Hyper Plan v2.10 Planning Software:

Visualize your plans your way

I had a look at this software from the Winterfest sale, worked through the Quick Start Guide, and decided I don’t need another app to manage the tasks that roam through my head. I’d like to be able to use it, but my brain says no.

I’ve downloaded MarsEdit 5 to try the app again after a long interlude.

I met a Basenji just now. A gorgeous little dog, four months old and with permanent frown lines already 🙂🐶

Yesterday I found such an interesting market stall in Manly selling the Mathematicalendar. There’s even a US version, for those who like their dates round the wrong way :) The website is worth a look if you love Maths. Even moreso if you don’t.

I’m rediscovering the wonderful micro.blog and I’m amazed at what you can do with it.

NetNewsWire: Feedle: Blog Search with RSS Feeds

How on earth does anyone even get a Panther tank into their basement?

BBC story - German lawyers wrangle over pensioner’s WW2 tank in basement

There’s a log in a bog in a fog
And a dog on the log in the bog
And a frog in the bog
That’s agog at the dog
On the log in the bog in the fog

New York

The dog was sick
the cat was sad
the budgie wouldn’t talk …
The chook was dead
the cocky said
they didn’t like New York.

It’s a local but physical law,
That in England, if one is outdoor,
And an object is downed,
It will never hit ground,
But is certain to land on the floor.

Question: if I wanted to quote short snippets of popular songs, as posts in their own right, should I include a reference to the songwriter or lyricist?

For example:

Long time ago
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun

This is from Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, 1965, by Jonathan King. I never actually registered who’d recorded it. The song was just part of the musical background of my early life, and these words have stuck with me. From my current perspective, of course, they’re quite poignant.

It feels like the words can stand on their own, because in my mind they’ve done that for all these decades, and anyone of my vintage would recognise them.

But I suspect a formal attribution is always required … ?

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 21

Talking Derry Girls, masters of tech,
Going non-instrumental a sec,
Bring a Derry lad’s voice
To their anthem of choice,
With the tea level touching his neck.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 20

The sedentary sirens of yearning
Were deadly in Derry, we’re learning;
Their cover was blown,
And the the Foyle would be known
As the River of Never Returning.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 19

Little Acorns, the story untold,
The shop that came out in the cold;
A brown paper drop
And a bus at the stop …
It’s a genre that never gets old.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 18

The secrets of Ma Mary Quinn,
As revealed by the wee Tara Lynne;
It’s a glamorous gig,
With the jumpers, the wig,
And a bowl of contention within.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 17

The podcasting Derry Girls, witty,
Take a Derry Girls tour of the city
With Charlene, but a wain …
While recording the rain,
They intrepidly talk in committee.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 16

DerryLama, made blind as a sprog,
Leaves the podcasting trio agog,
For they sound, in his sight,
Rather beige; that’s in spite
Of their glamour and eau de wet dog.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 15

One’s living the life of a swell;
For the others, it’s just a hotel.
They visit, in plural,
The Derry Girls mural,
And do some annoying as well.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 14

The charming and chattable three,
Erin’s Diary, and Lisa McGee;
A Panto, poor Dopey
All pale and ropy,
And raging up there was a tree.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 13

Is it belly or stomach? Much noise.
Maybe girls are more funny than boys …
The Derry Girls three
Welcome Lisa McGee
With their usual presence and poise.

Are you a fan of Derry Girls, the hilarious television series from Northern Ireland? Two seasons have aired so far; twelve episodes of delicious, irreverent, laugh-out-loud enjoyment (Season 3 has been delayed by Covid).

If you love the show, then the Talking Derry Girls Podcast is your essential companion: a seamless merging of chatty commentary, raucous laughter, local insights and wild but irresistible digressions worthy of Uncle Colm himself.

An exercise in the joy of chatting.

Note: I’m not in any way affiliated with Talking Derry Girls. I just love their podcast :)

More posts about the Talking Derry Girls

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 12

The future looked suddenly bright,
The chosen were packing in tight,
But Jeanie’s big scoop
Was in closing the loop
On the man who appeared in the night.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 11

The bell for a telly has tolled,
A Catholic budgie is rolled;
Portnoo to Portnude
Is debatably rude,
And you’d surely be feeling the cold.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 10

The truth’s never totally said,
But death, you can take it as read:
Logistics with meaning
And none of that keening,
You’ll only be waking the dead.

The Talking Derry Girls Podcast: Episode 9

Lady Di and the Pope are a pair,
Which is conflict enough, to be fair;
But far more confusing
Is Donna’s wee newsing,
And look at the shape of that bear!