Rebecca and I went to see Tracy Emin's 20 Year exhibition before work on Saturday. As you could expect from us we did it in the wrong order and had to track back against the flow of visitors. I really enjoyed it, mostly because she works in different mediums and despite them all differing, they have constant themes and, most importantly, I knew what she was on about for the most part.I haven't spoken to anyone that likes her work.We met one of our old high school teachers (we actually bump into her semi-often and can never tell which one of us she remembers or what - we were in different years and didn't know each other at school and meeting this teacher usually involves avoiding first names and specifics..) and she was a bit spaced out after it and said something which would not end up...

The Conservative-run Telford & Wrekin Borough Council has made a laughing stock of itself again. Yes, it has returned to victimising the Telford penguins.Telford & Wrekin Council Watch tells us that a "green day" is to be held in Madeley Park on Sunday 5 October. And Rachel Whittaker, one of the penguins, had been invited to attend. Now that invitation has been withdrawn without explanation.The website comments:The Council know who this collective are, they know the contents of the leaflet they wish to distribute and have previously distributed, but in a weird twist say they do not know who they are.Don't they read the Shropshire Star? I know I...

Antivirus blows. We know it, you know it -- hell, even the people who make the stuff know it. But there's a new piece of AV software that has changed our perceptions....

The Guitarist "I'm a guitarist." Do you strip walls? "No." Do you drive? "No." Do you teach? "No." What sort of conversationalist are you? "Well, I'm not really a conversationalist." Are you a comedian, then? "No, I don't think I'm a comedian." What are your views? "Well, I don't really have views." You don't have views, or you just don't want to say them? "Not really, no." So you don't believe in anything? "Well, I don't know." You don't know. "I'm a guitarist; that's what I do." And do you think being a guitarist is the answer to anything? "I don't know." Don't you ever stop to question things? "All the time. That's why I play...

Stamping feet! Crossing arms! *pouting* I’ve found a house I love.  Seriously, I love it and have been by to see it daily.  It’s still in the general area I’m in now meaning Squidge will be attending a decent primary school.  It’s a stones throw away from a large park w/ a duck pond and a large playground.  It’s well within our budget (I’m still shocked by that).  I’ve contacted the estate agent and I hope to view the property soon.  I’m sad because I know I will not ever live in this house.  I know this because I live with a man that will move when he damn well pleases.  The problem with that is that I hate living in this  house.  I really really really hate it.  I hate everything about it.  Mostly I hate the smallness of it. ...

FLYDE and Wyre councils are doing for the British film industry what Guy Ritchie is doing for the British film industry. Here’s a video instructing locals, in an entertaining and informative manner, how to use their bins. Open the lid and pop the rubbish inside..? Oh, no, gentle resident, this is high tech bin use. So you think you know what cardboard is? When is plastic not plastic? Why, when it’s shaped like a bottle. When is metal a can or a tin? Think you know? You know...

Last seen in GuildfordYou know the lizard man. He's that guy who looks absolutely normal right up to the moment he rips off his face to reveal the giant slavering lizard within.To be honest, I thought he'd gone to ground. He hadn't been seen round our way since 1994 when one of the junior Tylers managed to photograph him in Guildford High Street. But this morning I'm wondering if he's back among us. In fact, I'm wondering if I am he.According to Mr Aaronwitz:"If I was a rank-and-file reactionary Conservative, forced to swallow political failure for more than a decade, and now permitted, lizard-like, to come out of my smelly culvert to claim a place on the sunny rock, I might let the light go to my head too. I might preen my scales and tell tales of the decline - no, the breaking - of...

1. Do come to the right cinema. Don’t argue that we don’t have your tickets, you should be at our rival up the road. What does it say about you that you have managed to turn up at the wrong cinema? We are not impressed, nor are your family who will now be late for their film. 2. Don’t change your concessions order after we give you your food. We have to write it off as damages and void the order. We won’t like you for that. Our managers blame us when you decide to have a hot dog instead of nachos AFTER we give you your nachos. 3. When we ask you if you would like to “go large for 50p” you say “yes.” We need to get our average sales per person up or get beaten up by the manager. 4. Don’t bring your own food. The smell of a burger in...

Warning: Possible triggers.In the late Seventies, so the story goes, a lovelorn young chef at what used to be The Central Hotel in Glasgow jumped to his death from a top floor window. Shortly afterwards, the top two floors were vacated, the rooms left as they were to this day.As you might expect, the hotel is reputed to be haunted. But the oddest phenomenon is more likely the work of man than supernatural: a narrow room studded floor to ceiling with razor blades. Anyone entering would run the risk of being cut to pieces.But, of course, you already know how that feels, don't you?You know what it is to twist and turn and struggle. You know what it is to be trapped. You know the panic, you know the dread and you know the pain.If only you could see them, maybe you'd stand a chance. It isn't...

Sketched from Post Your BeaverApparently they're called Emily and Tiffany, but well, there's only one thing better than porn lookalikes of people you used to know, and thats porn lookalikes of two people you used to know, at the same time.Its wrong, I know, but hey, what would you...

A friend and I were cruising the streets of Youngstown together, he told me about how he and his girlfriend had a really good relationship. Then he gave me details about it, which were that they not tying each other down, there was no talk of marriage, no talk of kids, no talk of the future. They wake up, see other, and be friendly, have sex, and lives their lives, kind of being in the here and now.I noticed that everyone I know who has good relationships usually has that, some that are even married have that.I think it is because people who have bad relationships, and I would say this involves the relationship between parent and child also. People who have horrible relationships with their lovers and children are people who view their lover and children as something being owned by them....

This may not be your style of music, but for me it expresses the human's heart response to God in a really really clear and uplifting way.It is always good to know what motivates the worship leader - that is why "When the music fades" by Matt Redman and "My Jesus, my lifeline" by Tim Hughes have been particularly special songs for me, as I have heard the writers explain the signifiance and the journey they went on to write the song.So when I heard this song at a recent Trumpet Call conference at the NEC I decided to find out more about both the song and the worship leader, Godfrey Birtill.Here he explains how the song was birthed:Which fills me with a lot of confidence.And here he is playing it. I think it is an absolute juggernaut of a song. Bold, brash, and absolutely right for this...

Dive complained in a comment on a recent post on here that he didn't know much about current popular music because he is old.  I'm nearly as old as him, and don't know very much about current popular music either.  What I do know about it is a bit random.   There comes a point in your life when it seems a bit unseemly to be "up" on, I dunno, bassline house, or whatever happens to be fashionable...

There are things that I know, and things that I don't know. Of the things that I don't know I know what I have to do. Take them to hospital. Take for example the patient with an unusual underlying illness that I attended to. She was having some strange symptoms that weren't specifically connected to her normal condition. Whatever ailed her I wasn't able to do anything about, so I knew I had to take her to hospital. But which hospital? You see, if the symptoms were caused by her bleeding into her brain then I'd bypass the nearest hospital and take her to one with a neurological unit. If not, then the nearest hospital would be the best place for her. So you do a neurological assessment and make your decision. But that's not all. Back when I was an A&E; nurse, sitting...

Round at Talking Philosophy Jeff Mason is asking us to think about death and the fear of death. He mentions what some of the philosophers have said about this:Epicurus famously tells us that where death is, I am not; and where I am, death is not. So death is not to be feared, since it is nothing, and we will never experience death. As Wittgenstein tells us, being dead is not an experience within life. We will never know death.Anything you can philosophize about you can also blog about. Here are three blog-thoughts on the topic Jeff raises. 1. We do sort of know what death will be like, because we know what it's like not to be alive (and I don't just mean that we know it from those periods when life is dull). True, at the time when we weren't yet alive, we didn't then know what it was...

You know that Sky and Water II is a replacement project for this weekend because Sky and Water I has some dropped stitches in it? You know how I have been knitting furiously through the pain barrier to get it finished in time? You know it is now just 1 pattern repeat from being finished? Can [...]...

Ask Incidentally, because I know someone in my readership must know the answer: I’m sure I read in an interview in Doctor Who Magazine ages back that a Virgin NA/BBC Books writer who was a contributor to an adult books range, wrote a novel which featured a thinly disguised version of the amnesiac Eighth Doctor from the trapped on Earth arc that began with The Burning and that it had recently been reprinted. Does anyone know the title? Have I gone bonkers?...

From about 5 weeks of age it may be possible to tell the difference between a duck and a drake. how would u know a duck from a drake i got them 8 weeks ago they are starting to get there feathers and i am curious to know. Marcella Hi Marcella, My ducks are coming up to 5 weeks old, so I should soon know myself whether I have ducks or drakes or both. Apparently you may be able to tell the difference by their tail feathers and it is the male that has curling tail feathers. Some breeds of duck the male are more brightly coloured. Also some breeds show a different colour in their bills from about 6 weeks between the male and female, where the females is usually darker. I believe that drakes usually have larger bodies and heads and a softer quack, whereas the female has a louder more...

Religion Even though we know dinosaurs survived the flood (on Noah’s Ark) we don’t know if Jesus ever rode them....

Hi all! This is the new animation that I’ve been working on. The main reason for me doing this was to practice my lighting skills as I’ve never really done any, and also work on textures and modelling. The character I used (the ‘generi’ rig) is a free download from a few animation websites, but everything else in this animation is all my work. So if any of you know anyone in the animation industry, or you’re in the industry and know of any jobs going, please let me know!! Please take a look at let me know what you think of it and you can see the rest of my animation work at Danny Martin’s Animation Videos. Ender The Graveyard Games to Play Now - Games on the Internet © This is a post from Zath! - UK Technology Blog, be sure to check it out for...

Burning Babies is being published.It will not be on amazon I think.You will have to go to the a-head site and buy it there. I think you get a free copy when you purchase Treatise. It is a short run.This is not entirely the original Burning Babies. Things have been added. I'm not telling what.Unless you own one of the fifty original copies review copies. You will neve know. I have two of them. I think I know where ten of them are. One time someone put one on amazon in the used section and they were selling it for 10,000 dollars. I don't know if it was sold. I know it wasn't there anymore after a week. This is serious business.Burning Babies!I want to say thank you to Lisa Lesser. She is working really hard and doing a great job. I met her in person and she is really nice. We...

Why assume that 51m English people want to know what 5m Scots or 3m Welsh people are getting up to on the BBC news each day?Do people living in Dover and Folkstone need more BBC news coverage about what's happening in France!?!I'm quite happy for Wales and Scotland to be "far off countries of which I know little" to paraphrase Chamberlain as it only makes me angry to know how my taxes are spent on luxuries denied to me in...

I love this top and dress so much that I have posted 5 images just to tell you about them. They are half price and available online from a Parisian shop that I know and love - Gaspard Yurkievich.Now I would buy them in a heart beat if my boobs were smaller but I just know I would look dreadful in them. This comes with age you know - the big boobs and knowing what they don't work with.The link takes you straight to the Sale page. If anyone buys it please let me know....

Look, I'm sick of this - men have been to the Moon and come back to tell the tale. No - it does not make you radical to deny this.I know I have no personal evidence that this is the case - but it is. Accept it! This is conspiracy theories gone mad for Goodness Sake. You don't have to question everything that's ever happened you know, you really don't.I'm posting up a poll (see right hand column), to close the last day of the month, asking readers "Have men walked on the Moon"? Do not disappoint me readers.I'm not putting a don't know option either because you blooming well...

There are people who hold things I was trying to contrast two forms of life, but how can one hold clearly, even if simply by way of opposition, what one is not? "There are people who hold things," I began: "they see something, and they pick it up, and then they live around it. You see it in their rooms sometimes, but not just in their rooms -- everywhere. What I say -- I don't know how to be clear. This subject doesn't matter; I don't know how to be clear about anything. It's as if, sometimes it seems to me, nothing has a beginning, anywhere. And when I say words, it's as if you're just saying something to the back of things." I said: "When I say people who hold things, I just mean that their houses are full of them -- their flats, their rooms, any place they...

Jim Murdoch on The Truth About Lies, has an interesting review of Fair Play, a collection of short stories or a novel by Tove Jansson: The little red light came on. Fassbinder confronted them in all his exquisite, controlled violence. It was very late when he was done. Jonna switched on the lamp, slipped the cassette into its cover, and put it on the shelf labelled “Fassbinder”. “Mari,” she said, “are you unhappy that we don’t see people?” “No, not any more.” “That’s good. I mean, if we did see them, what would it be like? Like always, exactly like always. Pointless chatter about inessentials. No composition, no guiding idea. No theme. Isn’t that right? We know roughly what everyone will say; we know each other inside out. But here...

We all know that Al Gore wants to save the environment – right? Well I’m not so sure actually. Is he vegetarian? No. Is he at least thinking about it? It doesn’t seem that way. One thing we do all know, is that the meat industry is killing this planet. So the best way to do something about is to, you know, not eat meat. Check out this great comment-piece by PETA US’ Bruce Friedrich in the Huffington Post. Image: Business Week /...

Gordon Brown’s Ask The PM Prime Minister’s Questions-YouTube mashup is all very welcome but could do with a little tweaking… He’s getting there, but there are some big holes in the ‘initiative’ (I can’t believe he used the word) as it stands. Why do questions have to be submitted in the form of a video? That might be ‘down’ with the kids but the bastards don’t vote. My gran doesn’t have a video camera. Or the Internet - 39% of the country don’t. How do we know Labour Party activists aren’t rigging the vote to push favoured questions to the top of the list? it’s called ‘astroturfing‘ and, forgive my cynicism but, it’s not as if New Labour haven’t been guilty of it before. How do...

I felt emotional while watching "Funny Ha Ha" (Wikipedia). Sometimes while watching it I had urges to stop the movie or to look away from the screen because it was making me feel like I was experiencing the things happening in the movie which made me feel "awkward" or like "errr." In the movie one person described a phone conversation as "We were like mmrrrr mrrr" and he made a face. I felt really excited when that happened. I looked at the person's face and thought "Wow, that was really good, he is really good." I wasn't being sarcastic. I'm not sarcastic like that. I really thought something like "Wow." After I watched the ending of "Funny Ha-Ha" I watched the ending again. It was like a K-mart Realism short-story ending kind of or something. Sometimes in a K-mart Realism short story...

I know, I know, awful picture. But look, ducklings! 14 of them! With one mother! Albeit that 9 and 11 look like they are fostered... Go on, click on it, you know you want to - those little fluffy features, their cute tiny wings......