This will hurt me...

Problems with the InterTubes last night - a slow, tortuous exercise that bought back unhappy memories of dial up - meant that my usual nightly post of one of my offspring wasn't going to happen with the kind of patience unavailable to me after a week of work. Thus, you get this six week old shot of Ez looking like a Belarussian chef preparing calves tongue in 1976. Enjoy!

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Have you seen that film War Games ? You know, the one where Ferris Bueller is playing Berserk and all of a sudden he's got the KGB, the CIA, FBI, DEA, PTA and BURP on his tail, the Kremlin of red alert, Johnny 5's girlfriend shocked and an angry Dabney Coleman bristling at the camera. Anyway, Henry with a laptop is kind of like that. Only more like the one where Ferris Bueller cruises around in a Ferrari and ends up channelling a hoarse John Lennon.

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh! The Shadow knows ...

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

For those hanging out of a recent glimpse of the lads, here is Ezra from yesterday afternoon, just after he parachuted from a plane, free fell 3,000 metres, and then crashed through the roof into out kitchen. As you can see from the look on his face, he is enjoying his paratrooper training very much. I decided not to show the images after he fixed his bayonet and chased Henry around the house.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Scotch on the rocks. Straight up. It ain't easy being two-and-a-half.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Isn't it always the way? You come home, you've lost your voice, you have to get the dinner on and feed the tired an cranky masses, and there's a bloody robot in the kitchen ! Not only that, but the robot seems to have developed a thing for the rubbish bin. It's very creepy.

Henry versus the parnips

The Henry faction were upset that the Ezra faction were treated with a video last week. Here is the square up, with Henry doing his best Nigella Lawson impression.