"Appalachian Clogging Board" Prototype I

Built to withstand the rigours of an Appalachian Clogger doing her thing.

Internal and external steel reinforcing brackets. Not a nail in the whole thing.

Now if only we could get the Coefficient of Friction of the wood surface just right ..........

Greener Every Day

I guess being in (very green) Austin, it was only a matter of time before composting took its place in our lives.

Relatively high tech ??????

Box for the Owl Family

Here is the new owl box thanks to Steve (construction) and Chris (installation)

Now we just have to wait for Mr or Mrs Owl.

Silly Songs

What else do you do while in the last stages of a 55-mile bike ride and you are struggling into a ferocious headwind? Sing silly songs of course. And then you enter into a debate as to whether more of these silly songs originated on one side of the Atlantic or another. Check them out and see how silly one can be.

Pink Toothbrush Blue Toothbrush. Max Bygraves (UK). From the London Docklands. Sharon claims I sang this to her during our courting days but the Truth-o-meter might have a problem with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4l-NrckIJk

Seven Little Girls. Paul Evans (USA). Would these lyrics even pass the censors today? Evans was also well known for morbid car-crash songs!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwREhIEhIuE

Telephone Man. Meri Wilson (USA). A song with “with suggestive lyrics and a breathy squealing voice”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO18k215gpk

Lollipop. Chordettes (USA).

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And I can’t bring myself to link “Yummy Yummy Yummy, I’ve got Love in my Tummy” so I will close with a rhyme that is not on YouTube:

I wish I were a little grub

With whiskers round my tummy.

I'd climb into a honey pot

And make my tummy gummy.