Archive for January 15, 2009

Napkin Wars

Jan 15th

Posted by English Mike in Humor (but not as we know it)

Did you know that flight attendants are legally required to hand you a napkin whenever they give you a drink?

Me neither!

And yet, that’s what a Delta flight attendant told me on my flight back from London a couple of weeks ago, as she was serving me a Diet Coke.  I was reading my newspaper when they came round with the drinks trolley, and since they never give you the whole can anymore, I just wanted to hang onto the plastic cup without deploying the tray.  So with newspaper in one hand, and a cup of Diet Coke in the other, I declined the proffered napkin.

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Love Nest?

Jan 15th

Posted by English Mike in Vacation Photos


A Pair of African Tawny Eagles

During one of the game drives at Ngala last summer, we came across a beautiful pair of African tawny eagles perched on a tree branch nearby.  We were just asking our guide if they might be a breeding pair when our question was answered for us by the eagles themselves…

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A Little Tweaking Here and There

Jan 15th

Posted by English Mike in Blog Stuff

Now that I’m getting up to speed again on the blog, I decided to update the blog’s theme to allow for paged and threaded comments, as supported under WordPress 2.7. After an afternoon of misery and frustration (and has anything in the history of humankind been more frustating than CSS to use?) everything seems to be working okay.

Hey, I’ve even managed to get Gavatars working!

What fun! (Just don’t tell Brandon, or he’ll be wanting them on his blog too!).