Just a reminder, it's the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, and the survey's 30th anniversary too. Check out the website, it'll tell you everything you need to do.

The weather looks likely to be rotten so it's the perfect way to enjoy some wildlife inside the warmth of your kitchen windows.

Most Americans on my friends page seem to have been genuinely touched by yesterday's events, and fair enough to them, history and hope and everything. For me, I just thought his speech was flat, even tedious once the realisation dawns that it's all rule-of-three listing. We'll face bad-bad-BAD, but we'll overcome with good-good-GOOD. Lazy speech- ( Read more... )

Heard some really crappy news yesterday, my old LJ friend dandelionchain has died. I don't know the details yet, but she'd been fighting cancer for several years. It's the greatest unfairness, I'm not a spiritual person, however in Lisa it was easy to see a good spirit. When she wrote about her love for nature she had a special way communicating how much it ( Read more... )

"We currently are in the process of evolving Yahoo! Music to further meet the needs of our users and give music fans more of what they want ( Read more... )

Cameron Diaz, Vic Reeves, Jarvis Cocker, Sam West, Daryl Hannah, Damon Albarn, Joanna Lumley, Mick Jagger, Van Morrison, Robyn Hitchcock, Princess Takamado of Japan, Caroline Quentin... guess what links them...

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Having listened to a dramatisation of 'The Good Soldier Svejk' on Radio 4 last weekend (available to listen to here for another couple of days), the book itself is definitely going on my must read list. A satirical classic all right, the first great anti-war novel, and I want to read any book by a Czech anarchist who among many other adventures ( Read more... )

Comedian on Radio 4, "So there's a recession, must be awful for the people involved."

Tried an up close panorama of the hall yesterday... it was successful in a 10% weird way...

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So wait a second...

The government is guaranteeing private investments in the failed Icelandic banks, so all kinds of greedy Telegraph reading arseholes won't lose any of the money they put into Iceland - folks who are generally wealthy enough to take the hit and not lose their homes.

And yet...

The government will not guarantee public ( Read more... )