And #42 following up before I knew it...

The 42nd Red Ensign Standard is at Rootleweb following up on my version from last week (which damn well put me out of the blogging mood for the last two weeks!)

Red Ensign Standard #40

Chris Taylor's got it this time and does a bang-up job.

Red Ensign 40

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Yes I'm still alive. I must write more to get more than the "Honourable Mention" entries that I've received in the last two Standards...

Alive!

The blog is alive after an upgrade to Expression Engine 1.3.1 that took some detours into sql database purgatory - everything is back where I left it, and looking like it should.

Whew! That's a relief.

Standard XIX

Our newest Member, Sue, has hoisted the Ensign high this week at Turning 30 and a half.

Not like there wasn't anything to talk about in the last two weeks, hmmm?

Red Ensign Standard XVII

is at my darling Rue's this time.

I'm very proud of the job she's done breathing new life into an old format...

Red Ensign Standard XVI

is at The Phantom Observer this time round. Some excellent posts from the ever increasing blogroll...

Male Objectification Week

Just to show that he's an equal opportunity cheese/beef connoisseur, our fearless Red Ensign Brigade leader, Ghost of a Flea has been running very manly man shots this week.








I'm thinking that the last manly man has to be Bruce Campbell, he of the stalwart chin and cheeseball one liner...







Remember I said it first here, and as Ash would say in Army of Darkness: "Gimme some Sugar, Baby!"

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Then again, he could be swerving us with another brit, like David Brent from "The Office"

Ice Cream Time

In support of the Flea I have decided that there needs to be more ice cream on this blog. I therefore present to you Miss Angelina Jolie, one of my favourites, as well as my wife's, although I don't think we like her in the same way...Or do we?

Most recently seen on the screen as Alexander the Great's Mother (!?!), Angelina strikes me as the kind of girl that can drink you under the table while simultaneously breaking your heart into little itty-bitty pieces. All the while proving how much smarter she is than you...

To the humourless blogger who suggested that Flea stop posting pictures of beautiful women on his blog - well, any defiant four letter word you want to pick will do. To suggest content is one thing; to engage in personal attacks is another.

To also equate the appreciation of beautiful women with pornography says more about you than it does about him.






UPDATE 12:47AM - Well obviously I'm not going to draw any anti-sexist ire by being oh so respectful of my subject matter...

Red Ensign #9

is up at Dust My Broom this week. I don't know how anyone is going to keep up with all the reading if the number of blogs continue to increase as fast as they have...

Red Ensign 8

The newest Red Ensign Standard is up at bound by gravity. Go check it out.

I'd like to take credit for the well-ensconced tradition of actually stating why one flies the Red Ensign. The only reason that I did it originally was to avoid confusion: what the hell was a "kraut" themed blog doing flying the flag of one of the nations that were on the opposite side of World Wars 1 and 2? But I think the idea has caught on, and I'm very impressed by the differing reasons that are cited each and every edition. I hope the tradition is continued.