ ground and pi----- palace! And maybe the crowbar was left over from the last chap who tried to dig up this mystery pit! Seriously, glad you weren't hurt!Margueritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15846051579802335412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-50909334781396012452009-11-27T18:23:58.922+01:002009-11-27T18:23:58.922+01:00I had to quickly jump ahead to the end to make sur...I had to quickly jump ahead to the end to make sure I wasn't going to find a tragic ending there. It still made me wince though.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-7852058284295721362009-11-27T16:29:14.682+01:002009-11-27T16:29:14.682+01:00:-)
A quick note regarding the photo blog of Yani...:-)<br /><br />A quick note regarding the photo blog of Yanidel, which I like very much, and his post dated today will be of great interest for you I am sure : http://blog.yanidel.com/2009/11/26/when-dogs-lay-6-feet-under-cats-grin/<br /><br />Take care my dear Owen<br />LoulouLoulouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805144600478832967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-69118164949610450562009-11-27T15:28:49.076+01:002009-11-27T15:28:49.076+01:00Nice writing of what could have been another stupi...Nice writing of what could have been another stupid accident - almost all accidents are! Happy it went well, so you could tell us about it!PeterParishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09694538476960957295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-28149841153218277262009-11-27T03:09:49.270+01:002009-11-27T03:09:49.270+01:00Oh my! Put away that crowbar! I am terrible about ...Oh my! Put away that crowbar! I am terrible about my garden tools! On occassion have stepped on a rake and whacked my head! But crowbars, axes, and other heavy objects -- those I am much much more careful with :-). Thank goodness no damage done!L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03946598641243828688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-74836490509861872152009-11-27T01:33:05.371+01:002009-11-27T01:33:05.371+01:00The good thing for your wife and family is that yo...The good thing for your wife and family is that you state clearly in this post that you learned something from this incident. It did make a lasting impression on you. That's good. Hope you and the family had a wonderful Thanksgiving.CiCihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615265608675467505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-31424087882450793492009-11-27T01:26:31.947+01:002009-11-27T01:26:31.947+01:00So a little Thanks-giving is happening on your sid...So a little Thanks-giving is happening on your side of the Atlantic too.. Lucky you!!!<br />Maybe the previous owner tried to remove them too but he wasn't so lucky... and that is why they are still there... maybe those cement slabs are not to be removed !!! You have been warned!!!<br /><br />John gave Tthanks last winter in the middle of a furious blizzard when he caught himself just before he almost fell off the roof (about 28' up or down whichever way you look at it) .. he was trying to fix roofing shingles being ripped off by a ferocious snow storm.. He didn't tell me for several days... and there wasn't enough snow on the ground to save his soul...Gwen Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410235558740636534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-24750170436555442052009-11-26T23:39:49.850+01:002009-11-26T23:39:49.850+01:00I was once forced to briefly work with a guy who h...I was once forced to briefly work with a guy who had shot himself in the ass on TWO separate occasions. Both times while getting into a car. He was still wearing his gun in the back waistband of his pants. Some people just don't learn.<br /><br />I wonder what the newspapers would have said happened if you had not survived this incident and there had been no witnesses.<br /><br /><br />Another fine poem.@elohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15974297923741455898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-36268210301934255882009-11-26T21:34:43.048+01:002009-11-26T21:34:43.048+01:00Oh dear oh dear, glad you're ok there Clumsy S...Oh dear oh dear, glad you're ok there Clumsy Sod! I am only laughing cos Big Sis is laughing and she threatened to pinch me if I didn't laugh with her!<br />Seriously, the health & safety wallah in me is cringing...where was your job safety analysis?The Sagittarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513045101496737031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-44804874965026647872009-11-26T21:21:52.722+01:002009-11-26T21:21:52.722+01:00One must watch out for flying tools.One must watch out for flying tools.Deidrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993934232617420348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-8892095924200369192009-11-26T19:51:29.215+01:002009-11-26T19:51:29.215+01:00The sun comes up 8 hours earlier here - where the...The sun comes up 8 hours earlier here - where the Rockies are within view. I'm in the midst of a Canadian urban sojourn and enjoying the change from quiet, rural, Provencal life.Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10892637441668897411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-23962345549747359122009-11-26T18:55:51.170+01:002009-11-26T18:55:51.170+01:00Hé bien, tu vois ! Pour une fois... Même avec le t...Hé bien, tu vois ! Pour une fois... Même avec le traducteur, je me suis régalé ! C'est pas que les autres fois je me faisais... tu m'as compris... chier... allez, n'ayons pas peur des mots... Mais là... J'ai adoré ton texte et ton histoire !...;-)<br />Pied de biche ! Connais-tu Owen le pied jaloux et le piège à loup ?...;-)<br /><br />Ceci dit, tu devrais remettre des photos... Les mangeurs de grenouilles qui ne savent pas lire ce foutu british et qui ont la flemme de faire fonctionner leur traducteur sont aller se faire voir ailleurs ! ! !...<br />Sans déconner ! Tu pourrais pas nous pondre un peu de français ! Tu pourrais céder à ma demande ! Merde !...:)))<br /><br />Ciao amigopix !<br />Ta poésie est bien belle mon ami !<br />...;-)jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706496619691322297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-62122938078253902022009-11-26T18:02:05.999+01:002009-11-26T18:02:05.999+01:00Owen, that was what they call "grande arte&qu...Owen, that was what they call "grande arte"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-84794202777321448542009-11-26T17:27:35.643+01:002009-11-26T17:27:35.643+01:00Owen,
You must be more careful! I'll admit you...Owen,<br />You must be more careful! I'll admit your recounting of the whole episode had me laughing a bit. Tell us, did you finish the job?<br />VVirginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01152464973355194995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-66364704094705519342009-11-26T16:51:17.985+01:002009-11-26T16:51:17.985+01:00Yow, Owen! Close call, indeed... and I do understa...Yow, Owen! Close call, indeed... and I do understand, totally. You did win the lottery, buddy. Even better, you won your life. I tell you, I don't know how sometimes things like this happen, that we're about to be annihilated, but somehow make it through. Something out there... in another dimension... I don't know what it is, but I'm glad it grabbed you and kept you here. I'm happy to wish you a beautiful day, Owen, and to thank you for sharing this experience. It's a tie that binds.<br /><br />NevineNevine Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08794887684860140819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-90065278020158081232009-11-26T16:02:16.031+01:002009-11-26T16:02:16.031+01:00owen je suis désolée je n'ai pas tout compris,...owen je suis désolée je n'ai pas tout compris, mon anglais me fais défaut mais je vais revenir et prendre mon temps pour te lire à nouveau :-)<br /><br />ps : je ne suis pas peintre mais j'adore la peinture (j'aurais adoré !!!)<br /><br />je t'embrasse fort mon owen xxx:: Karine ::https://www.blogger.com/profile/14136116349598940204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-89485851467898979292009-11-26T13:41:49.367+01:002009-11-26T13:41:49.367+01:00I once punctured my fingertip trying to remove a b...I once punctured my fingertip trying to remove a bent staple from a staple gun. But that really doesn't compare...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.com