Day 179: I Resolve To Do Nothing Except Embrace The Miracle Of Knowledge

I will not speak of Resolutions for they are, on the whole, a Nonsense designed to make us squeal with Guilt. Today alone I have not done the work I was supposed to do, done my tax return, or called back one of my oldest and most-loved friends. I despise myself for these things, but it is unlikely that I will ever stop leaving things until the last minute or being mildly forgetful, however much it saddens me.

However, there is always room to Learn New Things and it is this small fact that keeps me going through the long winter months. This very afternoon, for example, I have been giving some Deep Thought what I have learnt in the last week.

Crows do not have hands

Barely credible, I know, but True as the Oxford Museum of Natural History said it in a sign.














Beavers Are Endlessly Inventive

A beaver will make a dam (or Lodge) out of any material he finds. Endlessly resourceful, Beaverish Structures can be made of sugar cubes stolen from Oxford Coffee Bars, or the detritus of a cream tea consumed in the coffee shop of the Natural History Museum in London.
























Birds Suffer From Flatulence
























The Head Of Andy Warhol Is Preserved For All Eternity In The Pitt-Rivers Museum In Oxford


























Michael Ball Is Still A Bit Of A Knobber

I can't hate him, because I don't think he's essentially evil (unlike, for example, Paul McKenna PhD or Sir Cliff of the Richard), but every time I see him I remember what Knobberdom looks like.








May 2007 be the year in which I learn from experience: you can shrink the head of an artist; animals and birds do things you would not expect; Ball is a bit of a knobber; New Year Resolutions are a waste of time; strange and glorious things happen when you do not expect them; the people that you love are worth looking after. Seems straightforward enough to me.