Bang Bang, you shot me down

Bang bang that awful sound! Well i don't think i shall be posting photos again for quite a while.
Anyway, to answer all questions, i am not a nudist, and i was wearing clothes, however i had just washed my hair and hadn't put a top on yet, because it was downstairs waiting to be ironed (by me). So... congratulations to all the grand national winners (namely the bookies) and to all those who are now carrying a slightly lighter burden of money in their wallet-you see there is always an upside.

I was trying to construct my own grand national. Having decided wombles and pigeons would be too hard i turned to ants. However bad weather meant i had to abandon my search for ants in the garden. Alas there was no mini grand national. Maybe next year.

Today i went on a biiiig trip into town with Katherine and didn't really buy much at all. Then i settled down all by my bill to watch tv tonight. Everyone else is away or out. I did get to see Just Married though. Admittedly there have been greater films, but for some light entertainment it's not bad-and it has got a nice girly happy ending-not sure whether that's good or bad!

So yes, all in all a very uneventful day. Ooh i watched a bit of scooby doo too, which im sure andy would be proud of, had he not disappeared off the face of the Earth for the last week. I fear he may actually be busy!! Right, advanced warning:i shall not be blogging 2moro, due to the fact that i shall be in Shefilled-with-excitement for the night. Wahooo out of the house for a while.
Signing off

Thought for the Day: You never see the bad times in photo albums, yet its those times that take you from one happy photo to the next. They're the times that really matter in life.

Another early blog

Despite it being apparent that it is only me who models my haircuts in such a way i opted for a short hair cut. Although at peoples protest, it is not that short. However this could mean i have to have it cut again!! Disaster!

Right well im off to Katherine's hence im posting early. She doesn't really like short hair on me, so lets hope it aint too short! Besides its my hair. I haven't got very much work done today. Possible because i spent a lot of the day watching my fantastic battricks cricket team win their first game under my management. Twas very exciting-so andy,if you reappear before sunday-BE WARNED (and very scared!)

Well thats all i will say today-leaving it short and sweet. Spot the difference-prize for the first correct answer sent to me on the back of a postcard.

Thought for the Day: A wiseman listens while the fool talks.

61-hooray a prime number

Maybe its just me that gets excited about prime numbers. I was extremely excited when i realised that todays post was prime. Well so was 59..but i think we have to wait until 67 for our next...

Anyway today i worked for about 3 or 4 hours non-stop. i didn't know i had it in me! So that under my belt-well not actually under my belt! I am planning another day of work tomorrow. The big event of tomorrow is...my haircut! i will post before/after photos for you. It will be too short, but it has to be slightly to short, so it reaches its optimum half way between this and the next haircut. Hencing having an average of perfect length! Apparently i am the only one who plans my haircuts in such ways! Oh well.

Look here is a graph of my haircuts. I have modelled it as an x^3 graph merely for the illustration with the added factor of 4, as my haircut is usually optimum 4 weeks after a hair cut.

You will observe that if i left my hair for ages, it would reach infinite awfulness. Oh and by the way, values below x=0 should be ignored. Ahh the joys of mathematical software!

Anyway, i appear to have nothing else to say, so i will leave you with a guest quote, from the lovely world of linguists! Guess who...

Thought for the Day: Does a tonne of feathers really weigh the same as a tonne of lead??

All abooaarrrd!

Alas, again this day has flown by, and now all that i can look forward to is a thursday. Oh look a whole sentence with no 'e'. Just goes to show kids...no-one needs drugs!

Today i got up late and hence as happens on all major UK lines, every arrival after that time was consequently late. Lunch came in at 4.00, and tea at 7.00, which according to the tannoy, was only 1hr late, so it must have made up some time somewhere between Leeds and Harrogate. After the hassle of such lateness, it is a relief to be settling down to the far more familiar routine of the night train, on its 3 hr trip to slumberland (not the shop), via MSN and the bathroom.

I went to see Alien autopsy tonight, which was actually quite good-though no pigeons which is always a letdown. I managed to cover the world in a big picture of a pigeon earlier using google earth. Now that was fun! Imagine a pigeon the size of the Earth!

Anyway, a week to my birthday and the anti excitement is setting in. Hurrah!

Thought for the Day: Today is a fatboy slim song, thats why they call it the 'Right here, right now'

A nice happy blog to reflect a nice happy person

Im feeling in a good mood today! Hurrah! ooh err that sounds a bit rah. I think sometimes we are a bit to eager to share our sorrow, or depression but not always happiness. Maybe it's because unhappy things make a better story. Take the news for example...not much happy stuff going on...anyways, so i gonna share the love a bit today-literally. I mean what kinda rubbish word is LOVE. Did you know that in Sanskrit there are 96 words for love, and 83 in ancient persian-for today however i am turning greek. So what have we got...

Eros-plain and simple. Sexual attraction and lust. (Hence erotic)
Storge- This is natural affection, like parent to child.
Philia-This is liking an object, or mild brotherly love.
Agape-This is the daddy of all loves. Meaning unconditional, compassionate, love (and very strong friendship)

You see...how much more descriptive are they. Now we can all talk about love without getting confused about sexual feelings towards chocolate, or our girlfriends being our mothers etc etc.
And it even gives guys a chance to talk about it without sounding unmanly! Now i shall leave you with an interesting thought about love, that i admittedly nicked from somewhere quite famous!

Thought for the Day: Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Tell me why, i dont like mondays

I don't quite want to shoot the whole day down. In fact mondays aren't that bad-they're just nothing special.

I got up in the afternoon today, despite waking up at 9.00am. I was busy before i got up, doing various little things for people. Then i got up, had breakfast and worked most of the day! All in all a quite productive day. So what has been going through my mind today...

Well theres the issue of global warming i guess. The independent carries on its inspirational episode of about 7 weeks of non stop opinion on global warming. What strikes me most is peoples attitude. Everyone seems to think that just switching to millions and millions of windfarms and solar panels will do the trick. The fact is, we are not just looking at an energy switch, but an energy cutdown. If only people stopped leaving lights on, started walking, stopped being wasteful, started being thoughtful then we might end our period of massive energy consumption. Or for example....stop cheap flights! Im gonna stop there before i become very unpopular, but why oh why oh why are they effectively subsidised at the environments cost?

Thought for the Day: The world is a human pyramid,if the rich man becomes too heavy, the poor man collapses, and look who falls the furthest

We all know Durham would have thrashed Oxford

Let's face it. However much they may gloat-we all know that had durham been in the boat race, we would have thrashed them by miles. I guess that's why they never let us join their smelly little boat race.

In all honesty i didn't actually watch the boat race. I couldn't really be bothered. I found some drying paint instead. What i did do today is i guess what i should be talking about. Well formalitites aside, there was a short power cut this evening which was very exciting. It's crazy how much we take electricity for granted these days, and yet go back only 2 or 3 generations, and people would go to bed by candlelight. Its weird how fast things have changed in our lifetime. The fact that technologies such as computers, music playing devices have changed so much just in these last 18 years. Anyway, if i say anymore i shall risk sounding very old!

So 2 weeks into the holidays and it seems a long time since i have been in Durham. A long time since i have sat doing nothing in our common room for hours on end just chatting. I suppose its good to go without (as mentioned previously) cos then you really appreciate everything. Maybe that will turn out to be the point of today's blog...who knows.

Looking forward to this week, i have lots and lots of work planned, as i have alot of catching up to do. I think i will also try and get out somewhere, and see more of my friends now they are all home. I can't bear to spend too much longer cooped up in my room. Talking of birds...(kind of) take a look at this! http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html hehe

Thought for the Day: What do you most take for granted? Hmmm...interesting one

Surprisingly Short Saturday

Hello happy people. I do not have much time so i will keep it brief tonight. Today i went to Katherines for the afternoon/evening which was brrilliant with extra ice. We watched the others, which is actually quite a good film, though not my preffered genre.

Tomorrow i aim to get lots of hardcore work done. I have had a work free few days so tomorrow its time to turn up the heat so to speak (not actually change the thermostat)

Thought for the Day: In a world of equilibrium, it follows that one mans success is always another mans failure

A brief history of mime

Just thought of a snappy title for a book if there are any budding 'History of Mime' writers out there. Alternatively you could right about crime, lime, grime, etc etc with the same effect.

Friday has been brillig and i must not gyre or gimble too long for i am hungry and the food is downstairs (hope all those jabberwocky fans are happy). I went into town today, in the sun, which was amazing. I guess sunshine makes you appreciate the world. Though i must confess myself to be a big fan of rain too. There's something amazing about the sound, sight and feel of rain-only heavy rain mind, none of this rubbish english drizzle

I watched 'The Island' this evening. If you haven't seen it: i wouldn't bother. With the technological status of a plough and the intruige of an empty museum, its only redeeming factor is its cheap action sequencing and sexual interest. I mean any film with Scarlett Johansen is sure to draw some crowds, however the plot is poor, the chase scenes are old, and the ideas are stolen. That said...if you want a half entertaining film, just to watch, i would actually recommend it!

Tomorrow i plan to have an early start and be busy all day!

Thought for the Day: Life is what happens while we are busy making plans

3 pints of beer or a pair of almost new trousers??

Yes i know i am a cheapskate but today i bought a pair of trousers (jeans) from a charity shop for £6. How amazing is that. i think we should all go to charity shops more often...buy with a conscience at the same time! By the way of course it would be the latter anyway because i am not drinking until the end of lent. Katherine came round after her work this morning just as i was waking up at 9.20. Katherine and i then went into town (shopping) where i got my jeans suprisingly...then Katherine and i were invited to lunch by the youthworker of our old church. So that was all good and i got a nice lunch (i get bored of making sandwiches) and then Katherine went off to work again at 3 and i returned to do some work and guide Man Utd even closer to the title on CM. So all in all it has beeen a reasonably exciting day-though not overstrenuous.

Have you ever wondered who invented the Ear? well wonder no more, it was the russian scientist Kolon, who also invented the sewing machine and hydrogen before the ear. His name was also used to describe punctuation and a part of the digestive system. Quite a remarkable guy-if you dont believe me, jus check wikopedia!

Thought for the Day: What if your eyes are on the back of your head and you were just assembled back to front?

There is no need to adjust your clocks

Do not fear, your clocks are not wrong, i have posted before 11pm. Actually as an aside, your clocks may be wrong. Firstly the batteries may have gone or something, or as i found out, along with emma, it may be that the blog has not updated your clock. I found it easiest just to pretend i was african, and now the time is right! yippee!

Today is to be named cooking day, or maybe baking day-in recognition of the fact that i will have baked twice in one day. That is quite a rareity for me you must understand. First i have made mince pies this afternoon, and then i am making a pud of some sort tonight. The mince pies turned out great...if you like bottomless mince pies. Most of them are alright, but in about half of them, i put slightly too much mincemeat in and they leaked down the sides and stuck to the tray, so only the tops came out afterwards. O dear oh dear-just was well Oli and Taj don't read this blog! In all fairness i can cook very well-im not quite as good with the baking side, but even so im not bad.

I have resigned myself to unemployment for four weeks now. Wahoooo! But oh no-no money.
Well my little minions, that is about all for today, so i leave you with words by W H Auden, as a lament to the Earth?!?

Thought for the Day: Sob heavy world, sob as you spin, mantled in mist, remote from the happy

Boredom sets in

Right...half an hour left, so id better write todays blog.
Today i got up nice and early so that i would be awake when waitrose calles to tell me whether i had the job or not. Well...i am still waiting, and to be honest, it seems rather late to me. Tch, supermarkets. So it looks like i am going to have less money and more dossing time, which could be good news for everyone perhaps steven spielberg.

Tomorrow i am baking! i was bought some bradny butter-my fav. so i am making some mince pies to go with it. I know its not very seasonal, but really who ever said mince pies were for Christmas time only? Well whoever it was must have been wrong!

In other news.....Aaaarrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Help me! I am going insane. I have to much to do in too little time and a doing not enough in the huge amounts of time i have to do nothing!

Thought for the Day: Boredom is merely defferred excitement or is it the other way round?

Wahooo over 50 posts and still going...

Yes, this post is the 51st of its kind, which i guess means we've overtaken letters of the alphabet and US presidents...next up...heinz varieties...only 7?!? to go? i think so anyway.

Today i got more shoes. This does not mean i have lots of money, rather that i owned no soes that kept water out before this week. Hence i decided i probably needed 2 good pairs of shoes. For some reason i always worry i sound like a girl when i talk about shoes. But..however i can assure you, despite worrying allegations, i have no little secret regarding my gender-I am most definitely male! there that ought to put an end to those rumours! lol

I went into waitrose today, and so they will be ringing me tomorrow to tell me whether they will employ me or not. I would like the money, but if they said no, it would be a handy excuse to do noting all holiday! Other than that i also watched the wallace and gromit film today for the first time-brilliant (with extra ice!)

Thought for the Day: Never eat shredded sheep

Personal rant-do not bother reading!

I do not have much to say today. I have grumbled about the hour loss, and besides going out for a meal, and then listening to the football there is nothing to report about today. So instead i shall briefly discuss a radio programme i heard last night about Norman Kember. I am afraid that i am slowly losing all faith in humanity. There were loads of people ringing in (some anti-religous) saying how stupid he was to be out there

The reality is that the war was illegal and immoral and that for my part i wish i had the guts to act on my beliefs more. All those who were against the war, and then suddenly when an OAP peacemaker is out in Iraq, he is being called reckless and stupid. Shouldn't we be encouraging people like him and helpign iraqis see that we are not behind what the government is doing and that we disagree with it? Hes on a peacemission, hes not a missionary converting people.

I guess that the sad fact is that we work on a majority system of government. For once i am inclined to agree with Oli, that a country where the right people were in charge would be far better than a country run by the majority-who are usually wrong.

Thought for the Day: Majority rule sucks!! lol

Sorry rant over!

i hate BST!

We're gonna lose an hour??? Where has it gone??? That is most careless, lets just hope we find it sometime-and quickly-it took until october last time...

I hate losing hours, its so inconvenient to my sleeping plans. I mean i wouldn't miss 2-3 in the afternoon. Personally i think that would be far better than depriving us of an hours sleep. I mean thats just mean!

Well the big news of today is that i too have experienced caramel shortbread this holiday. Only this was Bettys of Harrogates finest Millionaire shortbread and was half the size of Andy's and cost 3 times as much. Still i didn't buy it so the cost is of no concern to me! And it was very nice!
I also managed to start the dreaded W word today through some light reading. I hope to scale up to full time revision over the next few weeks. Other than that i have had a very average day. I could spend hours ranting about the cheats that call themselves footballers, but i realise that none of you would be remotely interested in that, so i will spare you! Katherine is back with no bones broken which is also very good! I will leave you in peace now. Tara

Thought for the Day: If you have any problems today do not fear...don't lose any sleep over them, BST does that for you...

And so the rain came...

garrrr shouldn't have mentioned the rain yesterday. With all predictability it has barely stopped raining all day today. Ah well, it didn't stop my adventure into town this afternoon. Admittedly i have had more exciting days in my life, but i did buy some new shoes which i think is quite exciting! No more wet feet for me.

This evening i watched Donnie Darko which is a fantastic film. Its the second time i have seen it fully and it is near the top of my list of favourite films. Along with the Truman Show!
It did mean i was all by myself all evening, but everyone else was out having a life. Maybe one day i'll get a life too.

So tomorrow being a saturday will really turn things upside down. im not quite sure why, but when your not at Uni, or even during school holidays, it was always saturdays that completely threw me-just never managed to quite get my head round them. Think its kinda the fact that no matter where i have been i have always had saturdays off, so to have every day off makes saturdays feel strange. Anyways i shall lave you now with another sentence of complete lack of insight

Thought for the Day: The past is the wall upon which we stand-Try and take parts of it out, and you crumble, spend too much time looking at it and you fall off

Its not raining...nor pouring and i can hear no snoring

Thursdays are usually rainy. However today broke the trend because it did not rain. I have not done anything of note today, except perhaps going to a concert tonight at my old school. It was a very high standard though it did mean i had to suffer the head teacher once again. And believe me, it can be difficult. Anyways music was reeeaallllly good and i feel all cultured now! I also got to see some of my friends again which was brilliant. Oops ice tray is empty-youll have to do without. Ok well i have big plans for tomorrow. im not sure what, but after so many days of simply sitting around it is in my mind inevitabel by the laws of probability that i am due a biiigggg day! so watch out world coz here i come! p.s happy birthday vicky! woooo 19 today. pps my alter ego still exists...he gets lonely...real lonely.

Thought for the Day: The most perfect objects in life only get there by a lot of reshaping

Escapism in action...

http://hgerfdthetransdimensional.blogspot.com/

Hello hello hello

Hoorah, hoorah to good weather! What a beautiful day today. I went for a morning stroll which i thoroughly enjoyed! I no some people dont enjoy solitude or relaxation-but they are right up my strreet (figuratively-they arent actualy at the end of the street on which i live).

Today if all goes well you will spot my alter ego in another dimension Hgerfd (which is pronounced Doo-saa-min in his language) has started a blog-i am translating it into english so you will be able to understand. So keep an eye out for that. I apologise that some words ma not translate. So..what have i done today-well i watched the commonwealth games diving:oh no sorry i mean i watched chelsea 'play' football. Which was depressing and really rather dull. i also tidied my room a little:yes i know this is a little extreme but hey!

So i think that is just about all today. The plans for tommorrow have not yet been drawn up at this very early hour. However an intelligent guess would be...nothing! I leave you with some words of wisdom i found in my room today that i wrote 6 years ago

Thought for the Day: Treasure moments, because you will not realise what they are worth until afterwards.

Piccies!!

Righty ho-following that awful post-i thought i ought to post some piccies to make you forget all about i-so here goes: