Garrulus Grommeler

Added links to more destinations in my ever-growing list of links deep down below at the bottom of this blog page. Added links to . . . Belgium (not been there . . . yet) Denmark (not been there . . . yet) England (lived there for about 3½ years, when I was a teenager; lived in the village of Shenington, and later in Bloxham; this was during my high school years) Guam (been there; was a stop-over when I moved to Okinawa and again when I moved to Thailand) Japan (lived there for about 3½ years, when I was very young; lived on the island of Okinawa; went to kindergarten there, in fact) Philippines (been there; was a stop-over on the return trip from Thailand) Poland (not been there; have had several friends over the years from there; currently have one friend who lives there, in Bialystok ; good reason to go visit, if you ask me) Scotland (been there; visited when I lived in England) Sweden (not been there; for some reaso...

I've renamed most of the various lists of links found at the bottom of this blog page. Garrulus' Travels — A half-assed attempt at a play on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels . For those who know of my penchant for grammatical correctness (or at least my attempts to be grammatically correct), I use Garrulus' instead of Garrulus's because: 1) Garrulus is Latin, and 2) it's ancient. In fact, it is the Latin form of "garrulous," but I don't use it in the sense of that word's definition ( excessively or tiresomely talkative ). It's meant to be a play on my first name. Saith Strunk and White : 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's . Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names [ending] in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. Garrulus may not end in -es or -is, but since it is ancient and since it is deliberately being misu...