This isn’t meant to be aired until next week, but for some reason it’s on 4oD now!

So excited…

The beginning of Fly Bikes Uno BMX film is probably my favourite (non trails!) BMX video of all time, mainly because of the music. For the longest time I have been unable to find out what the music is. I emailed Fly to find out but they didn’t know what it was – only that it was from Sergios’s ipod. I used Shazam which told me that it was “The Decant Session” by Yann Tiersen, but that is only 47 seconds long – not long enough.

Then today I found the rest of the piece. It’s part of the “Goodbye Lenin” soundtrack, by Yann Tiersen but Fly reordered the tracks and I really like their order, so I made a spotify playlist of video:

Fly Bikes – Uno

If this doesn’t want to make you be in a band then I don’t know what will:

Maybe this:

I have had a busy day today and I am feeling a bit tired.  However, there was something that made it feel much more worthwhile.  I did an assessment with a child today at one of the schools I support and afterwards I met the child’s mother.  It was actually really good because all she wanted was to understand what she could do to help her child.  She also asked very intelligent questions which does tend to make it more interesting – she was good at seeing to the heart of the issues, but the main thing was how interested and keen she was to help.

You may find it surprising that this doesn’t happen to me more often.  It does happen quite often but it’s really surprising how many parents don’t seem all that interested.  It would be really useful to understand why that is; maybe they are nervous of strange professional people, or maybe there’s something wrong with how we invite parents to come to talk about things or something.  I really like it when parents bother me because then I can do my job a lot better, and otherwise I have to try to bother them just a bit, which is not always quite so good.

I suppose another problem might be that they have to work so then they can’t come and talk to me at school.  I don’t think that’s true for all parents though.  The thing is it makes a lot of difference to their child if they do come as then they know what they can do at home.  I suppose some people get that from my reports but I suspect that’s not true for all that many. 

If you click on this button every day then people who wouldn’t be able to have a mammogram get one free.  I’m hoping I’ve been clever enough for you to be able to click right here and do it so you don’t even have to go to another website. 

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2

Here’s a challenge for you – find some more of these (I think there’s a hungersite and one for free books) and I will put them on too.  Then I can click them every day. 

I have been thinking about how sometimes it can seem like there seem to be expectations that you should do lots of things.  We have quite a lot of friends who are away seeing people or doing things really most weekends or maybe every weekend.  I think this is ok if that is what you like.  I don’t really. 

What I like doing is having a bath and reading a book and seeing Ben and walking in the woods and thinking and doing music.  I also like swimming.  So I think people might think I am very boring.  I don’t care because I like it and that, I think, is all that matters.

This is an interesting thing I have found out today.  I have never seen a baby pigeon.  This is because pigeons grow very quickly and stay in their nest whilst they are growing.  So they look like adult pigeons even when they are in their nest.

 Homing pigeons are pretty clever as they can spot land marks from high up and find their way even across the atlantic.

Apparently, it used to be believed that a pigeon could suck poison out of wounds with it’s back end and were used to try to treat adder bites.  I do not expect this was effective.

Last summer we sailed across the channel to Guernsey and on the way a pigeon landed on our friend’s hand.  This was quite surprising and distracted Ben from being sick.  It was a very tired pigeon and sat in our boat until we got to Guernsey.  We think it was having trouble with the wind because it couldn’t really fly against it very easily.

However, I still do not really like pigeons.