One week old Moose orphaned from birth

                                                     Orphaned from birth

Eagles - 'Take It To The Limit' (lyrics in description)

Not only a great building, but a brewery to boot!

Eagles - 'Wasted Time' (lyrics in description)

Eagles - 'The Last Resort' (lyrics in description)

Kadzidłowo Animal Park

       Wonderfully cute little fella with a white face and spindly legs:-)

Restaurant Spizarnia Warminska

Spizarnia Warminska

Then on with the food. But first a brief interlude, well actually quite a long interlude. The worthy ethos of the restaurant is eco-friendliness. Great. Cool. But as we try to digest the relatively short menu, the waiter goes into his ‘where everything is grown’ and ‘how the food is prepared mode.’ Worthy but a little overlong. Food ordered and the place is looking good. Modern and clean with pots of herbs sprouting from numerous vantage points.

 

The food is served and its looking good. Cream of celery with horseradish. The horseradish was cunningly served in little white spheres that exploded with flavour as one bit joyfully into them. Great soup.  My wife’s soup looks good, too. Cream of beetroot, but is actually rather too sweet for her palette.

 

Main courses of steak au gratin and marinated pork land on the table. The steak is passable with a sharp knife and the supporting celery  The wife had a stab at the chop, but again found the dressing it slightly too sweet. All in all the ambience and sophistication of the restaurant was good. But apart from the soup and the bespotted dolls, the food, whilst still edible, didn’t quite come up to expectations.  

 

Restaurant Spizarnia Warminksa

SpizarniaWarminska

So there we go, time to try a slightly different eatery from the norm. Olsztyn beckoned and Spizarnia Warminska opened its doors to us. These guys welcomed us and kept an eye out for us as we munched. A really nice touch and great for those with kids in tow.

 

Pilots we trust, Tipsy but able?

A profession we trust. Standards of the highest. Yes, a pilot, a pilot of a commercial airliner packed with people. Trusting peopel.

And then we have a Jet Blue pilot from the states. This pillar of trust flies his passengers from JFK to Florida. Then he is administered a random test to check for alcohol. Busted. Over the limit and it must be clearly stated that Jet Blue, quite rightly, have a zero tolerance attitude.

So this gentlemen is then asked to give a second test. On the way to the test he starts to chew  gum. Of course, the second test is almost as bad a result as the first. Can you belive the pilot blames his alcohol result on chewing gum!
And then he actualy asks why he is not being tested for drugs! What he actually telling the testers that he had taken drugs as well, not just a tipple or seven

Fly the friendly, tipsy skies;-)

What can you do with a potato?

Lesson warm up question.
What can you do with a potato?

1. Peel it
2. Boil it 
3. Chop it
4. Cut it into a square, hollow out windows and rooms and use it as a house for destitute mice
5. Make chips
6. Throw it
7. Catch it
8. Test the theory of gravity and drop it
9. Use the curly peel as errings
10. Speak to it
11. Hold and cuddle it
12. Roll it
13. Rock it
14. Carve into the mage of your favourite celebrity and never be lonely
15. Suck it
16. Sit on it
17. Use a a paperweight
18. Shape into a banana and give to a confused monkey
19. Post it
20. Take a selfie with it
21. Hollow it out and use as a soap holder
22. Smoke it

Go wisely

Shakespeare style put down

“Thine forward voice, now, is to speak well of thine friend; thine backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.”

Swamp Beauty

Grass, Butterfly and Shadow

                              Biebrzański Park Narodowy

The Netherlands to abandon law against insulting foreign heads of state

 

Correct thinking from the Netherlands, let us get back to free speech and less prissy Orwellian thought control from the  spoon fed P.C. brigade!

Victoria Wood R.I.P.

"Theophilus Thistle

Say as quickly as you can.


"Theophilus Thistle, a successful young thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. 

Now see if thou, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb!"

Englishman living and teaching abroad: Polish provincial spire

Englishman living and teaching abroad: Polish provincial spire

Englishman living and teaching abroad: Grazing majesty

Englishman living and teaching abroad: Grazing majesty

Johnny Express

Grazing under slate grey skies laden with rain

Rain drenched timber tower and bridge

Shop robot mission creep

Automation.........everyone thinks it is bad. Takes jobs, soulless and makes humans even more lazy and feckless. But mission creep has already commenced in the supermarkets. 

Being served by a woman, middle aged and functional. A polite entreaty is offered in a corporate tone. Bland and toneless. However I tell her that we have two small lots of shopping to be paid ro separately. Nothing...not a asausage by way of recognition of the words. 

The belt moves, the second amount of food shunts into her arms reach. The cashier repeats the same corporate hello. No humanity behind blue eyes. Success. the supermarket has turned a normal woman into a robot. Onwards and upwards!
 

...........and always remember to press the send key.