English Yokel

A bit less serious, while I try pictures

Yokel has been having a look at his blog so far, and concluded that it has a lot of words in it. Yes, that is what blogs are supposed to have. Some have many more words than this one.

But the best ones have some pictures as well! So you will have to put up with an attempt to learn "doing pictures" on this system. What pictures to choose? Well, to practice with, I wanted something a little bit less than deadly serious. There have been a couple of juxtapositions that caused a sly smile to creep across my lips earlier today, so here they are.

The first is from the front page of the on-line Grauniad (Guardian).

It has changed several times now, in fact it had changed within 10 minutes of my grabbing the base image, so maybe the sub editor had received his first caffeine infusion of the day and realised. My amusement was how it is OK for the indigenous peoples of South and Central America to "fight back" against their former colonial masters, but at the same time how it is essential that England (and the rest of Europe) submit to their new masters.

And then a quick look at This is London, the online version of the Evening Standard, brought me this.

Here the sub-heading of the entertainment guide was over a news article about the trial of a Jihadi who was just entertaining, or so he said. This links to the full article, so you can read it all yourself, if you have a mind to.

After all that sitting and thinking, I am certain it is time for me to just sit a while!