{"id":1551,"date":"2012-06-02T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2012-06-02T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T07:53:15","slug":"out-out-damned-spotty-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Out, out, damned Spotty Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, and I know you will find this hard to believe, I can’t think of anything to say.<\/p>\n

No flurry of verbiage rushes unbidden to the tongue.\u00a0 No tales, badly told, of chums’ misdeeds or misfortunes are haphazardly heaped on the hapless listener (ok, enough of that).\u00a0 In truth and in short, I have had a weird cold which felt like someone was squeezing my brain, plus we have been very busy in the office.\u00a0\u00a0 The combined effect was to leave a silence in any down time.\u00a0 But, back to me now, so roll out the corgis and let’s have a lovely long holiday weekend.\u00a0 Whatever your views on the Golden Jubilee it’s a rare excuse for pictures of this canine leitmotif.\u00a0\u00a0 And sixty years in any job deserves a mention.<\/p>\n

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But just in case you all wax too cheerful, for no reason that I can think of*, the speech by the lead character in the eponymous Scottish play popped into my head.\u00a0\u00a0 Verily, nature abhors a vacuum.<\/p>\n

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
\nCreeps in this petty pace from day to day
\nTo the last syllable of recorded time,
\nAnd all our yesterdays have lighted fools
\nThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
\nLife’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
\nThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage
\nAnd then is heard no more: it is a tale
\nTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
\nSignifying nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

William Shakespeare, the Scottish play<\/em>, Act V Scene V.<\/p>\n

So, last night we went to see\u00a0 The Angel’s Share<\/em>, the new Ken Loach film which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival recently.\u00a0\u00a0 Set in Glasgow,\u00a0 it has some very funny moments, a decent social message and and moral dilemmas; filmed in Scotland\u00a0 – what’s not to like?\u00a0\u00a0 After that we went to Wannaburger at the West End.\u00a0 The dining salon may be basic and you need GPS to find the loos but the burgers** are brill, the staff are lovely and there’s the added pleasure of nosing in Rae Mac’s<\/a> windows.\u00a0\u00a0 Plus you hold onto a wee buzzy thing to tell you when your order is ready.<\/p>\n

Good grief, it’s 08:44, I have been up for 2 hours 44 minutes and have had not one cup of\u00a0 tea.\u00a0\u00a0 That’ll be why I made up the word unsalubrious and then found out that if it did exist it wouldn’t mean what I thought it did.<\/p>\n

* I do know but it’s long and not very interesting.<\/p>\n

**only ever had the veggie options<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, and I know you will find this hard to believe, I can’t think of anything to say. No flurry of verbiage rushes unbidden to the tongue.\u00a0 No tales, badly told, of chums’ misdeeds or misfortunes are haphazardly heaped on the hapless listener (ok, enough of that).\u00a0 In truth and in short, I have had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,11,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-film","category-food","category-music","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}