The Sound Of Loneliness Turned Up To Ten

Once again, things have gotten busy and to make up for a lack of stuff from me, here's 'The Fear', another track from Pulp's performance at the Reading festival from 2000:

Red Nose Dave

I love Comic Relief and Red Nose Day. When I was a kid I used to do a lot of fundraising, collecting and donating for it, but in recent years time and money has been scarcer and my involvement has rarely run further than purchasing some noses.

Two years ago I took this photo and since my finances aren't much better I've decided to recreate it with this year's noses:


You should donate.

Carruthers Camera #10

Another set of five photos taken for the Carruthers blog:

It's unusual for me to take photos of people, but I took these photos of Michael Everhard (the non-flora one) and that of Andy Cartwright during the filming of Rehearsals.

The Offending Vending machine was in the lobby of the hotel that we stayed after the first night's filming of Slash. They knew their clientele very well.

Could You Be More Specific? was taken in the Kashmir restaurant in Bradford. Known locally as 'the Kash'.

Hair Removal is a barbers in Oxford and was taken through the window of a bus.

Back Of The Net

Just like the rest of the internet, the community of people that write blogs and read blogs have come up with customs, such as blogfests and awards. For the uninitiated, which included me until very recently, a blogfest is when a blogger organises an opportunity for several bloggers to write something on the same subject and then compare and contrast the results. So far I have written for three such events, namely: Top Ten Films They Should Have Made..., Share Your Ten Best Novels and Top Ten Horror/Science Fiction Movie Quotes.

Awards are much easier to explain since people get those in the real word too. I've been lucky enough to receive two awards as a result of what I've written.

Ellie Garratt awarded this for comments made on her blog, although I can't remember what I wrote in them. I'm sure they were heartfelt.


SparkleFarkle gave me a Microfiction Prize, specifically for this Microfiction Monday post. My bowling hasn't improved though.


Thank you again to the pair of you.

Possibly the most flattering, however is my inclusion on a list of "more wonderful people ..." on the blog of Dominic de Mattos.

Microfiction Monday #73 & #27

It's Microfiction Monday:


He used be someone, he used to mean something, people used to look at him.

Now they barely notice him when they're dusting.

- - - - -

Here's the twenty-seventh picture:


Here's my response:

She strummed. She was bored of musing. She pondered whacking her sister upside her head with the harp. She strummed again.

Bad Spock Drawings

Leonard Nimoy is a much respected actor best known for playing a member of one of the most respected alien races in popular culture and yet for some reason someone has been moved to create and collect Bad Spock Drawings.

I like Star Trek. In spite of this, I drew these.

Thy Country, 'Tis Of Thee

Google Analytics also provides me with information on which country you the reader is reading from.

In the last year or so, people visited this blog from the following 79 countries:

Australia, Austria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzogovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Macedonia [FYROM](Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia?), Malaysia, Malta, Isle of Man, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Phillippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen & (not set).

I have been to 12 of the above countries, I'm working on the others. Except (not set) which sounds like floating on a raft in international waters with parched lips and squinting at the sun.