Mr Sting

Watched a bit of telly last night. George Galloway was on newsnight talking about the justification for the invasion of Iraq. As was Claire Short.
They were talking about how the British govt lied about W.O.M.D. as an excuse for the war as opposed to regime change.
The reason for the war was that Saddam was a jeopardy to the wests oil supply. And needed to be replaced. The hundreds of thousand dead were collateral damage. The leaders have secured there objectives and can now reap the rewards from their cooperate chums. Blair converted to Catholicism as soon as he left office so can even confess away the gore and war grime that his immortal soul must have been encrusted in.
Everybodys happy..
Watched a clip of Sting being savaged by Paxman. Sting was on about Global warming and Paxy asked him if he ever felt weird talking about this when he has homes all over and flies a lot? Sting said "Oh come on Jeremy, you can't blame celebrities for causing Global warming".
Paxman said; "I am not accusing celebrities of causing global warming.I am merely accusing you of hypocrisy".

Thermal underwear

On Saturday we were driving in Hampshire, near Stockbridge. So we had to have a quick dip in the River Test.
There was still frost in the hollows all around, yet we were undeterred.
We stripped off quick and were in ,in a flash. I swam hard as I could against the flow for about ten seconds. Then out and into the uberchill of a January afternoon..
My son even picked up a wee leech.
We only had our undies on, so that is pretty hard core innit.

Unleash the Feral

Today me n my lift buddy tried to get to work. The snow wasn't to bad but the traffic was getting nowhere.
So today I am enjoying our snow event..
Am reading a power full book by Jay Griffiths, called Wild..
She talks about the way that modern Capitalist Christian culture has tried to neutralise the wild in the world. And the feral that is in us all..
She uses the Cee. you .next .Tuesday. word with deliberate effect. She ignores the taboo and destroys the sexist/ sexual aspect of an extremely graphic word.
Hairy Baz and I celebrated our feral with a lovely snowy walk earlier on.

Crinkle crags adventure

On Monday we were up very early. We drove up to Langdale and parked next to the Old Dungeon gill hotel. We were huffing at the cold as we got our boots and coats on before setting off up the valley.
The valley was full of frost, and frost covered sheep, lovely Herdwicks. All fluffy and smiley.
The yomp up the valley side really got us warmed up. The sun was spilling into the valley bowl and casting its sunbeams through the crags and into the dale below.
Once onto the ridge we enjoyed a very sunny day, walking amongst the crags and looking back down into the green pastures below ,across to scafell and all the way back to Morcambe bay ashimmer golden perhaps thirty miles away.

Shaking off the Black dog

At the start of this week I was dead miserable. I just couldn't shake it off.!
But, I kept on taking young Basil out for his walks..I kept on being cheery with the people that I met..
A telephone conversation with an old pal really left me down on Tuesday..So..I got a bit pissed while watching an amazing documentary about Black holes..And it put it all back into perspective..
I had a good long chat with football Scouser lee, while the two dogs romped and chased this morning. And We are off to the Thai, for lunch with Ma n Da in a bit..
You've just got to chip away at the Black dog with as much low level Ecstasy as you can..

Enjoying Halloween

We cooked some chili and we carved some pumpkins. We had some pals over and we drank a bit of wine while the kids went off Guising into the night..
The pumpkins were placed outside the house to scare off any evil , and to welcome any neighbourhood children. Many came along, had some sweets and had their costumes admired..
It is one of the highlights of the year in K,worth..
What can seem like a bit of a frusty town at times, drops its guard and people give their easiest smiles.
My little Bloke dressed as some kind of Caledonian military zombie..

Art for arts sake

Recently I have been fiddling about with sculpture..I am interested in trying to manifest dark energy. The way I have tried to show it in this form, is in the way it has been sliced and interrupted.
The form I imagine as a billet of plasma..The annihilation affect of the dark energy has sliced it into three pieces. I am in the process of having five forms cast in bronze and maybe steel..
I am also working on a separate wooden one.