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The blog returns
20six is back in action; its disappearance was temporary. I shall carry on as usual.
Airfix, the firm that used to make model aeroplane kits, packed up and is to be revived by Hornby. A review of a programme about it to be shown on telly next week ended: 'But will the children of the electronic era be interested in toys that need patience, skill and the legitimate use of glue?'
Modern Times (a question and answer section about modern manners) in today's Times has a question from a woman who says that her father, aged 87, is a noisy eater. This so appalls her husband that he doesn't want to eat with him again. The woman asks for advice. The columnist, judging by his usual replies, is a live and let live person, a don't rock the boat person. He tells the woman to persuade her husband to be more tolerant. I would tell her to visit her father without her husband. Her father is a noisy eater because, I imagine, no one has had the guts to tell him so.
My father is a noisy eater. Whenever I stayed with my parents after I'd left home, I ate breakfast before they did, so I was spared my father's slurping. It drove me nuts.
Thought for today
Politeness is a tacit agreement that peoples' miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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Flighty
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(2.12.07 14:53)
The name Airfix definitely takes me back to my childhood! I had just about every aeroplane kit they ever made all lovingly assembled and painted.
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