Sorry

(in Belgravia)

One of the least architecturally distinguished squares (sniff)

I hope it's part of a range and you can also get Ballardian, Orwellian, Kafkaesque ...

You've gone too far this time

Thinking about the time my daughter put googly eyes on an onion, and then got upset when I cooked with it. And that onion had more claim to be a living thing.

I like that this fact sounds both preposterous and completely plausible

(for some reason I'm badly impersonating Werner Herzog in this exchange)

Me: The Fraggle, he is impetuous, impish, alive, but destructive

Rogan: uh-huh

Me: And the Doozer, he is the builder and planner, but he is not free

Rogan: yeah

Me: The Doozer is the one that accomplishes, while the Fraggle dances and plays. But they need each other. It is a union

Rogan: wow

I can't believe I've wasted this on an unpopular Bsky post when I should have made it the basis of a Substack philosophy and laughed all the way to the bank

Budgets used to be shrouded in secrecy, didn't they? Hugh Dalton had to resign for accidentally letting slip one detail minutes before time. Whatever happened to "purdah"?

The next time we're in the pub, ask me about the RSL and I will tell you why I would vastly prefer to be part of your clearly superior organisation

Most useful self-inflicted in that situation I think

He made a lot of programs but it was Morris reading a comic script over filmed inserts (from Bristol zoo it says on Wikipedia). He also did "Tales from the Riverbank". We had several tapes/LPs of them.

Having looked it up, it was called "Animal Magic"

Was it Johnny Morris's zoo stories?

Ziggy says not enough quantum

The consequences would probably be states and industries losing all interest in whatever meagre co2 reduction they're trying at the moment

I wonder about this as well but I think he probably taped over the Bakshi version in my head rather than anything daringly original