tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post6284972093910361796..comments2023-10-03T14:01:01.036+01:00Comments on One Small Step: This aint on party, this aint no disco, this aint no foolin' aroundOldmortalityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-4968175965065444422019-10-11T08:27:05.277+01:002019-10-11T08:27:05.277+01:00Love to read it,Waiting For More new Update and I ...Love to read it,Waiting For More new Update and I Already Read your Recent Post its Great Thanks. <a href="http://thepartyentertainment.com/" rel="nofollow">Event planner</a><br />yogihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244267942224949936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-17490085090464611652019-01-15T15:51:49.905+00:002019-01-15T15:51:49.905+00:00Sad to learn of his passing. A euphemism I think h...Sad to learn of his passing. A euphemism I think he'd have enjoyed. I've not been doing bloggy things for a few years so missed out on this tragic news. I never met, like many here, but always enjoyed his odd rants, humour and a taste in music that mostly mirrored my own. Thanks for the memory! And give 'em Hell, wherever you might now be.yeractualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13711767368876221729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-59753270735384892012018-03-19T02:40:35.177+00:002018-03-19T02:40:35.177+00:00Ah hell Dave . Keep on Ah hell Dave . Keep on Ruffinogoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714927259846949110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-29513756549169831972016-09-08T23:30:42.514+01:002016-09-08T23:30:42.514+01:00I thoroughly enjoyed OM's pieces. I never met ...I thoroughly enjoyed OM's pieces. I never met him, but he came across as a splendid man; funny, bright, with a magnificent taste in music, and a life that sounded like it had been lived to the maximum.<br /><br />I'll keep the link to his blog on my "Better places to visit" list as from time to time I'll nip over there to cheer myself up.<br /><br />My condolences to OM's family and friends.<br />Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-17374919743293191292016-09-08T23:24:25.597+01:002016-09-08T23:24:25.597+01:00Dave,
You are most welcome...
I appear to have g...Dave, <br />You are most welcome...<br /><br />I appear to have given him one last laugh although I rather assume it would be through a gritted mumble that I should always check my sisters facts....<br />I went back to you tube to discover my foxes pass (faux pas for the proper posh ones) - it would appear it was Todd Snider that sang the track!<br />My humble apologies with various expletives deleted...<br /><br />Daughter3 <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-11490403742685579252016-09-08T23:00:42.488+01:002016-09-08T23:00:42.488+01:00Many condolences on your loss. I never got to meet...Many condolences on your loss. I never got to meet OM in person - and therein lies my loss - I only knew him as an online presence. I wish I'd commented more, but I read plenty, smiled, laughed out loud sometimes, nodded in agreement regularly. <br /><br />I hope you don't mind if I borrow a phrase from OM's own final comment on this post - "a good guy in a world seemingly packed with wankers and arseholes". I shall leave the link to this blog on mine and click on it now and again; I hope it endures.<br /><br />DaveDave Bhttps://ossroad.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-10724747537377437842016-09-08T22:16:06.377+01:002016-09-08T22:16:06.377+01:00All,
Not being a blogger or as good a wordsmith ...All, <br /><br />Not being a blogger or as good a wordsmith as OM, I will try to do this justice. <br /><br />OM, or as my brother and sister call him, Dad, passed away on the 4th Aug. Deciding not to fester in a hospice, he gave out at home clutching a copy of Private Eye - for us, twas rather fitting!<br /><br />We didn't know about this blog and only found it after some digging - the printed poem was indeed on his wall which gave lead to this spot. It has been a tough read and I am not finished, but am grateful he had you all and an outlet.<br />Unfortunately 3 kids under 8 do not appreciate Boxing Day on the side of a hill with a trangia stove and a force 10 - cold tomato cuppa soups did not inspire his passion in us. <br /><br />He did however leave us with a weird and wonderful music collection - a passion for sure.... Only tempered by the teenage cry "who?". This would result in a tape, cd or in latter years you tube link to broaden our knowledge. <br />My IT skills are far from good so can only leave you with the title of a song he spoke of a lot in the last few weeks. He didn't say why this was in his mind but I am sure we can all imagine.... <br /><br />" play the train song" by Tom Snyder <br /><br />Mrs OM is off on her holiday as predicted so we must help her pack! <br /><br />One last step taken!! Xx <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-82172621730564022592016-09-07T22:45:46.411+01:002016-09-07T22:45:46.411+01:00Just checking in to say "hello".
Hope th...Just checking in to say "hello".<br />Hope this finds you okay, Sir.<br />All the best.Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-49956037034523046502016-07-30T14:35:56.095+01:002016-07-30T14:35:56.095+01:00Yes, Mike. One of the good days. After I had the p...Yes, Mike. One of the good days. After I had the pleasure of meeting you in that “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” moment at the bridge, and ticking off another” good guy met” in a world seemingly packed with wankers and arseholes, I had a relaxed stroll back through the Rothiemurchus forest. I watched the dragonflies on the lochan. I got a decent fish supper in Aviemore. I got the coach home. Thanks for being the focus for me doing it, seize the day indeed.<br />And thanks for being one of the early supporters of a blog that seemed a wee bit different. I just hope I don’t go before I finish my chews !<br />Oldmortalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-4978637989634049042016-07-29T20:34:51.703+01:002016-07-29T20:34:51.703+01:00If you forget yourself - as I often do - and sing ...If you forget yourself - as I often do - and sing out loud the line "Bareback ladies have fish", you don't half get some odd looks. People tend to gather up their children; and belongings.Davehttps://ossroad.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-30672568648524452172016-07-29T20:23:58.543+01:002016-07-29T20:23:58.543+01:00Thanks for that Ken. And for everything. Without t...Thanks for that Ken. And for everything. Without the likes of you and a few others, the blog would never have got off the ground. I miss the early Fat dog blog, which I described as hillwalking in the real world. Happy TrailsOldmortalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-89000285279774532932016-07-29T20:19:35.956+01:002016-07-29T20:19:35.956+01:00Thanks Dave. Forget the "better man" stu...Thanks Dave. Forget the "better man" stuff - we're all different and who knows how we are going to react to any future situation.<br />The King Crimson riff that sometimes comes back to me is 21st Century Schizoid Man. Very Assertive.Oldmortalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-273747663919964882016-07-29T19:27:05.316+01:002016-07-29T19:27:05.316+01:00I'm almost speechless - but I have to say that...I'm almost speechless - but I have to say that it was really nice; a privilege I should say, to meet you at Cairngorm footbridge a couple of years ago on my café akto jaunt - and sup/sip the rather lovely whisky you arrived with, although the dog didn't live long enough to enjoy all the chewsticks. I do know that you made a serious effort to get up to Aviemore and to walk in to wherever I was, and back again. And I was touched, although being a rufty-tufty Yorkshireman, all I could say about it was that it was "fair to middlin' and not so bad as you'd mither I suppose..." We have to grab the moments, innit??Mike Knipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12792636586674245725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-4673532016999649032016-07-29T14:40:10.013+01:002016-07-29T14:40:10.013+01:00Sorry to hear the news OM...I can only hope things...Sorry to hear the news OM...I can only hope things take the path of my hillwalking retirals...never ending. Kenhttp://wherethefatdogwalkz.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-55823676216292454002016-07-28T23:45:10.673+01:002016-07-28T23:45:10.673+01:00Non fui, fui, non sum, non curoNon fui, fui, non sum, non curoQDanThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07274667057351850895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-40268717648608740102016-07-28T21:03:40.187+01:002016-07-28T21:03:40.187+01:00Len is (always was) better than most at this sort ...Len is (always was) better than most at this sort of thing...<br /><br />Everybody knows that the dice are loaded<br />Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed<br />Everybody knows the war is over<br />Everybody knows the good guys lost<br />Everybody knows the fight was fixed<br />The poor stay poor, the rich get rich<br />That's how it goes<br />Everybody knows...<br /><br />Posting in the face of adversity: you're a better man than me. On the subject of music King Crimson's Cirkus popped into my head a few day's ago and seems to have lodged there has permanent earworm. Odd, considering I hadn't heard it for about thirty years.<br /><br />Who knows where the time goes, eh?<br /><br />I wasn't joking, by the way; you really are a better man than me.<br /><br />Dave<br /><br /><br /><br />Davehttps://ossroad.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-14841340041123408142016-07-28T18:43:09.337+01:002016-07-28T18:43:09.337+01:00The Internet is a wondrous thing which allows old ...The Internet is a wondrous thing which allows old men who have never met, but have led interesting lives, exchange Epicurean poetry.<br />Thanks, Danny. I've printed that and pinned it up over my desk.Oldmortalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-60104240138166648692016-07-28T18:39:20.541+01:002016-07-28T18:39:20.541+01:00That must have cost you a few bob ! the last time ...That must have cost you a few bob ! the last time I saw the Stones I think it cost me 10DM.<br />Having had a previously documented all- night head-to-head sesh with Charlie, and having wondered fro afar at the pharmaceutical experiment that is Keef, I must admit to a twinge of jealousy that these guys obviously have access to medical resources way beyond what's available on the NHSOldmortalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828967124865650752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-19071472469076561432016-07-28T12:22:52.404+01:002016-07-28T12:22:52.404+01:00I think I've been to three or four Rolling Sto...I think I've been to three or four Rolling Stones concerts, each time in the belief that this would be their last tour.<br />Please keep up this tradition Sir in the very best Keith Richards style.Alan Slomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966543499033330765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990723463374960425.post-54694473279887468352016-07-28T11:56:06.980+01:002016-07-28T11:56:06.980+01:00Titus Lucretius Carus (c.99-55 BC)
No single thin...Titus Lucretius Carus (c.99-55 BC)<br /><br />No single thing abides; but all things flow.<br />Fragment to fragment clings-the things thus grow<br />Until we know and name them. By degrees<br />They melt, and are no more the things we know.<br />Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift<br />I see the suns, I see the systems lift<br />Their forms; and even the systems and the suns<br />Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.<br />You too, oh earth-your empires, lands, and seas -<br />Least with your stars, of all the galaxies,<br />Globed from the drift like these, like these you too<br />Shalt go. You are going, hour by hour, like these.<br />Nothing abides. The seas in delicate haze<br />Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place;<br />And where they are, shall other seas in turn<br />Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays.<br />The seeds that once were we take flight and fly,<br />Winnowed to earth, or whirled along the sky,<br />Not lost but disunited. Life lives on.<br />It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die.<br />They go beyond recapture and recall,<br />Lost in the all-indissoluble All:-<br />Gone like the rainbow from the fountain's foam,<br />Gone like the spindrift shuddering down the squall.<br />Flakes of the water, on the waters cease!<br />Soul of the body, melt and sleep like these.<br />Atoms to atoms-weariness to rest -<br />Ashes to ashes-hopes and fears to peace!<br />O Science, lift aloud your voice that stills<br />The pulse of fear, and through the conscience thrills -<br />Thrills through the conscience with the news of peace -<br />How beautiful your feet are on the hills!QDanThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07274667057351850895noreply@blogger.com