Song of the Day

Stars (from Les Miserables)

There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face

He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Lord
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As Lucifer fell
The flame
The sword!

Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night

You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!

And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!

Lord let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by the stars!

NORAD Santa 50th Anniversary

2005 marks the 50th year that the NORAD defence system will be used to track Santa on his journey on December 24th.

Promotional video

Anyone with kids might find it an amusing diversion...

Christmas Shopping

Hee, I love Christmas shopping.

 

*watches everyone recoil in horror*

 

I'll admit I did do a fair amount of it online this year (Amazon does have it's uses) but there isn't anything quite like shopping in the cold December air to get you in the mood.

 

Bath has the Christmas Market again this year; about a hundred stalls from local shops and craft places interspersed with sellers of hot chocolate, roasted nuts and other warm snacks.  The people running the stalls have the right mentality for it - cheerful and talkative - and since frequently are the craftsmen themselves.

 

Sure, it isn't on the same scale as those in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, but it's easier to get too, and I can keep going back.

 

The only thing missing this year was the snow!

Curses

The ol' laptop needs a new hard disk, it would seem. A couple of
uber-Geeks at work and PC World's resident geeky techie person
couldn't get it working quickly, so the whole thing is in the shop for
a few days.

Phooey.

Which means limited email, no board and no blog. Well, I can post to
my blog via email and can read comments but can't read anyone elses.

Double phooey.

Message from Indy

I'm having a minor computer crisis with the laptop at the moment,
hence my absence from the board and important things like that.

See you all soon, my friends.

*wanders back to laptop holding hammer and wearing a calculating
expression on his face*

Indy's new place...

...or perhaps not. 

Stourhead Lake

View across the lake and bridge toward the Pantheon.

Despite Bristol being fogbound, and thick fog for most of the 30 minute journey, Stourhead was bright sunshine.

Stourhead Garden

 

Fowled-up landing

That's a frozen lake (okay, thin ice admittedly) at Stourhead.

And that's a duck.

He now knows that although you can land on sheet ice, you don't slow down all that quickly and you end up looking a right ducks arse to any one wandering past.

And I didn't even have any bread for him.

Wasted Beauty

Wasted Beauty must be one of the most creative website I have ever seen. The artwork and animations are beautiful and the background music is very subtle.

Take a look, you'll see what I mean.