Bird bird bird, the bird is the word - I listen to nearly all my music either directly from my computer or with my iPod. At home my computer is connected to my hi-fi and if I'm out walking I use the iPod, even in the van the iPod connects to the van's radio. I do still buy vinyl, both new and second hand, but don't get around to listening to it very often. I recently bought this box set by The Cramps, it contains ten 7" 45s all pressed on nice thick vinyl. When I played them it was a revelation, almost like hearing the songs for the first time again. It's really worth the effort to get up every three minutes and flip the record over. I really hope vinyl will be here for a few more decades yet.
Well, don't you know about the bird - Pair of cormorants on the rocks near Pendennis Castle in Falmouth.
An old streetlight was painting mystical circles - We popped into Sandwich late this afternoon for a hot chocolate and a slice of cake. Then spent an hour walking around the back streets and alleyways of the town as the sun disappeared.
I turn into a teenage goo goo muck - View from Margate pier as the sun goes down.
Spiders in my eyelids and ghosts in the cheese - This is the 1939 set of Garden Flowers cigarette cards published by WD & HO Wills. They used to belong to my Mum, she passed them onto Lin several years ago. The dried flowers on the right are gypsophila that came from Mum's wedding bouquet.
No matter how many times I look at this page I always see the black and white pansy as a skull and the yellow one above has turned into James Finlayson!
Goin' home - We had our first delivery today of jumbo free range eggs from a local company called S&J Eggs who deliver across Thanet right to your front door. Judging by the look of them we will be making this a regular order.
Caveman no fool - For hundreds of years man has explored caves all around the world and discovered clues to the ancient people who lived in them. Maybe some primitive paintings on the wall depicting how they hunted, or perhaps the remains of some tools that they used. I explored a small cave, not far from the Main Sands at Ramsgate and found two, possibly ancient beverage containers. I'm no expert so I'm unable to say what this tells us about the ancient people of the area or even what it tells us about the current inhabitants.
Tarzan drove a stingray - Not a sight you would of wanted to see in early 1944. This is one of Hitler's V1 flying bombs, often known as doodlebugs or buzz bombs because of the sound made by it's engine. The German's launched thousands of these from Calais in northern France aimed towards London. Each one carried a one ton warhead.
Hospitality's thin there - This is on an old warehouse in Canterbury. I'm not sure if it was part of the old tannery, but it's in that general location.
Beneath these bones let these words be seen this is the bloody gears of a boppin' machine - Just got home from the Battle Of Hastings May Day Run, which is a bike run from Locksbottom near Orpington down to Hastings. It's always a great day out with thousands of bikers descending on the seafront including this chap who I spotted on the rear end of a trike.
When I said Joe sent me, someone laughed out loud - I've known this door for very nearly forty years, passed it regularly and have never seen it open, not once, not even a crack.
Everybody knows that the bird is the word! - A trip to Sandwich is not complete without visiting and of course, feeding the ducks by the river.
When I die don't you bury me at all - Lin found this jaw bone from an unknown animal whilst working in a garden.
