Oh, No!

Oh, no! Still having problems with this site.

Two people in a boat

A silly drawing to reward you for visiting here. Makes it all worthwhile really, doesn't it?

Another day, another pond.

I made another pond today. This time in the front garden, so passers-by can see it. Making ponds is quite easy, so long as you follow the three golden rules, which are: Dig a hole; put some pond liner in; fill it with water. If you do that, you won't go wrong.

Why I drink a lot

People often ask me why I drink so much. It's so I can make pictures out of the bottle tops. Otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Reduced Circumstances

I was trying to be clever and tampering with forces I don't understand and I completely ruined the other template. Still, so what?

Still in the Garden...zzz..

oo..er. I seem to have done something wrong to this site.







My garden is looking pretty from certain angles.
1. General flower view.
2. The yellow flower. This is Corydalis Lutea. A more or less wild plant, widespread in some parts of Bristol. I don't think it has a common name. I call it 'Poshweed' as there's a lot of it growing round the posher areas of Bristol, like Clifton. I have got a lot in my garden, despite not living in a posh area, because a) I introduced it and b)I'm a vegetarian and used to read The Guardian.
3. Hairy creature. I don't know anything about it. It looks Scottish.
4. Forget-me nots

5&6. Don't know what these are called.
7 & 8. EEK! Baby Spiders. This lot just appeared overnight. Most of them haven't woken up yet, but the more energetic ones are scrambling up and down the rigging to the flowerpot. I haven't thought of names for them yet. Any ideas?

spider update 18/5/06. They seem to have made a communal web and are now huddled into a ball in the middle of it. Doesn't make a very good photo (I did try). This could be what they do anyway, or it could be because it is quite cold and rainy and the wind is building up - the forecast is for unseasonably strong size nine gales. I'll keep you informed of their progress.
update 19/5/06. The spiders have huddled into two balls, presumably because of the bad weather. One of them is missing. I am making posters to put on lamp posts
9. Another frog photo. The last one, I think. I like having frogs in the garden, but they're slightly lacking in Blog Entertainment Value. So Bye Bye, Froggy.
10. Another spider photo. Do they have BEV? I like them anyway. This was taken by Alex, but of the same bunch of spiders round my house. It was taken on Thursday morning. Just after a rain shower. You can see the spids clinging onto little drops of rain. It's spider-tastic, to say the least.
On a more serious note, the missing spider has not turned up yet. I have issued a description: between six to eight legs, yellow body, likes weaving webs; I can't think of a lot more to say.

Missing Spider Found! The baby spider who has been missing for the last two days has turned up safe and well. He was taken in by a neighbour who thought he was a stray. She was about to take him to the Bristol Home for Lost Arachnids when she saw my sign on the lamp-post. The spider is glad to be back and was unharmed by his ordeal, apart from having some of his legs pulled off.

In the Garden

Working in the garden this morning. Saw a Damsel Fly, a regular visitor since the pond has been here. Clearing what I thought was a dead plant from the pond, I disturbed this frog. The plant turned out not to be dead after all.

Blossom

May blossom on hawthorn bushes.

The Greenbank Slasher

Look what the cat did to my nose. Her favourite game is waiting on the stairs and then slashing out at me as I walk past at ground level.That's the thanks I get for all the cat food I buy. Doctors have told me that I won't be able to use this nostril for several weeks.

Broadmead development

They're still busy in Broadmead. What are they up to? My guess is they're building something. Shops probably.

Urdu Poster

Urdu Poster, shop window, Stapleton Road.

Fearsome Critter

Saw this many-legged beastie on the wall of my house tonight - outside fortunately.

Ross Daly

Ross Daly is a musician featured on Radio Three's +Late Junction quite often.

He is Irish, but lives in Crete where he runs a music school and museum of Eastern instruments. He plays the Cretan Lyra.

Postscript: I put this link on last night after the lady on Late Junction said it was a brilliant website. Well, it's not that good, just basic info. No sound clips, nothing about his museum, etc. You have to allow Pop-ups to see it too. But his music is great, you can often hear it on LJ.

Kinetic Etiquette in Connecticut

Not really about Kinetic Etiquette in Connecticut, of course. That was a line from the last in the series of Nebulous. You can hear it for a week at this link, then it will be gone. Not the funniest one, but very odd. Nebulous

Earth 2005 A.D.

I recently discovered a drawing I did some years ago (1990s?) of what I thought life would be like in the year 2005 A.D. My prediction was that Earth would be under attack from Space, but it would be OK (sort of) because by then we would have built our own robots to fight the Space Robots.
Sadly, I seem to have got it wrong to a certain degree on this occasion. But don't worry, I'm sure we will get invaded from Space quite soon. The only question is: Is our Robot Army up to scratch?

Greenbank views

St.Anne's church, parish of St Anne with St Mark and St Thomas, in St Leonard's Road, Greenbank.



Daisies out in the sun in Greenbank Avenue East

Martin Parr

Martin ParrWhile we're on the subject of Bristol artists, here's Martin Parr's website. He is a well-known photographer. His pictures are strange.They seem very "real", but I dunno, a bit too real to be really real, really.

Also webpage marred by terrible apostrophe-style blunder.

Richard Long

Richard LongText from the Homepage:

Richard Long. Artist.

Art made by walking in landscapes.

Photographs of sculptures made along the way.

Walks made into textworks.

Selected exhibitions and a list of solo exhibitions.
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He's from Bristol; didn't realise that. born in 1945.

The heat is unbearable

I'd like to complain about the heat. It's too hot.

3rd May

Nice day for taking photos. These are: 1.View of Bristol from Devon Road 2.Castle Park

George Monbiot

George Monbiot
Radical environmental campaigner and columnist.

Justin Quinnell

Justin Quinnell Bristol based pinhole photo specialist. These photos show 24 hours from inside his mouth (click on photo to see the full set). Great stuff. He also sells a ready made little pinhole camera for ten quid. And instructions on how to build different sorts of pinhole cameras from household objects.

Dollar Car Rental Coupons

They're happy because they eat Dollar Car Rental Coupons

Haircut

I went to the barbers today and had a haircut.

Er...that's it.

What more do you want to know? I went into the shop, the barber cut my hair, I paid him some money.
That's what usually happens in barbers shops.

Haven't you got something you need to be getting on with?






Are you still here? I mean, what do you want? The barber's shoe size? Sorry I didn't ask him. How much did I pay? Well, I think that's my business really. Why would you want to know?

If I tell you one slightly amusing thing about the barbers, will you go away?

On the counter was a bottle of liquid called "Barbercide". With a name like that it should really be for killing barbers, but I bet it wasn't.

OK? Now run along, there's a good person.