Not quite sure about

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

On the 8th of May I invited you all to guess why I had bought some coathangers while I was in Kerala. There were some wonderful suggestions and but no-one was gross enough to fathom the correct answer.

The best incorrect suggestions were from and . Consolation beers or equivalents will be yours whenever I see you next. Meanwhile, the actual answer is here.

What is this doing on sale anywhere? Surely it’s banned, especially in Scotland?

My photos from February, March and April of this year are currently uploading to here. Constructively critical feedback would be welcome.

The Virgin train I’m on just now (17.52 from Edinburgh to Birmingham) has Fairtrade tea and coffee.

The train’s kettle is buggered so I can’t have any.

Update: The situation got sillier later when my train was delayed by an hour at Preston. An earlier train had hit a cow on the tracks. No-one thought to invite passengers to the ensuing barbeque.

My ecosse.net account appears to be down and I’m unable to contact their tech support to find out how long until this is corrected.

So please contact me via My_First_Name.My_Surname@mac.com – I’ll let you all know when ecosse.net’s up again.

Ecosse.net appears to be playing the game again. So feel free to get at me via the normal address.

I’ve had some issues with them as webhosts. Can anyone recommend a different **FREE** webhost? Or am I just plain greedy?

A phenomenon I’ve heard of before has just happened to me. A PFO email I received today said

Unfortunately it appears that you are a little too experienced for this role…

Duh, doesn’t that mean I am far and away good enough to do this job and so am an excellent candidate? Why are they annoying me and depriving themselves the chance of hiring someone who is very good at what they want? They’ve shot themselves in the foot and me in the, well, somewhere else with the same bullet. The only good thing I can see about this PFO is that they emailed it, thus avoiding delay and dead trees.

Still, other prospects are arising so maybe it’s a blessing in disguise. Also, compared to some things that dear friends are going through right now, I have nothing to complain about.

While perusing vacancies at my local JobCentre, I saw a one that made me laugh out loud and ask the staff if the advert was a practical joke.

An organisation was looking for a GANGA PERSON and willing to pay them £14 per hour. Was this organisation intending to pay more than I had earned per hour for someone to smoke weed? Alternatively, could I get rich imitating the holiest river in Hinduism?

Unfortunately not. ‘GANGA’ was a typo for ‘GANGER’, i.e. a team leader, managing a large team of ground workers on a big civil engineering project.

I believe I provided the JC staff with some amusement on a dreich Friday in what can be an utterly thankless job.