Ah, my dear friend Alysa is back from Paris, where she spent a wonderful five days with her boyfriend...oh, how jealous I am! Also my other dear friend Ben "Ben G Ship" has returned from an activity holiday in the south of France, where he got to kayak down the Ardeche, or something.

Anyway, I'm knackered. It's late (23:21 according to my computer clock) and I'm tired...bah, I'm having some buddies over for breakfast tomorrow and then we're going walking, hopefully. There's quite a nice footpath near my house, called the Saxon Shoreway, and it should be lovely weather tomorrow too!

I just heard that if you have a generator and you generate too much energy to use, you can sell it to the National Grid. How exciting.

Who else likes smoked salmon? with scrambled egg? on brown bread toast? mmm, me too

Oooh you should all listen to The Now Show, on BBC Radio 4...for our international readers, a podcast is available on the website.... Haha, I'm listening to it now, it's so good!!!

Also, you should all read this article on glass, and the urban myth about it being a supercooled liquid or something...
Ben has been making me feel like I should be more intellectual and science-y, and this is something I've been thinking about for a while.

You ever heard the story that glass is actually a liquid, proven by the 'evidence' that glass in the windows of reeeeeeally old houses is thicker at the bottom than at the top?? Apparently this is actually not true; although the window panes are thicker at the bottom, this is due to the manner in which the panes were made. At the time, glass could only be made through the process of glassblowing, which involved making a bubble of glass and then cutting it and laying it flat. This always caused one edge to be thicker than the other, and for reasons of aesthetics, the glaziers would put the thicker part at the bottom, to give the window more sparkle (apparently...I don't know, do I, I'm only an unemployed ex-student!).

I think the article will explain better. Also is quite interesting!

Oh, and Clanny, the mp3 of me singing should be up soon, but my friend and I have to record some more duets, and then she's waiting on someone else to be available to sing with her...so complicated!! But be assured that I shall post as soon as the track is available.

Kisses and love and hugs xxxxxxxxx