Lorraine's rock

What's it about....nobody knows....

watch out for children

....they'll destroy you if you don't......

speling erors in bolg

it haz bean sugested to me that hteir ar two manee speling aros in the bgol. Ov cors this is noncents!!! Eye wil trie hardur

Hadrian built a wall

One day Hadrian decided to build a wall. He was fed up with all the noise from his neighbours, the Scots. They were a wild lot and lowered the tone of the neighbourhood, which severely affected property values. They wore dresses and never bathed. Hadrian was the CEO of Roman Inc at the time and though he wasn't really a local, he was big and powerful. He rounded up some guest workers from Poland or some other far-flung corner of the empire and damn well built a bloody great wall from west to east (or was it east to west?) across the whole country to keep the Scots out. It only took him and his mates 7 years to build with no outsourcing or sub-contracting! After several thousand years Rome Inc decided that they had enough of the whole island and decided that those damn Scots could have that Godforsaken place which they called Scot-land and resume their endless battles with the tribes to the south. Anyway it was bloody freezing and never stopped raining. Rome Inc had started fighting amongst themselves were fed up with empire building - it wasn't worth trying to civilize those barbarians. So they cleared off back to Rome to sort out the internal factional problems and left the locals to it. Of course they showed no respect and pinched all the stone from the wall for their houses. However Hadrian built his wall to last and it was bloody long so it will probably last for a few thousand years...see photo

happy....not happy

I think the photos speak for themselves......

Skype

At last we've set up the little camera so if anyone wants to Skype us to be reminded of what we look like (do you want to reminded....?)as well as talk to us you can do so. I can even take you on a guided tour of the house (doesn't take long!. Skype address is neil.andrew.mckenzie. You'll have to download it first of course if you haven't got it already. If you don't know how talk to a local nerd/geek.

mother & daughter

During the last break we stayed for a few days with Tori, Lorraine's daughter, at her lovely, but temporary accommodation near Bath. Tori is a director's assistant and is currently working on a BBC production of Tess and the d'Urbevilles. She invited us to visit the set one day and see what she acually does. This is the first time Lorraine has actually seen Tori in action at work and she is a dynamo. She has 2 mobile phones, and is invariably talking into both, one from the set and one dealing with outside enquiries. This is the best shot of mother & daughter that I have seen for while.