I think a rainbow has to count as amazing, but so too do thunder clouds and lightning. I used to live in Stuttgart, my flat was high up on one of the hills overlooking the city and I have a vivid memory of watching a dramatic thunder storm pass over the city, lightning striking down [...]
Maybe it is just me… Jax doesn’t think it is at all odd, anyway.
Crookes Radiometer Never have quite “got” this improbable little thing. Pretty though, I used to have one on my bedroom windowsill when I was at school, used to go mad in direct sunlight.
Newton’s Cradle No matter how often I see one of these, they still fascinate me.
They really, really don’t get it.
One of the crassest and most totally idiotic examples of mindless web design that I have ever seen.
http://www.co-op.ac.uk/
A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not” BBC
I have just got back from watching the Tinsley Towers, the two large cooling towers by the side of the elevated section of the M1 in Sheffield, being demolished.
Tinsley Towers 3am
No Tinsley Towers 3:01am
The first time I have been to see a demolition. Quite extraordinary.
I was just looking through the Beans Flickr. I found a picture of a woman tied to a dog.
Caption Submissions in a comments box please
A couple of posts elsewhere have made me think of some things which I missed, when I had the chance - that is to say, places I didn’t visit, things I didn’t do, when I lived right next to them.
These include:
Living 4 miles from Sutton Hoo and never going to see it.
Living right next to [...]
Jax: “Small, I can’t look up the shop online, not all shops are online.”
Just wonder when the first parent had to explain that.
Took the Smalls to meet up with Jax and batch of schoolfriends at the cinema yesterday. Whilst hanging around waiting, I added to my Geograph collection, had an overpriced Starbucks coffee and browsed around Borders shop.
I love maps, new, old, doesn’t matter, they fascinate me. I hadn’t really spent any time looking at Cassini maps [...]
Well there was more wind than flood, but “After The Wind” didn’t seem like such a good title.
Still the weekend was fun, even if the camping left something to be desired.
I must admit, I am disappointed that our tent (Vango Venture 500), allegedly (I wasn’t there to see it) failed to stand up to the [...]
But the best bit is the (fictitious?) organisation who have supposedly published the poster. “Acadamy Of Linguistic Awarness”. Oh dear.
Her first love.
Harry was Big’s first baby doll, she chose him herself from the shop, when she was barely over a year old.
Now, heartless, fickle hussy that she is, poor Harry sobs silently to himself, neglected, forgotten, on a shelf at our old house.
Oliver Stone’s film W. is currently in post-production.
Should be fun:
George Bush
Laura Bush
Condoleeza Rice
General Colin Powell
Saddam Hussein
Tony Blair (and presumably that must be Cherie? …. no, that is Jessica Alba, Cherie is the Invisible Woman)
W (imdb)
…. Indeed, if Labour’s present financial straits do lead it (as some predict) to seek a limited liability corporate structure, there would be a case for the cash-rich (but in inner-city patches of Britain, votes-poor) Conservative Party to stage a hostile bid - or to buy Labour from the Administrator, who would presumably be obliged [...]
Many people don’t realise that there are many phone providers offering cheaper calls to standard telephone numbers (those beginning with 01 or 02), which don’t apply to 0844, 0845, 0870 or 0871 telephone numbers. … you can reduce your call cost on standard telephone numbers to as little as 3p fixed cost (regardless of duration), [...]
Made me laugh.
Each week two of the advertising industry’s finest agencies are pitted against each other and challenged with selling the unsellable.
…
Which anti-tourism campaign ad do you think will work better? The Pitch
Today, Big went off with a little friend to Manor Heath Park to do the usual running round in circles, with a bit of making stuff thrown in.
So, I took Small to Castle Hill. If you have been to Huddersfield, you have almost certainly seen it. There is a tower on top, erected for [...]
No idea what the red thing is, but I suspect by now, it is no more.
The two ants were determined to take it home with them….. “Mum, look what we found!”