Those of you (like me) who flit between web pages, snatching a few words from each – this review site may be up your street. It’s a review site where visitors add content. Nothing groundbreaking there, but the rules are “just 10 words, no more, no less”.
EG – (I’m quite proud of this one.. )
Yorkshire
“Gods Own Country” boasting unsurpassable history, scenery people and puddings.
Check it out : http://thetenwordreview.com/
Funny old day yesterday. The fish tank fell down in the bathroom. For years the trusty shelf that I made held fast. We had a professional job done on getting a nice shelf put up for my biorb tank, which unfortunately collapsed. The new fish (as yet to be photographed) didn’t make it, Gary the snail as well as Marvin the sucky fish also didn’t make it. Fiona is currently hanging tough in her new tank. A bit battered and bruised but I think she may pull through.
On a good note, yesterday Kath P (One of Eirene’s longest serving friends (better than putting ‘oldest’ friend I thought) has had a baby Girl. Isobel. £6 odd, 4 weeks prem. All healthy and happy.
I’m off to town now to look at some new clothes for my trip later this week.
I seem to have developed a liking for books set (wholly, or in part) in India. Perhaps it’s the incredible diversity of the place where it’s culture, it’s people and religions saturate and permeate each other like no other place on Earth.
Some of the notable titles on my ‘India List’ would be
And now to add to my list “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistery. A fast paced novel that spans generations of Indian caste history coming up to the 1970′s during India’s “State of Emergency”. The book creates such believable characters, of which the four main characters cover so much ground the book seems to have a job fitting it all in. A delve into the good and evil of India (and humanity, which India is such an incredible representation of) . From the crisp clean hill stations in the north to the squalid rat infested jhopadi slums of the cities where at times you can almost smell the spices as the author describes a street scene. An educational novel from one of humanities cornerstones. A true masterpiece.
What a busy time I’m having at the moment. It’s all go. I’m very excited about a free trip I’ve blagged to Miami and Mexico next week. BA Club Class flights (bed on aeroplane!) 5 star resort, VIP type sketch. Could work out to be quite a big slice of fun. On top of heavy work and life admin tasks that seem to be in abundance at the moment, I’ve got an adventure to get excited about and plan (hard life eh!). I’ve not done that much in the way of documenting my day to day life for some time now so hopefully this trip will get me back on track.
Been doing lots of geocaching and stuff of a weekend. Bought some ace new 4wd Matt boots. Asolo Flame GTX is their rather ott naming convention, but after reading reviews from their predecessors (the ‘Fugitive’ GTX) they seemed like the ones – getting super high scores and rave reviews. Finding them cheaper online than anywhere else, I did the cheeky trick of going into Cotswold’s and trying them on, getting my feet measured up, chatting about suitability for my needs etc. Then guilt ridden, when the chap said he couldn’t budge on price I left them and chose the nearly £30 cheaper online for the same product model. I’ve not been disappointed so far. Not done a proper hike in them with Sophie on my back but the little bimble we did told me that I’d made a good choice!
Also been reading stacks. Finished a biog called “Stuart, a life backwards” which was quite a fascinating read about a ‘chaotic homeless’ person like no other. Reading about some of the injustice on some of the people who were trying to look after them was quite eye opening. The author really got into the guys head. Quite interesting – especially for anyone who’s interested in ‘Care’.
I’m going to do a separate blog on the book I’ve just finished though – it was quite special story.
Social networking is a funny thing isn’t it? First (with the wave of the new definition at least) there was myspace which many (including myself) got bored with rather quickly what with the naff scripting and vampire biting nonsense.
Flickr came along and with it, a vaccume was filled with it’s incredible offerings and functionality. I got into flickr, which I still percieve to be th best on the market as it’s got a function rather than just to be a ‘social network’ (which reminds me – time to blat up a backlog of photos.. )
Facebook was the next big one – I was quite suprised that it snowballed into ‘the big one’ Overtaking myspace – I was suprised the whole world jumped ship. I’ve noticed that Facebook has changed recently. For a while now (after initial set-up, peaked interest, ebbed interest) I’d been bored of it but now, quite liking it again – thanks to the new layout whith it’s segmented notifications.
I’m currently prefering the simplicity of twitter. It strips out all the guff and lets you get on with social networking freeing up time to get on with the real world. It’s the one that takes the least time and does the most communication. Twitter’s ability to be in several places at the same time is interesting – I can text / web update and it appears on my facebook, my blog my twittersphere and (unfortunately not available in the UK anymore) as text messages to my US followers. It has detracted from the longer stream of conciousness though that has been the documenting force of my life (this blog) for the last 7 years now. The new stream of information from these quarters is more sporadic. Anyhoo – I’m off to network socially for a while. Yea.
You Got Nothing Coming, Notes from a prison fish
