well. i caught a Beautiful South video on The Amp earlier.
it’s quite excellent and you should watch it. there’s a few excellent moments – especially the slippery floor sign and the recreation of the builder sign.
see it here (at the moment):
High Speed Connection
Medium Speed Connection
Low Speed Connection
here are esther and kezia outside church looking at the confetti left from a wedding the day before.
up close the confetti complimented the autumnal colours and the beautiful dew drops.
in a battle between man made and natural, i think the natural was winning.
click the leaves
there’s are a number of adventure golf courses on the isle of wight. the theme of this one was a desert island. for some reason it had a real wrecked airplane crashing in to it, complete with a manequin pilot with matted hair and a very scarey starey face.
the neon at the bottom of the picture on the left says “family amusements”
sing along now:
“like a glove on a tyre, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free”
sunkened boat in the thames.
these kids spent about half an hour trying to drag this lobster pot off the beach. i bet their parents were very pleased when they got it home.
i gave up chocolate nearly 4 weeks ago. but we went to a restaurant today and i decided (in advance) i wanted the chocolate cake. so i did.
i’ve been thinking about how to make the transition back to everyday life with the chocolate thing. i still need chocolate bars badly, but don’t have as much of an issue with cake.
so i’ve decided to stay away from chocolate biscuits and especially chocolate bars, but otherwise be a bit more flexible on cake and puddings (which i don’t often have anyway).
i felt a bit sick after this cake (which was huge) and i thought it was much too sweet. which is excellent news !
perhaps i’m finally kicking the habit …
here we are having a picnic in a carpark in some cold november rain. british life at its best.
we went to my mum’s house yesterday and had a very nice day. she even looked after the girls for a couple of hours so jane and i could go speed-shopping.
when we got back it was time for sparklers.
on our recent holiday on the isle of wight i discovered that fudge would make an ideal chocolate substitute. so we bought some traditional isle of wight clotted cream fudge.
however, the postcode of the place of manufacture showed it was made in Exeter ! still tasted great though.
we haven’t got a dog, but i got this rather nice ‘thanks for looking after my dog’ box ‘o’ fudge for my mother. doesn’t she look pleased with it ?
this sign was definately for the baby changing but i can’t work out what it’s meant to be showing. it looks more like an alien autopsy.
