“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice. But I can do something else. I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
Thank you for your dignity, kindness, warmth and devotion throughout your seventy years on the throne. Thank you for everything Queen Elizabeth II. May you rest in peace.
It’s flown by so fast, but it really has been 9 years since I set up the blog. I just wanted to thank you for being such a great readership. You are the awesome ones. And to add that I will be posting more soon. I’ve been reading plenty and have lots of travel photos too.
Another wonderful cartoon by the fantastic Liz Climo. You can find more of her cartoons on her homepage.
Rear Admiral: The end is inevitable, Maverick. Your kind is headed for extinction.
Maverick: Maybe so, sir. But not today.
Ed Harris and Tom Cruise in the sensational Top Gun: Maverick (2022), a long-awaited sequel to the hugely popular Top Gun (1986).
I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Taken from the novel High Fidelity (1995) by British writer Nick Hornby. Told in a stream of consciousness, it tells of the main character’s struggle to cope with a break up and how it relates to his life overall. I read it years ago but it was very interesting rereading it over 20 years later.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
Taken from Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, though it has had other titles.
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
Taken from The Book Thief by Australian writer Markus Zusak. The novel is set during World War II and narrated by Death. I could easily have quoted a dozen quotes from this extraordinary book.
Hey everyone. Sorry for the long radio silence. A lot has been going on. But I promise to be putting up more posts soon. I’ll be catching up on your blogs too. This is from the Harry Potter Experience in Covent Garden, London.
Milton Berle: Now, just a minute please. I have been a successful comedian half of my life
Statler & Waldorf: So how come we got this half?
American actor and comedian Milton Berle and the heckling muppets Statler and Waldorf. Known as ‘Mr Television’, Berle had two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was affectionately lampooned in this memorable 1977 scene.
Alex Raphael 