Other uses for your running shoes

Worth a look at new Nike advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hNypys7Bs

Currently stuck in Carribean with no confirmed return flight - so making the most of the sun and sea. Having fun with a new Vivitar digital underwater camera - £35 from Amazon -




and swimming with rather friendly Hawksbill turtles ..




We may never return ...

The joy of air travel

Flying from Gatwick today - didn't start well - got to airport at 6.30 in morming only to find that I had left 1 passport in scanner at home - fortunately I had read flight time wrong and we were a mere 4 hours early for flight - the day was going to be a long one.
Watched normal selection of mediocre films - even the Ian Drury one failed to excite

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSobvm2nR8I

am more excited to see the new film Oil City Confidential

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSobvm2nR8I

This is Julien Temple's last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970's. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury, Joe Strummer in The Future Is Unwritten and focuses on Canvey Island band Dr Feelgood

My favourite was always 'She does it right' - here is a great video of Wilko explaining how to play it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyr__kGhUC0&feature=related

Bloggers last seen bird watching ...

50 guitars

The LA times magazine has come up with its 50 top guitars

www.latimesmagazine.com/2009/06/50-guitars.html

My top 3 are :

Probably says more about me than the guitars ...



and finally ...

Music matters

Sigur Ros

www.whymusicmatters.org/

John Martyn

Rock and roll birds

Marathon training continues apace, or at a slow pace, depending on the day.

Much more interesting is the recent spate of amazing birds in the news.

The first was the Attenborough piece on the Australian Bower bird which specialises in pimping its nest to the very highest standards ...



See the video for more tips on how to decorate your own nest ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbWJPsBPdA

Even more fun is the art installation at the Barbican featuring headbanging Zebra Finches

Turn it up loud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg




Woke up this morning

Got them zebra finch blues ...

I don't want to go to Delphi

Still not running on Sundays due to a thumb injury in the ranks so we took ourselves to a real ale pub on friday night to put the world to rights.

Discussion inevitably turned to various holidays shared and, in particular, one touring Greece as students with no money and very little clue - for some reason we had thought it a great idea to do our hiking and youth hosteling trip in August when Greece is at its hottest - highlights included severe sun stroke, getting caught short on top of the Acropolis, on the Olympic running track and in The Temple of Apollo, being woken up early in the Lord Byron youth hostel by the manager playing "Que Sera Sera" on his accordion, badly, and having to suffer terrible Greek food wherever we went.




A memorable day should have been our tour around the ancient ruins of Delphi, but my abiding memory is the Elvis Costello hit of the time - "I don't want to go to Chelsea" , adapted to refer to Delphi.

Anyway here is the video for you to sing along to ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwKx_Umqoc