Friday, April 6

educational video

These two educational videos are probably only of interest to Embra bloggers who visit here. If you don't know how to copy and paste the links, ask Brian to do it for you.

bit.ly/yltCo5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TP-ZzKbXJk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wednesday, April 4

walkies, birds and trees

Nine mile (15km) walk yesterday, around yet another stretch of foreshore.

Three birds that live in different ways. A magnificent black thing with a flesh-tearing beak.




A long-beaked urban scavenger, probably originally designed for wading through molluscs and eating  them.



And the one that looks like a burnt-out Concorde is, I believe, a new caledonian shag.




Good skies. Splendid dead tree.










Weird tall solitary tree.




The cellmate standing beside a life-form akin to the lesser young Albert, originally spotted in 1970.


Monday, April 2

kif and me

The first half of the Kif book is a load of fun, but then it hits the wall with a hundred pages of scoring, shooting up, and cold turkey. Mind you, it’s probably appropriate that reader boredom should mirror the actual tedium of the smackhead treadmill.

The positive side that comes across is how the guy uses drugs to be able to work on in the studio, for days on end, obsessed. I’m a bit like that too – I get to work some mornings and can’t face doing anything, so I reach for the green tea. Then I lie on the floor until it kicks in. I'm lying there now in fact, nearly ready to do something.