Saturday 19 June 2004

No more cheap sneers...

Enough of this pseudo-intellectual posturing, these pretentious literary musings! Away with those vicious jibes and that snide criticism! Cut out the feeble wisecracks, stop showing cynical disrespect for ordinary decent folks!

These things I have vowed, for it is time I showed myself in my true colours, as a simple and kindly old homebody and family man. So.....
Here's a nice picture of my wife Anne:


And one of our cat Misty:


And here am I, busy planning new acts of unsolicited benevolence:

And get a load of that delphinium!

6 comments:

Rethabile said...

There you are...Tony with a capital T. That looks like a very comfortable back or front garden you've got there. Lovely. I'm probably not qualified to review blogs, but OMF reads like good text (as you may know, I describe things by what they do to me), one that while you conduct other business you're hoping to get a minute or two to read. And where did you get that French limerick from?

Tony said...

Hello Rethabile
I'm sure you're much better qualified to review blogs than I am, but after The Weblog Review were nice about OMF I have applied to join their review staff. I had to state my favourite blog and I said On English, and write a sample review, for which I chose Naked Translations. I'll let you know what happens.

The limerick was in one of John Julius Norwich's collections of short literary items sent out to his friends at Christmas; I don't know where he got it.

Sal said...

> delphiniumisn't that perpoiseous?

Tony said...

No, you're thinking of lamellotias. Get near them and they'll give you osteocoreopsis.

Rethabile said...

Ahem... what are you folks saying?!

Tony said...

Don't worry about it - we're just being feebly facetious.