Barry from the Clarry

No more apparently, seems like Barry has left the Clarendon Arms.
A shame, at least for a segment of the drinking classes, it was a good pub with a good crowd, despite being Greene King. I've personally quite happily lost a few Sunday afternoons there.
It'll be interesting to see what it's like when it re-opens, interesting but most likely disappointing.

It's strange how pubs are small communities, seemingly permanent but in reality constantly changing; people leaving, dying, joining and at times places changing hands or closing completely. Schweben und schwinden as Herder would say.
There's probably a lesson in there somewhere.

Tattoo

Yesterday I finally got Alec to cover up the couple of old tattoos on my left wrist that have been bothering me for a while.
The Imperial Eagle just seemed like a good design at the time, and technically the 'Totenkopf' text just meant 'skull' in German, although it would me misleading of me to deny that I knew it was also the name of a Waffen SS division.
But I was only 17 at the time...

Recently though I've caught myself consciously hiding that arm, especially when in Germany, so time to cover it up. I would have been happy with just blocking it in with black, but I think Alec's idea of the bats works better.

I think it'll turn out fine, but whatever happens it's one less reason for people to mistakenly take me for a Nazi, although jeans and boots will still do that for your average Sun reader.

Sod's Law

This morning I had a contact lens fitting, but after sitting at home with my eyes streaming because of the bloody cold I've had for a day or two I cancelled it.
Now I feel much better, surely there's a Murphy's style law for that?

At least I'll be OK now for DJing for the Peacocks at the weekend.

Dead Soldiers

Why when reporting on the deaths of Servicemen do the news reports always say: "Their families have been informed"?

Surely it´s obvious that the families have been informed, otherwise they wouldn´t be reporting the names, and if they weren´t informed beforehand then it´s a bit late now.