webcam

i've got one, it works. now I can monitor my cat's movements during the day....

fab

shame on me

i went to a recruitment fair at tidworth army camp today. worth the visit. only bad bit of the day was arriving at the camp i had my car searched. that would have been fine had they not wanted to check under the bonnet of my car. my car that I've had for 2 months and never looked under the bonnet. and the lever is not in the normal place. oh no, that would be too easy. Ford prefer to make it much more fun than that and hide it under the badge on the bonnet. So after a very embarassing pause where the girl with a gun stood patiently by, I tried to surruptitiously read the owners manual and found the answer. oh the shame....

charity

Si's comment prompted me to set up this site

isn't it great when the internet actually does something worthwhile. well, if you can call pimping out a 4 ft rooster for cash worthwhile....

3 weeks and 4 days

countdown to holidays... don'tcha just love'em

the charity chicken plan

I have come up with the answer to my chicken dilemma. It's based on the following:

1 - I need to use it to raise some cash for cancer research as this was the reason it was given to mum.
2 - people like the chicken but they don't want it for themselves (bit like my view on kids!)
3 - therefore people won't pay to have the chicken
4 - but people may pay to get rid of the chicken....
5 - So......

I am going to pass on the chicken to someone, and pay £5.00 to charity for the pleasure of doing so - and ask the new owners to do the same. I shall print off instructions to go around his neck so that future owners know their responsibilities.

1 -you must not keep the chicken for more than 1 month
2 - when passing the chicken on you must take a photo of the new owner and add it to the charitychicken Flickr page!
3 - you pay cancer research £5 for the pleasure of getting rid, and seeing the faces of the people you pass it on to! (I shall leave it up to people how they do this)

lets see if this works.... beware future chicken owners, we're coming to get you!

seems like the haigh holiday curse has hit again, with Thailand suffering a coup(somewhat ordered maybe but still a coup). hopefully things will have progressed by the time we go in 3 and a half weeks time, and it seems that having your photo taking with a smiling soldier is the done thing. It also seems ironic that to help quell any uprising they took all the TV channels offline and played continuous footage of the royal family. in this country that would be the way to start an uprising. cna you imagine replacing coronation street with footage of the queen and prince charles? there's be rioting on the streets within minutes.

second thought of the day is to do with the film we went to see last night. The Children of Men. bloody marvellous and I highly recommend it. Story is good, acting excellent (good old Michale Caine does old hippy so well!) but once of the diconcerting things was how they captured the "future" really well. it was the same but different. such similarities to now that it seemed so scarily possible, as opposed to many other films set in the future where you can comfort yourself that it's so different it'll never happen, this really looked possible, and very disturbingly so. go see....

excellent and inspired music video here

great photos in the guardian website here

Well the beetroot culinary experience proved positive. In addition to the creation of a pink kitchen the actual cake itself was damn impressive. It tastes really quite good but, well, beetrooty as well in a weird kind of way. I sent Paul to work with some in a little Tupperware pot. He’s now contractually obliged to appreciate my cooking so hopefully he won’t have chucked it over the fence on the way to work, liked I used to do with my sandwiches on the way to school all those years ago.
in response to Clr's comment I was trying to find something interesting to do with the beetroot whcih came in my vedge box. I had intended to do exactly as suggested and smother it in butter icing but ni fact it's damn nice jsut on it's own. tastes a lot like tea cake. yum

I haven’t written yet about our new TV viewing experience. We have become even more tecchie and purchased a PVR. As the reviews say “this will change your life”. Possibly not my life but certainly my TV viewing habits. No longer am I forced to watch Hollyoaks simply because it was the only thing on when I have made my tea and sat down with a desire to watch something while I eat it. NOW I can increase my choice massively by recording onto the hard disk SOOOOO many possibilities, that I am spoilt for choice! For the uninitiated it’s Sky+ without the subscription…..
Only thing is Paul and I are more interesting the endless recording possibilities rather than actually viewing. It’s a bit like me reading the TV guide so I know what’s on but never actually watching anything. But at least we now have lots of films to watch should we fee the urge. Oohh technology eh, in’t it ace.

domestic goddess....

i'm cooking beetroot cake. the kitchen looks like the set of Sweeny Todd.

lakes

got there late on friday, 10.15pm to be precise. it's a long way up north! we had the tent up, lilo pumped and stuff sorted in 15 mins and made it in plenty of time for last orders at the bar. stayed in a lovely campsite with fantastic views, shame about the showers but who cares about hygiene eh. we were so lucky with the weather, it was sunny the whole time. walked a bit, ate a bit, drank a lot and generally had a good time.

Chicken (not so) little

we had a 4ft chicken in the house. Someone gave it to mum to sell on a stall for cancer research. my dad deposited it at my house. I need ideas on how to use it to raise lots of cash. suggestions welcome.

wahey!!

I did this 5K this morning with Emma and Karen. Brilliant weather and a really great event. Managed to run it in just under 34 minutes which was a massive improvement on the race for life, even though the run had a few more inclines than last time. I didn't even stop once so I am well chuffed with myself. came back, wandered down to staverton to see some aeroplanes with dad, came home fell on sofa and then did gardening. All in all an eventful and and worthwhile day. All I need now is a sports massage.....