Toadfish Monastery

Reasonably sunny and around 5° / 41°, but a biting E. wind cuts through you.  Still plenty of snow on the higher hilltops.

Swept the lounge chimney this morning, aided by Cap'n B in his oldest clothes - but he still got very black, not surprisingly.   

Vast quantities of soot reminded me that I hadn't swept it for far too long.

2013

Oxford won in a classic race.  Very little pushing and shoving went on after last year's disaster.  Before last year it had been getting nastier and nastier, but this was a fair race and Cambridge rowed gallantly  despite never being in front at any stage.

The Sixty-One minus Zero Chapter

The wind came with too many memories of burnt hair from fartlighting to be taken seriously. But still the stench lingered on like a stubborn barnacle, unwilling to let go however strong a disinfectant made from hydrolic acid and penta-iodo-methane they drank ("They" being stubborn barnacles) or whatever, stinking out the Archimandrite's left nostril . Lacking a suitable orifice for proper disposal of the large blue whale, Emilio opened the letter Q with

The Sixty-One minus Zero Chapter

The wind came with too many memories of burnt hair from fartlighting to be taken seriously. But still the stench lingered on like a stubborn barnacle, unwilling to let go however strong a disinfectant made from hydrolic acid and penta-iodo-methane they drank ("They" being stubborn barnacles) or whatever, stinking out the Archimandrite's left nostril . Lacking a suitable orifice for proper disposal of the large blue whale, Emilio opened

There isn't any meaning in it - just a lot of strange acronyms to make us think they know what they're doing.

Hingolgin - shadowy éminence grise behind the Russian revolution, this Buktranian splodnik was responsible for secreting ignoble bourgeois objects in Grodnivian's underwear, which led to his precipitate downfall.

pundifold

At that Mother got proper blazing,
'And thank you, sir, kindly,' said she.
'What, waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!'

The Sixty-One minus Zero Chapter

The wind came with too many memories of burnt hair from fartlighting to be taken seriously. But still the stench lingered on like a stubborn barnacle, unwilling to let go however strong a disinfectant made from hydrolic acid and penta-iodo-methane they drank ("They" being stubborn barnacles) or whatever, stinking out the Archimandrite's

untergabden -  garment worn under the Gabden in cold weather.  In severe conditions an Übergabden may also be added.

strink

The Sixty-One minus Zero Chapter

The wind came with too many memories of burnt hair from fartlighting to be taken seriously. But still the stench lingered on like a stubborn barnacle, unwilling to let go however strong a disinfectant made from hydrolic acid and penta-iodo-methane they drank

Came back from Exeter today.  Snow now only on the hilltops, still cold but the wind is not so biting, roads are dry.  A damn sight easier than the journey out. 

oterbeck - a district of Yorkshire so remote that it was last visited in 1693.  A henpecked husband is said to be oterbeck and call, meaning that he is never seen in the pub.

samperly

sirbintle - what they do to you in a mosque if you forget to take your shoes off.

meab

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.  George Bernard Shaw