Christmas Hollie !!

As you might expect I took a few photographs on Christmas Day including this one:

A bit sombre perhaps ...

... morbid even, but what is it about this time of year. I have a perception that a lot of famous people choose this holiday time of year to shuffle off the mortal coil.

This year - on Christmas Eve Charlie Drake, slapstick british comedian died. On Christmas Day James Brown, music legend and Godfather of Soul died. And on Boxing Day, Dennis Linde died, he wrote Elvis' Burning Love, the Dixie Chicks' Goodbye Earl and Garth Brooks' Callin' Baton Rouge.

Now my 3 at Christmas theory was feeling a bit tenuous with the inclusion of Dennis (sorry Dennis, but frankly, I had never heard of you despite those 3 songs being very well known). But then this morning I fire up the bbc news website and see that Gerald Ford, America's 38th President has died too. I don't have particularly strong feelings about American Presidents - either positive or negative, but I always quite liked Gerald Ford, he seemed OK to me and his wife has a fantastic legacy with her work against drug and alcohol addiction.

So interestingly I found a pub quiz help website which supports my theory a little bit, Dean Martin and Charlie Chaplin both having popped their clogs on Christmas Days. And at the same time informs me that I share birthdays with people such as Sir Issac Newton, Humphrey Bogart, Annie Lennox, Helena Christensen and Dido !!

Oh yeah check this out:

Christmas Eves
Christmas Days
Boxing Days

Don't you just love the internet?

Titles !!

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Thanks for this Bin, I like it. To be honest it took me a while to get that one.

But this was the first hit for Marie ... LOL.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Royal Highness Marie the Ineffable of Throcking in the Hole Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

and ...

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Eminence the Very Viscountess Kimberly the Assiduous of Witchampton Under Buzzard Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

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My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Countess-Palatine Margaret the Charming of Menzies on the Minges Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

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To duplicate or not?

I am not sure yet how this is going to work - but for now:

Frustrated

Never could just have one ...

... of anything. And as of today I have a Live Journal account - I'll probably be just as bad blogging there as I am here. I got it so that I can post comments on my friends LJ blogs.

Simes2112

So there !

Another Month Rolls By !!

I used to be really quite good at blogging - probably for about 2 years or so I was blogging at least daily and often more frequently than that. Now though, weeks go by before I make another entry.

Perhaps this is because there is simply nothing in my life worth writing about - but frankly this is not true. Loads of stuff happens but somehow most of it I am reluctant to post in a public blog.

This I have concluded is a combination of ego and paranoia. Ego, because I am assuming that people actually read this. Paranoia, because I assume that people that can do nasty things to my life read it.

The chances are that hardly anyone reads it - the evidence would suggest this, practically no comments are ever made on my blog. Whereas some of my friends that blog get lots of comments on their blogs. On that score, though I am not paranoid - because they're friends that comment are for the most part fellow bloggers.

And I *know* that some of my friends that blog are even worse at blogging regularly than I am. And I have a lot of friends, colleagues and family who simply don't blog - or at least as far as I am aware they don't. I could be in for a surprise.

Anyway, this blog entry has now become what my friend Benji would probably describe as "vacuous". It is almost certainly too long (for something that actually says nothing) and besides I am thirsty and I can feel a Coke Zero coming on.