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  • April 13th, 2007

    Zzzzz

    Well, as predicted playing Harry Potter very quietly wasn’t particularly effective.  So thanks to Liam for his suggestion – I will try that this evening.  This obviously provides opportunities for any malicious sly-plotters to get me to try strange and obscure sleep cures but I think Liam’s sounds quite safe.  Except I might have trouble getting up in the morning.  But then I don’t have to get up in the morning.

     Also QI is on tonight at 10pm on BBC2.  This may not help me sleep, but it will provide fantastic entertainment whilst I am awake.  It is a re-run of the last series – I was hopeful for a minute that it might be a new series, but that is still very good.  I think it is my best programme.  It is followed by the new series of Peep Show.  This is bad news at it is Ben’s best programme and my worst.  I can see it’s very funny but it just makes me cringe inside so badly.  But I have to get a bit immune to programmes before I can like them.  Took me months to like The Office so there is hope.

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  • April 13th, 2007

    13th April

    The KM is going to Joey’s Wood tomorrow at 12 O’clock to take some photos. They want to do an article on the trails and how KCC have messed everyone around. The more people there the better really.

    I played football at lunchtime today for the first time in ages. It was pretty fun. Before I was into riding I was into the guitar and before that I was into football. I guess I have a pretty obsessive personality. I was thinking it would be interesting to know what other people did before they rode. Write it in the book.

    Shaun Williamson .com has to be one of the funniest websites in the universe.

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  • April 12th, 2007

    Shark Adventure!

    The other theme which is likely to recur on my blog is sharks. I like sharks a lot. I’m not entirely sure why. I think it started when I was very small and saw Jaws. I was very frightened. What I like to do when I am frightened of things is to find out about them, so then I know. I am also frightened of capital punishment and so I have found out about that too. I am glad that amnesty international are trying to get it abolished. Interestingly, the trend is to get it abolished although a lot of people (most people?) think it should be reintroduced. It doesn’t help that the media make us really hate paedophiles and terrorists (rather than just hating them a bit). I think the best methods are probably hanging and the guillotine (I don’t think this gets used any more).

    Anyway, back to sharks. After I found out all about them I discovered that

    1. They’re not keen on eating people

    2. They are really amazing and a very good at what they do

    3. They are really beautiful and it must be fantastic to see a big one in real life.

    So, I am going to go and see some real ones in real life. Me and Ben are going to South Africa on the 19th May to go and see the great white sharks. We are going to the place they filmed the Planet Earth documentary bit on sharks, where they breach (leap right out of the water).

    I can’t quite believe it’s happening but I am very excited about it. I hope I come back with all our limbs.

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  • April 12th, 2007

    Not sleeping beauty

    This is my first blog entry in my new blog and it is about sleeping.  This is likely to be a recurring theme on this blog as

                                 1.  I like sleeping a lot

                                 2.  I am having trouble sleeping.

    So any remedies would be gratefully received.  At the moment I am trying listening to audio books in bed – sometimes this works but often it doesn’t.  I think maybe Harry Potter is just too exciting.  I like listening to it though.  It is Stephen Fry reading it which is really good.  Also, although I don’t think J.K.Rowling writes particularly well the key thing, it seems to me, is that she creates a world I enjoy being in.  That makes me want to listen to or read her books because it would be great to actually be in those books.  So even though her use of language is a bit limited at times, and at others sounds like she’s been looking through a thesaurus for long words, I still like the books.

     But they’re not helping me sleep.  I think the next thing to try is having it on really quietly.  Only then I might be listening so intently that I’m even less likely to fall asleep.

     Goodnight.

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  • April 12th, 2007

    12th April

    At this time of year lots of new faces start to appear at the woods. Without fail you can predict that people who have been at the skatepark all winter will suddenly appear that the jumps with their bikes and a sheepish look on their face, ready to ride your, still slightly soft, jumps. I don’t have any objection to sharing my hard work with people who are prepared to pick up a shovel when its wet and lend a hand, especially if they have the initative and motivation to build their own trails. Sharing something makes it more fun. I don’t have a problem with people coming down to watch or chat. But am I the only one who thinks that it is incredibly rude for people to turn up at the jumps who have never so much as lifted a shovel and expect to ride? Am I just being a trail Nazi about this?

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  • April 11th, 2007

    11th April

    What is it with bands whose names begin with K? The Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Klaxons. What is their obsession with making horrible ugly shouty music. And the “lyrics”. Look at the words to “Golden Skans” by The Klaxons. When I hear this on the radio I have no way of telling what on earth they are saying. It’s impossible to make the words out. Then when I found out I couldn’t believe what drivel it was. How has music this bad become so popular? I can see nothing good in it.

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  • April 10th, 2007

    10th April

    Series 4 of Peep Show is due to begin on Friday 13th April at 10:30pm, on Channel Four..

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  • April 9th, 2007

    9th April

    A rabbit. A jump.

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  • April 8th, 2007

    8th April

    Just two pictures.

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  • April 7th, 2007

    7th April

    I am pleased with this picture.

    I am looking at buying a new camera and I found out that the human eye sees twice as much green light as red and blue. To replicate this cameras have to have twice as many green sensors as red and blue ones. So a normal picture like this actually looks like this.

    Today I saw a blind man with tatoos. Maybe he knows what the look like from the shape of the pain. Why do tatoos last forever if your body regenerates every 7 years?

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