Charlie, 5 friends and family enjoy a birthday curry at the Bengal Spice Restaurant in Catterick.
Photo set here
It’s Charlie’s 9th Birthday today (9 – really… 9!!!)
He has some friends coming round to watch a DVD this afternoon and then off for a curry at a local restaurant.
He’s making great progress with his new Lego Star Wars Clone Turbo Tank (only 135 pages in the instruction manual!)
More photos later…
A trip to see the Farndale Daffodils 12/04/11.
Grandad Bill and Joan visiting for the week so a family trip out in the bus with Granny Pam & Grumps too.
Link to photo set here.
Farndale Daffodils – North York Moors National Park
Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen on DID this morning – what a guy!
BBC – Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Martin Sheen.
Also the BBC recently made the entire DID archive available (righteous!) as podcasts.
Find every castaway from 1942 to the present. Listen to more than 500 programmes
ATT-Paraguay-Iguana
This artist has made some amazing art for an AT&T campaign.
Originals here.
Thanks Dave Anderson for the tip.
TMWFTE Poster
This poster from the 1976 Nic Roeg film The Man Who Fell To Earth – starring Bowie as an “extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet” – looks incredibly glamorous today .
What must it have been like back in mid 70s London?
Answer: Like an alien had arrived!
Click through to see more great images – BowieNet News
✒More on Spike Milligan. Jim McLean emails: “I was in Spike’s office in the mid- 60s with Dominic Behan. Someone in the office asked him what was the population of London. Spike opened the window, looked out and started counting, ‘one, two, three …’”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/mar/19/simon-hoggarts-week-japan
Quentin Blake illustration (you can buy a print - click through)
I’m going in to Charlie’s school this afternoon to read a to some kids to help celebrate World Book Day.
I’m going to read from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – hopefully have time to get to the finding of the Golden Ticket.
Apparently the official name for this day is: “World Book and Copyright Day” – doesn’t have quite the same cosy feeling put like that, does it?
Charlie's new cast
Charlie had his “above the elbow” cast removed today – however the doctor says he must have a new one (below elbow) for two more weeks… (then no contact sports for 4 more weeks).
He chose a very nice blue colour this time and he’s being very brave 
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