International Global No Facebook Day 2009

I do believe it is Global International no Facebook Day today. I certainly joined a group, just wondering if I got the right day. Managed to remember not to log onto Facebook, hoorah!

Escape From Facebook (explaining a former facebook status by using 3 dimensions)

Trying to explain a joke....

Desperate Photoblogging (part four?)

Perhaps now is not the time to rant about noise pollution….

For a while alas the connection lead for my Kodak Easyshare C1013 was missing, managed to find it in very partial tidy up of parts of my flat (aka The Swamp). So some experimental pics

Here is a supermarket trolley from Tesco that has “conked out/bought the farm”



Bloody Students! Respect though Kirkstall Breweries is a long way from Tesco.



And this would make a wonderful Absolutely Northern! L S Lowry. Like Ebbw Vale in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry where I was briefly a volunteer).



And this is me.

Facebook exercises part 2, fun with the MP3 player

for those of you not on Facebook (yes it sucks but alas a channel of communication that I am rather dependent on in a world full of poor communication....)

Had a bit of a problem with this one. Think my larger 1 gig MP3 player has no shuffle button or none I could find. Had downloaded everything from my old half gig player first of course....

instructions read:-

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

my answers were....

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Your Hurting Kinda Love- dusty

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Come into the Light- Bliss

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Spirit of the Mountain -Midori

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Anthem of the USSR (sung in English Translation by Paul Robeson)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
I'm coming Home Again - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton

WHAT IS 2+2?
Pagan Born - Inkubus Sukkubus

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
YMCA - Village People

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I Can't Make it All Alone - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Internationale - In Spanish

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Evening Star - Kevin Kendle

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING:
Yesterday When I was Young - Dusty

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL
Oxygen - Jean Micheal Jarre but played by the London fantasy orchestra

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST:
This Love - Bliss

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I'll Be Waiting - Bliss

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Naked - Bliss

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?:
Thaxted/Jupiter - Elgar but likesay by London Fantasy Orchestra

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Grace - Bliss

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?:
Anthem of the United Federation of Planets

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Om Shanti - Bliss

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?:
O Fortuna - Carmina Burrana/Orff but London Fantasy Orchestra

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?:
England Arise! - Edward Carpenter (instrumental)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Sunrise - Bliss

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?:
How Can I Be Sure - Dusty

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?:
I Will Come to You - Dusty

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Chi Mai - London Fantasy Orchestra original Ennio Morricone

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?:
Some of Your Lovin - Dusty Springfield

Shameful and shameless photoblogging with maybe a bit more.. (part three in what may or may not be an occasional series….)

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Here in Leeds we have the Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Met, a splendid firm indeed! Went to one of the public lectures. Good to see corporate advertising.



Said lecture was on public art, and the Leeds Brick Man versus The Angel of The North or the Angel of the North versus the Leeds Brick Man. Down on the compost heap of England the Angel of The South is under construction. It will be bigger because they feel a certain need down in the Sarf to overcompensate of course.

I do wonder however about the Black Dyke Band. Aren’t any of them Bruvvas? They all seem white…



Then up the road to another University.



It’s that time of the month.



Ok I am just playing with my camera



Eligo In Suma Pontifico

Hasta La Victoria Siempre!/Meet The New Boss

A long and heroic pilgrimage to Kirkstall Abbey.

Some quick photoblogging. Jess not appearing as she is shy or I think she said she was… Oh well she can upload to her travel blog. Hi Jess!

Inside the Abbey Steeplehouse.



Looking up! Oh I do like this shot…



More of the same I think.



The lighting effects I am particularly pleased with…



The Cloister



From the Cloister



And when you know where to look…..



Really must learn how to blog in a hurry….

Down on the Farmers Market

In Britain if you want to buy a farmer you go to a farmers market. If you want to buy a farmers market you go to a farmers market market. And if you want to buy a farmers market market you're being silly