Street Markets

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/street-markets-more-powerful-than-supermarkets-479248.html
http://www.whitecrossstreet.co.uk/
http://columbiaroad.info/flowermarket.html
http://columbiaroad.info/shops.html
http://www.newcoventgardenmarket.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Treasure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCcD0aqUgCo&feature=related

Outside a bonfire lights up the dusk and wood smoke fills the air

My son's been talking to me about enlightenment. im not really sure what he means, so been searching to find something to help me understand.. and found these. Maybe this opens a door a little. Some makes me feel a little uncomfortable but some imagine would make you feel very special

http://www.enlightenedhorsemanship.net/2009/12/50-ways-to-show-you-care-without-spending-a-dime/

http://tinybuddha.com/featured/10-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-giving-up-on-your-dream/

Open Source Code

Open source code and a link to a programme called Ldraw where you can build virtual Lego modals, render and make animations... anything is possible
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

Christmas foster homes for animals needed across London

http://www.rspca.org.uk/media/news/story/-/article/EM_FestiveFosterHomesNeededNov09

Selling Water by the River

This is part of something written by Nick Walser in an article called Selling Water by the River. Sounds wise to me.

" There is no perfect "You" running around in some elysian field somewhere, free of faults and worries. You are whole exactly where you stand now, you are absolutely sufficient for the task in hand"

"Everyone carries a shadow and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is" - Carl Gustav Jung.

sometimes, life is very strange

Kenny

http://www.kossan.se/roliga-filmer/vakna_husse.htm

Nightfall

Peas on Earth by Peter Adams

http://www.pbase.com/george_v/image/88567053

Bonfire Night

Masterchef Professional 2009 - The Final

in case you missed it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njklj/Masterchef_The_Professionals_Series_2_Episode_29/

Very very well done Team Brawn - World Champions

Well done Jenson - brilliant race

House of Flying Daggers - Echo Game

Just a very beautiful film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZxS0WqDk8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSS9zHcsECw&feature=related

Walk the talk

Walk and talk, focus on humanity, all that we have in common and to discuss openly, and with mutual respect, the areas where we may not agree.

http://www.walktalk.org.uk/#/events/4535353049
http://www.walk-the-talk.org.uk/

Filipino inmates and 'Black Eyed Peas'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMTDYtFJl8&feature=related

Apply for the GO Ingenuity Award

The GO Ingenuity Award is awarded to artists, inventors, and small business entrepreneurs to inspire the next generation of "makers." GO Campaign will award one-year, one-time fellowship grants to individual applicants who are eager to share their skills with marginalized youth in developing countries in ways that educate and inspire youth to harness their own ingenuity.

http://www.gocampaign.org/GIA/

Carl Larsson Garden Sundborn

http://www.clg.se/karin.aspx
http://www.clg.se/blomsterfonstret.aspx
http://www.dalarna.se/kulturidalarna/eng/clarsson.html

F1 Suzuka Circuit Japan

love this sport but wonder if older circuits like this one in Japan could be made safer - the gravel run off areas made bigger before 2010 and maybe roll back to a one hour qualifying session, less stress for the drivers so maybe less accidents - it is terrifying to see head on collisions into walls, dont want to watch drivers being smashed up

Elephant Painting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk&feature=related

William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rehi_7punQ0&feature=channel_page

Bump

Things that go 'bump' in the night
Should not really give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
That lets in the fear,
That, and the absence of light!

Spike Milligan

Gorillas in the Mist: Legendary Gorilla King Titus Dies

http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/21/gorillas-in-the-mist-legendary-gorilla-king-titus-dies/#more-4018

Lost Land of the Volcano

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m82h7

Make music for movies

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Music_in_film
http://www.filmmusic.net/
http://www.taxi.com/
http://www.versusmedia.com/

just a puffin doing nuffin

Barrichello, Button and Brawn team - well done

Feeling blue...

could protect you in a roundabout way,
slinking off, safer than challenging the big ape
but maybe for sake of dignity
it would be ok to step on his toes, and then run

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1116556/Feeling-blue-Stop-worrying--depression-good-say-scientists.html

Africa - The Lack of Rain Harvesting

An ancient and modern technology Rain Harvesting has the potential to provide a considerable portion of the African continent's water need's. Africa is not water scarce - the water crisis in Africa is more an economic problem from lack of investment....

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/09/rain-harvesting-and-lack-thereof.html

Stress Busting with Paul McKenna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGKA-fFXzs

Happy Landings :)

http://www.windowgallery.co.uk/dunn_painting.html?id=2

Sussex

http://www.eastbeachcafe.co.uk/index.html
http://www.sussexbythesea.co.uk/sussex-by-the-sea.asp?menu=0

High Wield

Still feeling bit of a zombie, cycled 33 kms from Ditchling up to Lindfield on the High Wield on Saturday
http://www.highweald.org/

Sunny and windy late summer afternoon..

my cats are running around in the wind, wish i could too

Formula 1 Telefonica Grand Prix of Europe

Good luck all the English teams, fingers (and toes) crossed

Dennis's Diary of Destruction and friends

http://dennisthevizsla.wordpress.com

http://chasingsquirrelswithrusty.wordpress.com
http://achicken.wordpress.com

Sous le Ciel de Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd0xaGfCXP4&feature=related

Green Ray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaWnukEhIaM&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

Regina - Bistra Voda

Just liked the music and didnt know know what the words meant but very emotional and eastern european, no bad thing in my small opinion..
http://lyricstranslations.com/eurovision-lyrics/eurovision-2009-bosnia-regina-bistra-voda
Bosnia & Herzegovina

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4787679/Two-police-officers-given-run-around-by-giant-white-rabbit.html

Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey

Visiting Sri Lanka and Bali.. crazy fish and civet cat coffee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m0xk9

Lunar planting

http://www.lunarorganics.com/

Falling stars

Very sleepy today, stayed up fo a while and saw three but meant to be over 80 passing an hour. Most magical thing. Last night was little tricky to see after midnight because of a bright moon thou best time is before dawn. Plenty of planes too, wondered about them flying in a sky full of small hurtling space rocks. Huge night sky filled with stars.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/08/10/2009-perseid-meteor-shower-double-peaks-this-year/
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question12.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/showers_andstars_000809.html

Perseid meteor shower

Tonight the 11th August from about 11pm until dawn and tomorrow 12th maybe you will see many shooting stars
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090810-perseid-meteor-shower.html

spooky..

at least the beginning.. please turn your sound on, when you visit this link
http://play.woolieshq.co.uk/?affsrc=WOOLIDE2&aff=email&cm_mmc=Email-_-090804_ideas_machine-_-HTML-_-Ideas+Machine

Buckingham Palace

Walked past Buckingham Palace yesterday and the excitement of the capital city and landmarks was huge but think the noise of the traffic must drive them nuts. Loved seeing the shiny big hotels like Park Lane and Mayfair with immaculate doormen in top hats and buildings with flowers growing vertically down the walls - all the places from the Monopoly Board. Wish could travel maybe on a 'duck tour' into the Thames or watch an outdoor play in Regents Park or Shakespeares' Globe beside the river as the sun goes down but it was also nice to jump on the train and leave the dusty city behind and go home

http://london-tour.conciergedesk.co.uk/Frog-tours-main-page.htm
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/

Onions are good for hay fever and...

http://www.onions.org.uk/facts/health.htm

Bubble and Squeak

Hankering for some bubble and squeak, havn't eaten this for long time. Used home grown cooked curly kale and new potatos and thought about adding some onions.. fried it all (oops) until potatos were crispy and added plenty of tomato sauce and listened to the rain fall

Its comfort food, a little like Pytt i panna
For meat eaters, Coco Cooks adds elk meat.. for me, think its nicer to see them in the wild and not in the pot

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bubble-and-squeak.html
http://cococooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/pytt-i-panna-swedish-hash-with-marx.html

Who do you want to be

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

The Obama Time Capsule

http://www.amazon.com/OBAMA-TIME-CAPSULE-History-Making/dp/B0025VKZ02

Cycle to Paris

Sadly having struggled to reach my target to go to Chile.. i am changing my challenge and cycling to Paris in the springtime, next year - plenty of time to get cycling legs :) and raise the target amount. So please keep on sponsering me!

Thank you very much for all the support so far and hope the team going out to Chile will have a great time. All the money, that i have raised so far has already gone to Computer Aid and will count towards my new target of £1300's.

im looking forward to cycling along the Seine and eating lots of pain au chocolats!

http://www.justgiving.com/cycleforchile/

Felipe Massa

Get well soon

Reindeer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZF5S5ko8dc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5l6nHAuX7M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSmmzi2FLo&feature=related

Bubble-y Art Project

A happy blog
http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/

French lavender

Busy cutting lavender before the heavy rain and thunder makes it too damp, but left plenty for the bees. My mum makes lavender wands, weaving ribbon somehow between long sticks, you need an odd number and they need to be fresh.

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was often 'strewn' on the floors of homes, castles and streets to keep insects away and mask smells. Ho hum

Below are links for uses of lavender - not so sure about using lavender in food, i made some lavender biscuits and felt ill for some time near lavender
http://www.howtodothings.com/health-and-fitness/a3410-how-to-use-lavender.html
http://healthmad.com/alternative/10-uses-for-lavender/

Thousands of French chipmunks heading west across Europe

Thousands of chipmunks carrying potentially fatal diseases have been spreading west across Europe and have reached Paris. In the woods around northern Paris, there are estimated to be more than 100,000.

The chipmunks are not shy and are very approachable and look very sweet and cuddly.

French experts warn that the animals, which can carry rabies and ticks causing Lyme disease, could soon reach Calais and sneak aboard vehicles and vessels heading to Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1201456/Fears-diseased-French-chipmunk-plague-reach-Britain.html

Anim8or

http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html
http://www.tysonibele.com/

Auction Sunday July 26th for Computer Aid International at the White Horse Pub in Ditchling

Thanks to all the local support, we raised £240s last night and two of the prizes have been given back to auction this Sunday

** Round of Golf for 4 at Mid Sussex Golf Club
** Personal training session for 1 hour with Sam at Esporta

Badger crash

Cycling in the hour before it gets dark and four small pointy nose things shot out from a bank making funny noises, infront of me, behind me and strait through the bicycle ...maybe they had stood for a while waiting to go across the road and one of them had said "Go" ...Realised i was screaming quite a bit and trying to lift my feet up, thinking they would bite me. but they all ran off again.

Evening chill in the air

althou its still summer, a sea wind rustling the leaves and an early evening chill and maybe just because i was feeling a little sad walking somewhere a few days ago, felt very much for a moment like somewhere id been before

Ditchling Beacon

Muddy and wet but finally made it by bike to the top of Ditchling Beacon and down.. very scary.. well took the long but slightly easier way up past Jack and Jill Windmills, past a lot of sheep

Be first to tour the Olympic stadium

Enter before midnight on Sunday 12th July
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/open-weekend/olympic-stadium-competition.php

London 2012 Open Weekend 2009... 24-26th July
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/open-weekend/event-search.php

Japanese Legends

When i was little my parents told us storys when we went to bed that they made up. One was about a mouse that lived in a drawer under the cooker, others about our chinese geese Chow and Lei that lived in the orchard and then there was finger man and stinky poo that lived in the medicine cupboard and came to school with us. Somewhere in their attic is an old tape machine with these storys.

Thought about this today, for no particular reason or maybe because of a Clematis called Fuji-Musume, with beautiful sky blue flowers which is also a famous classical dance from the Kabuki theater in Japan. Fuji (wisteria) Musume (maiden)...a tale about the 'Wisteria Maiden'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEigoV9nYXg
http://www.dragonstrike.com/mrk/myths.htm
http://through-the-sapphire-sky.blogspot.com/

An army of chimps escaped from their enclosure at lunchtime today

and made their way to their keepers area where their food is prepared, causing Chester Zoo to be evacuated. After lunch, the chips returned to their enclosures, some with very full bellys. :O)

Food Inc, the movie - watch the trailer

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Blue Guitar - The Moody Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oNXdv8S4QY&feature=channel_page

Tumbling over from next door

Mock orange blossom.. lovely scent on a warm day

Thriller tribute by Filipino inmates - original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

With great sadness, farewell Michael Jackson.
'Gone too soon'

Nyac and Milo holding paws

http://www.vanaqua.org/home/otters.html

Midsummer's Eve

Funny thing, tonight is Midsummer's Eve or St John's Eve who is the patron of shepherds and beekeepers, wild things that men gathers but cannot tame like sheep and bees and i have a few dozen beeswax candles to make before i go to sleep tonight

Stig to be revealed tonight - BBC Two 8pm

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/20/jc-stig-to-remove-helmet/

Environmental job website

UK and rest of the world
http://www.environmentjob.co.uk/

Father's Day and Origami frogs

sort of sweet aquarium, wind god and cactus templates
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/event/father/giftitem/index.html

origami frogs and frog chorus
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2005/00193/index.html

BB King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCNXASjzMY&NR=1

daddy jamms

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/772401/darios_musicians_with_tony_manias_soundcheck_jamming_part_one/

Great Reno Balloon Race 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmL664_Hec8

http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/life/the-power-of-simplicity/

Foodies video site - seasonal recipes

http://www.lookandtaste.com

Win a ticket to the Taste of Dublin where the 'Beer Naturally Academy' are running a master class matching quality beers with great food

Brawn - another great win, well done :)

Horsesmouth

http://www.horsesmouth.co.uk

Where....

http://machineslikeus.com/articles/WhereWasGod.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jan/03/tsunami2004.world

SAS Summer Promotions - Löytää

Book a flight to Stockholm and get free entrance to Absolut Icebar in Stockholm with a vodka cocktail served in ice glasses or explore Norway by air - with the Explore Norway ticket - unlimited flights for two weeks or maybe visit beautiful Helsinki and get 2 for 1 audio city tour
http://www.flysas.com/en/uk/Promotions-and-prices/

travelling on this rock spinning through space, my own small view, all faiths are equally significant and though there are fundamental differences, perhaps the significant thing is the common belief that there is one very powerful yet compassionate being who is there for all of us

Lao Tzu

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHPHIL/LAOTZU.HTM

Outdoors in Sweden

thinking, it would be nice to b
http://www.naturetravels.co.uk/category-all-experiences.htm

Quote from First Lady and Mom-in-Chief Michelle Obama

"My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls…that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe."

as a mom over here in the UK , think this is really sweet thing to say and a great message

new moon and in the darkness the wind soughed through the trees like waves eddying and pooling beside the sea, a damp sad night

Button, Barrichello and Brawn ... you are incredible

Well done

Cycling..

trying to get stronger but its not easy. The lanes round here in late May are beautiful and the smells.. wild garlic and today, Sunday dinner smells

Centipede joke

What do you get if you cross a centipede and a parrot ?
...... a walkie talkie !

Curious

Wanted to get an idea of what is best selling non fiction at the moment and these are on the best selling list, but maybe
more US than UK

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Who moved my cheese by Spencer Johnson
States of mind by Brad Herzog
Cybil Disobedience by Cybil Shepherd
What's holding you back by Linda Austin
Finest News Reporting by Scott Dikkers and the Onion

Kenny

our black and white cat has 'things' about his favourite places. Normally when i get up and open the door, he rushes out so fast, its like a small tank with a tail, knocking over everything in its way. Today, the sun is shining, birds and little voles (his favourite pasttime) are roaming around the garden but i have to lift Kenny, a small hissing Sid outside and a few moments later he is back, on the printer

Jalbum

to share your photo albums on your blog
http://jalbum.net

Jalbum have moved their servers to the ex nuclear bunker Pionen. The bunker is located 30 meters below ground. The inspiration for the place was old sci-fi movies like Star Wars and Logan’s run.

Jalbum blog badge in action ..
http://www.lescroix.blogspot.com/
http://jalbum.net/blog

Mamo

http://esc-gr.blogspot.com/2009/05/russia-anastasia-prikhodko-mamo.html
All the songs here from Eurovision.. the Russian one has sad but beautiful lyrics

Chelsea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/

Beauty in the rain

Today an artist from Poland knocked on our door with his charcoal sketches. We bought a sketch of a hare, a tall ship outside Gedansk and another of people huddled in a wagon in the Russian countryside. This reminded me a little of stories my mother told us of her father's background and a little of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The rain fell as he walked away.

Fudge Cookies

225g Soft butter
110g Caster sugar
275g Plain flour
300g of very small chopped up fudge
Banana (sliced) or blueberries
Sprinkle of cinnamon

Preheat oven to 170°C (325°F) Gas Mark 3
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until the mixture is light and fluffy. Sift in the flour and bring the mixture together to form a dough. Then add fudge with your hands. Use a spoon to scoop a walnut sized ball of mixture, as almost too soft to roll out. Flatten with a fork and bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until they are light golden brown. (Makes about 30)

Burned fingers warning .. if the fudge pieces are toooo big (because you thought this would taste even nicer) .. it will ooze out of the biscuits. If this happens it will be tricky to get the biscuits off the trays, wait too long and you will have fudge flavoured burned trays forever or not enough and you will have very burned fingers. Hmm.

Lola considering Formula One return in 2010

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9227.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfoLMa8bET4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUpIIYysoS4&NR=1

"Monks of the Jain Dharma are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms."

Piano

Does anyone else have a cat that plays the piano, not like a maestro but with his four paws. My small black cat mostly prefers the high notes, but when he plays the low notes, i know hes feeling neglected

Martin Clunes: Islands of Britain

..searching for island paradise in Barra and Eigg in the Hebrides

www.itv.com/Lifestyle/MartinClunesIslandsofBritain/
www.isleofeigg.org
www.isleofbarra.com

Brighton Festival starts today

Beginning with the childrens parade with 4000 children parading and sambering through the streets and ending on the 24th May with the big splash at the marina - stilt walkers, jugglers, acrobats, aerialists and pyrotechnicians.

http://www.brightonfestival.org/events.aspx?p=i&i=FOUT
http://www.brightonfestival.org/

Square eyes

Hell's Kitchen finalists Ade Edmundson (Vivian from the Young Ones) and Linda Evans - both made interesting comments - Ade said he would like to take away from the experience to try to be braver and "Linda, Linda, Linda .. where's my crab" .. will go home with Ade withdrawal..

my own opinion they are all pussycats including Marco Pierre

Well done Jenson Button, Rubens and Brawn

Chocolate Sachertorte

Chocolate heaven
http://www.sacher.com/en-original-sacher-tart.htm

know its spring but Kartoffelpuffer or Reibekuchen, they're so good - served with apple sauce from a street stand and taste just wonderful walking around outside especially in the winter as it gets dark and lights come on

Jordan's Big Buzzzzz and Bee Line

The Big Buzz campaign wants to help Britain’s bees buzz happily by filling your garden with free, bee-friendly plants

Jordans have created a fun message system, the Bee-Line that allows you to send your friends a message by bee, giving you a new way to stay in touch and spread the news of the Big Buzz.
You can send a Bee-Line to your friends by visiting
http://www.jordansbigbuzz.co.uk/funny-honey-stuff/bee-line

Looking for dragons

Happy St George's Day

Bamboo Bikes

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/bamboo-bike-project.html

League table of European youngsters' well-being

Maybe its about money and the social system, Elterngeld exists in Germany, France and Scandinavia.

A huge incentive in Scandinavian countries is that parents can share being off work during the first year of their new baby's life at around two thirds their annual salary and this continues into the second and third year, although at a lower rate. And when baby number two comes along after the third year, this system starts again

Maybe this is what whoever holds the purse in UK Government could be thinking about to make happier children and maybe other countries in Europe working long hours. Encourage families to be togethor and not so stressed at least when the children are little - think this would be worth paying more tax for

Not surprisingly in Scandinavian countries which are top of this league table, family policies have a downside for women, companies are reluctant to hire or promote women because they take so much time off to raise their children.

5 Paintball tickets for sponsorship for 'Cycle for Chile' - each ticket is for 8 people..

for whole day at one of 35 paintball centres in the UK and is worth £50's

Ticket includes equipment hire - helmets, body armour and commando battlepack and full public liability insurance for 8 people. Tickets are valid until March 2010

Please contact: info@honeybeeswax.com if youre interested

Conservation of the Rodrigues flying fox

looks a little like an upside down Zorro http://www.animalinfo.org/species/bat/pterrodr.htm

extreem sheepys

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/?bcpid=4464161001&bctid=17075685001

Crazy, wonderful and sometimes very sad

http://www.life.com

Seems we drive on the left hand side in the UK

because knights in the Middle Ages riding on horseback wanted to keep their right hand, usually their sword hand ready ... so they would keep to the left when travelling.

and for same reason many countries under French rule at some time, drive on the right as Napoleon was left handed

Rent a cherry tree

The price of renting a cherry tree is £35. For this, the orchard will look after your tree for you to pick at harvest. All the cherries on ‘your’ tree are yours.

As a guide, the price of cherries in supermarkets can range from £6 - £12 a kilogram. The yield on your tree will vary, but in an optimum year could be as much as 15-20 kilograms.

http://www.rentacherrytree.co.uk/

Old oak tree

near my mum and dad's home, an old oak tree fell down last year and have a slab of the tree to make a table, its taken some time to sand it down but counted the rings today and there are about 130 - guess that means it was a little acorn in ~1878.

Thats when weather data started to be collected, Cleopatras Needle arrived in London, Thomas Edison patented the gramophone, the Edison light company began, some of the first telephone exchanges were installed, the Tokyo Stock exchange was established and Disraeli anticipated war with Russia

Chile Cycle Challange for Computer Aid International

http://www.justgiving.com/cycleforchile

Kenny pudders

It was late, almost midnight and dark outside

...and unexpectedly, a tap at the door almost a scratch, so quiet thought i had imagined it - then the doorbell rang and the phone and doorbell rang at the same time then silence for a moment, then the doorbell and phone kept ringing, again silence then finally heard a car drive away but only a little way up the lane then the phone rang again

though very scared, picked up - a small cross voice:
"Its the pizza delivery man"

Button, Barrichello and all the team - you are legends and the Dark Blues and England football team

Well done - is that a hat trick?

drifting thoughts

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1070673/no_holiday_on_ice/

missing music on you tube

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/769930/three_polish_buskers_playing_dont_worry_be_happy/

Toby the bumblebee sniffer dog

bee id and advice about gardening and farmland management.. http://www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk

hmmmm

"All this stuff about if you're serving teas and snacks, you can't charge for entering the toilet. All right then, we'll charge you to exit the toilets and we'll let you enter free, but you'll have to pay a pound to get back out again" Michael O'Leary
And if you refuse...

Cooking by numbers and freddy ferret

The top three websites are aimed to help save on food shopping in recession hit UK and the last one have fun with recipes for those odd things you find in the back of your fridge and food cupboards

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/
http://www.fixtureferrets.co.uk/
http://www.supermarketownbrandguide.co.uk/
http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/

wild cherry blossom

Galapagos - Online Game Designer

Online volunteer game designer needed to design a game for supporters to play. A small game where you can "rescue" tropical frogs from various environmental hazards and then be invited to visit the website. Also website designers, SEO and linkbuilders needed and writers/trainee journalists

http://www.progresoverde.org/volunteer_online.html
http://jean-cassels.com/lonesomegeorge.html

Down by the sea

Spud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7940000/newsid_7947200/7947243.stm

Happy St Patricks Day

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were stranded on a little island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and one day they found a magic lamp. When they rubbed it. a genie appeared and granted them each any one wish they desired. 'I'd like to be back in London.' said The Englishman and he was whisked back to London. 'I'd like to be back in Glasgow,' said The Scotsman and he too was whisked away. 'I'm very lonely here all on my own,' said The Irishman, 'I wish my friends were back again.'

Dads Takeover Netmums

http://www.netmums.com/home/localhome/east_sussex/

Mansion Market

im impressed.. lots of great things being sold today by local crafts people in different rooms in Kidbrooke Mansion. During the week this is a Rudolf Steiner school.. maybe the best thing was the relaxed atmosphere and interesting people. Next one is 9th May - especially liked .. small felt animals and trolls, sushi, handmade chocolates and puppet shows .. also books, bags and beautiful clothes for bigger sizes
http://www.michael-hall.co.uk/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=31

Taiwan's blog

Found 'Interview Me' - from Taiwan looking for cherry blossom festivals - sakura - an omen of good fortune, love, affection and the coming of spring.

Interesting links about paradise fish that eat mosquitos and how the hair cutting business in Taiwan is called “golden bowl,” an old Chinese term, meaning there will always be a continuous flow of income..and about Steve Chen, the co-founder of You Tube. In the beginnings, it seems he had to give up his dreams of education for the work field, living off of credit cards, and started a business in a silicon valley garage

Stress down update

Sometimes stressing down, is just not going to happen, its like telling a charging rhinosuraus - take five minutes out - maybe it just needs to run around to feel better, and some chocolate

Help Exchange

An online listing of farms (organic and non-organic), homes, ranches, lodges, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation.
http://www.helpx.net/index.asp

Rock Chucking Chimp 'Proves Apes Plan Ahead'

Hmm.. lots of chimpy thoughts flash thru my head.. wonder what his plan B is

I wonder where dem birdies is?

'God gives every bird a worm, but he doesn't throw it in the nest' Swedish proverb

so long you tube music videos, hello msn

Takada Koen Cherry Blossom Festival 2009

Daydreaming maybe
http://gojapan.about.com/cs/cherryblossoms/a/sakurafestival.htm
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/131063-eventdetail/public/en_gb?eventID=36079

Kyoto is a good place to rent a bike and cycle around,
many rental bike shops
http://www.kctp.net/en/rental/index.html
Kyoto Cherry Blossom Spots http://gojapan.about.com/od/attractioninkyoto/tp/sakurakyoto.htm

'If I could change the seas into ink and make all the trees into pens and use the whole earth as paper, I still could not say enough about the magic of the divine.' Kabir (15th century poet)

Marrocco’s

8 Kings Esplanade, Hove seafront - Wonderful place to go at the end of a walk along the seafront for most sundae dreaming sunday strollers. Frothy Italian expresso and ice creams to take away. Wide pavements along the beach for rollar blading beside the smarty colored beach huts
http://www.marroccos-restaurant.co.uk

Eco Build

Visited Eco Build at Olympia www.ecobuild.co.uk - the layout brought back memories of the Ideal Home Show - (mile upon mile of show stands and some free things). Very impressed by all the green possibilities, especially green roofs - planted with sedums not just grass. Entrance to Eco Build was free and many conferences and seminars www.eco.co.uk

Soft Belly Meditation

Information about the very amazing Rufus May and the cause he supports
www.rufusmay.com

Squeaky

Went to listen to life coach Pete Cohen and came home with a squeaky yellow duck.. funny story about learning not to listen to your inner voice, the one that tells you - you're not good enough

Flower

Lovely idea
http://mefeedia.com/entry/flower-trailer/14354821

Fuzzy orange ball

Noticed the sun looked like a large fuzzy orange ball as it was setting low in the sky late afternoon.. the sort of sun that might have been in the sky of an impressionist painting.

CEO without borders

Project portfolio under cooperation project
http://www.ceoswb.org

Orangutans and One Life Live

Relaxing in a restored farmhouse in the Andalucian hills in Spain helps orangutans in Borneo
http://agoodplace.co.uk
One Life Live - Olympia in London 13-15th March
http://www.onelifelive.co.uk/

Village

isn't it funny, just when the clouds get as black as they can, suddenly someone does something nice.. they say you need a village to raise a child and i think this could be true but here in the west, i think for a lot of us that doesn't exist - for different reasons. mostly we all rush around doing things and dont notice maybe someone needs us.

Polar bears and dogs playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8&feature=channel_page
(id be a bit scared if i was the small white dog)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXtBpfR69E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMle_-3Cis0&NR=1

Going underground

Every year, the caves underneath the cobbled streets of Arras in France are transformed into a living garden.
This year, from 15 March to 22 June, the theme is music.
http://www.ot-arras.fr/
Other events in France (but an old list)
http://www.southtravels.com/europe/france/events.html

Gustini

added some Gustini adverts
thinking about real pizza or pasta in the sunshine on a Tuscan hill or maybe beside the sea
http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/restaurants/reviews.asp
http://www.ilpozzo.net/homeilpozzo_ing.html
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/travel/13Bites.html

Chocolate strawberry

First time taking my things to a wedding fair. Dresses and jewellery there were beautiful and a chocolate fountain very close to me :) - there is a place on Hastings pier in the summer that makes lovely chocolate strawberrys

www.balloonacy.co.uk
(like the house covered in balloons)

Happy

Strolling round Ikea, checking out all the lights, storage and small things, meatballs with lingonberry sauce, daim cake. Like a theme park for homesick Swedes - the odd elk crossing the route from time to time, would be fun :O)

Stellar

http://spoken-gems.com/2008/12/23/michio-kaku-3-types-of-extraterrestrial-civilizations/

Compassionate communication

Sometimes find communication tough either because you cant find words or what comes out of your mouth isn't what you mean. Talking is easy but maybe not communicating .. someone told me about a book written about this and found this website
http://www.cnvc.org/

Fluffy

Have a few problems, can't sleep and find Fluf, my little black cat and feel a lot better.

Day dreaming

Travelling round Venice and the islands on a vaperetto

http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/veneto/venice/islands.html

Find out what stuff is needed where you are going

Stuffyourrucksack
http://www.stuffyourrucksack.com/

Under milkwood

Something about the nearly spring evening ..

"To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles)..."

Small furry creature

..or maybe discovered a design flaw in nissan cars.. turned on the engine and closed the car door, to keep the car warm while scraping frost off the windscreen and got locked out.. with my house keys, bag and phone in the car. Didn't think this was possible. Several hours later and slightly blue from frostbite, a man from nissan turned up with a skeleton key. Seems ice can get down into the lock and somehow short circuit the system and lock the car. Have a more interesting theory.. little green men with remote controls.
http://www.koalaexpress.com.au/blinky.htm
(save the wombat)
http://serf.org/wombats.html

Hero dog

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090211/twl-brave-dog-died-to-save-children-3fd0ae9.html

The sun is back and i was sort of happy walking outside until came across a badger by the side of the road.. but guess someone had very carefully lifted him there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvv1pgbHk4&feature=related

http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/studios/studio2/

Hyviä unia, oman kullan kuvia

Last night an almost full moon turned the fields and hedges around to silver while large clouds billowed across the sky - seems incredible that across an ocean it's still afternoon and across another ocean it's already tomorrow, but we all look at the same moon.

The butterfly effect ...
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/the_meaning_of_the_butterfly/?page=full

Stress down on 6th February

Underneath the Downs here in Sussex, hoping for more snow but seems rain after all. If you are in work on Friday... its 'Stress down Friday', wear your slippers and take it easy.
http://www.stressdownday.org/

The washing machine that ate my Sari

Swimming outside this morning - running to the pool was almost brave (the water was heated) and now a small snow storm, maybe more tomorrow :)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1456209

Marmalade

Little raw outside so having a go at making marmalade and there is more marmalade everywhere than in the jars.. but by the time its ready to go in the jars and finished all the shredding and other things you need to do, feeling a little anti-marmalade.

Snusmumriken

There is a character in the moomin books called snufkin, at the end of Finn Family Moomintroll, when
winter comes, snufkin sniffs the air and knows its time
to be travelling south but promises to return in the spring.

http://archive.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/18/why/index.html

www.thechestnut.com/moomins-2.htm#1

he he

:O)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKOO91p494

Best job in the world

G'day, have my cozzie and didgeridoo in my swag and im off down under. Guess there wont be too many mackers and milk bars, but looks like a good pozzie to me.. My shout in the local billabong
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7823812.stm

Market Garden in Kibera

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/01/kiberas-organic-market-garden-green.html

Just being.. happy

Something seem to forget about when thinking about making new year resolutions. Found this link.. to make mums happy
http://www.netmums.com/homelife/Making_Mums_Happy.354/

Snow

Woke up to snow :)

The adventures of Huxley Joly

Racing at Plumpton cancelled as temperatures dropped to -7.5 overnight, so walked over the fields to Stoneywish (little bit scary) and found this in the papers over a hot cup of coffee http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-huxleys-brave-new-world-of-robotic-surveillance-1224216.html

Very frosty but no snow

Temperatures may drop to -5 degrees the next few nights, sort of impressive for the South of England, but no snow. Ive been pruning vines and apple trees when the sun melted the frost but the temperatures dropped below zero few hours later.. Tomorrow im taking my calendars to Plumpton race track and hoping...

Wondered if its Venus and Mars so bright in the sky the last few nights.

Found the Timbukto Chronicles - a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities in Africa
http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com