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 
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
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.
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