Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Aerobatic Snowmen

If you're allergic to Aled Jones singing "Walking in the Air", then don't click play.

I like it.

From Raymond Brigg's "The Snowman"

6 comments:

Anonymous11 December 2011 at 12:30
Charming.
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A.11 December 2011 at 13:23
Aled Jones has certainly changed. Inevitable I suppose.

Is it not Raymond Briggs?
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soubriquet11 December 2011 at 14:15
A:That's what I said, innit?

Okay. Busted. I admit to being a bit slapdash and changing it just now.
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soubriquet11 December 2011 at 14:16
Charming? Why, it's magnificent....
I want to know why the kid doesn't freeze to death and plummet to his doom like a frozen Icarus.
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Adullamite12 December 2011 at 01:53
I didn't click, I didn't have my shotgun with me......
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gz13 December 2011 at 02:30
:-)
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