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Happy Birthday Charlie!

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

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…

Farndale Daffodils

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

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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.
Farndale Daffodils – North York Moors National Park
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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

http://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/farndale-daffodils

Desert Island Discs: Martin Sheen

Friday, April 8th, 2011
Martin Sheen

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

Explore the archive

Amazing “Hand and Body Art”

Thursday, April 7th, 2011
ATT-Paraguay-Iguana

ATT-Paraguay-Iguana

This artist has made some amazing art for an AT&T campaign.

Originals here.

Thanks Dave Anderson for the tip.

1976 Posters for The Man Who Fell To Earth Implausibly Glamorous!

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
TMWFTE Poster

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

Lovely Spike Milligan anecdote.

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

✒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

World Book Day

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Quentin Blake ilustration

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?

Lovely retro USB MIX TAPE

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Nice idea… (via The Reg: Geeky gifts for Valentine’s Day)

See: Suck UK

Charlie’s Broken Arm…: New Pots for Old

Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Charlies new cast

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 :-)

“…it’s turtles all the way down!”

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Today’s Dilbert referenced the quote: “it’s turtles all the way down!” which I couldn’t remember the origin of.

Dilbert Feb 7th 2011

Dilbert Feb 7th 2011

Wikipedia says:

The most widely known version appears in Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts:

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever”, said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!”[1]

The origins of the turtle story are uncertain.

The quote makes me smile, the story enhances it.