Spectacular Jain Festival

Just a really nice slideshow from the BBC site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/4736362.stm

Janis Ian's Amsterdam

That song just means so much to me. Just got to me and helped me know that things are ok. I picked up a magazine that was lying around last week and there was an article about Will Young where he said something about how things would be much easier if he lived in Amsterdam. That's because the media aren't that bothered about a person's sexuality there. There's a feeling among a lot of people that a person is much more than whether they are straight/gay/ bi. And this is, ofcourse, the truth.

Ofcourse the song ties in a bit more of me, but why the hell does it matter. It has nothing to do with what I'm giving to the society I live in.

Thanks Janis.

Beautiful song.

Open Diary

I suppose I shouldn't really mention it on here!! But it's different because there's more privacy options so you can just write for yourself or a few people if you want to. It's also got smilies which are great!!

It has a different feel to it as well perhaps because people are treating writing there more like keeping a diary. Here is much more public too.

When I first found the site I read some of the diaries, which, ofcourse, I bookmarked and haven't been back to since. One really got to me. It's written by a teenage girl, and it's so descriptive and I was really into enjoying reading it. And, then, there was a post and I found out she suffered from depression at times and self harmed.

When I feel a bit better I'll go back and read the diaries I've saved to go back to. They were really interesting and good. And, as I mentioned, they seem to be written from a different perspective than most of the things I've found on here. The person said she found the people on the site friendly and more interactive than on LJ, which I guess is where she was before.

I was thinking about this again after someone mentioned finding the site at a board I've just joined. The person said she found the people on the site friendly and more interactive than on LJ, which I guess is where she was before. Not that I know because my diary isn't public so no one's got anything to read except for my first Hello complete with smilies, then ... nothing, cause I've gone undercover.

There're quite a few sites to blog and journal in around the web. I've seen quite a few and I doubt very much if I've found them all.

Well, up late last night, up late this morning

And almost ready to really get down and start sorting things out. Feeling better but not well yet. My muscles still aren't back to normal but I do feel a lot better. I'm very tired though and a bit muzzy.

Still, get on with the day and see how things go.

Continuing

to move around the net. Have just updated my profile and put my last five posts on show. Though actually they are just the last five from open boards rather than the last five I've posted. (on ezboard)

I still feel rotten but the inflamation and tightness is going. That's good because I've had another cold and it doesn't seem to have stopped the process, though I have felt a bit out of things today. Might be because I did too much yesterday.

Tomorrow must start getting the flat in order. They're getting sorted out down in Wales now and they'll soon be ready to move. Actually I'm going to ring them and ask if they want the flat furnished. If they do it'll make things a lot easier all round. I'm going to be holding things up a bit this end now, but if they'll take the flat furnished I can move out a lot quicker.

I was going to give everything away and they were going to bring up their furniture but looks like they can have what's here if they want it.

I just want to go. I'll miss some people from here a lot. I was thinking about that the other night and felt quite sad. But I just want to go back. I miss being there. Now, if only I could transport Amsterdam across to near Wimbledon ...............

Nothing to do with the problems here. Every town has it's small minded bigots etc. This one was no exception, but it has some very nice people too. I think "they" (de bigoted ones) are trying to engage their little minds on another problem that obviously they can't hope to understand or get right. And, just think I'll be leaving them too it.

Not enough porridge, or too much, I don't know.

Fortunately most people seem to have got things at least reasonably right and are fine with it all.

Bleurrgh

I've a headache and another cold. Though having said that the inflamation and stiffness and things is still going down. Could walk much better today.

There seems to be a lot of colds around here at the moment. Yesterday I almost ducked for cover in Smiths after hearing one megafantastic sneeze. Resisted but kept my ears and eyes open and just before I went to pay for the papers I saw someone else sneeze and so headed for another cash desk from where they were standing.

Still,don't feel too good, but, on the other hand, not too bad either.

In search of The Nevilles

I felt a bit better this afternoon and decided to go to Brum. Was too late to see the person I'd've liked to because she'd already left to collect her daughter from school. I wondered if she would have gone because she'd started working different hours in another part of the business which meant leaving earlier. Still, never mind,I'll get in touch to let her know I was there. Hopefully I'll be well enough to go out for lunch soon.

I was out of luck as far as The Nevilles went as well. Not doing so good really here, am I. I was too late to try HMV, but Virgin didn't stock their cds. So,will go and have a look on Amazon later.

Came back with a Sister Of Mercy compilation cd and one by John Fahey. Wonder where I got the last idea from!!!

John Fahey

http://www.johnfahey.com/



The Sisters Of Mercy

http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/


I used to be a big fan of The Sisters of Mercy.

And that probably says a lot.

But, then I was also a big fan of The Jesus and Mary Chain.


I was at the Chinese shop and was very taken by the new pseudo Delft china bracelets there. Brilliant!! Chinese Delft ying yang bracelets. The new flower rings were nice too. Not tulips this time though. Still you can't have everything. And, I have two of them.

Because I was in Brum late today I got to see the lovely light wands lit up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/your_birmingham/bullring/bullring_art.shtml

That picture doesn't do them justice. They're lovely to see. Here's a page with a picture of them in daylight. Maybe the two together will give an idea of how they look at night.

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/bullring03b.htm

They're light giant unearthly plant sculptures, with the lights as flowers and the metal plates as leaves.

Just beautiful.

There was snow on the ground on the way to Brum. Hadn't seen any here, though had been out earlier and there was a tiny bit of snow in the air but I hadn't seen any that had settled. But there was snow on the railway banks as we went into Birmingham.

De geheime eekhoorn

I used to think that about five people were reading my blog. But now I'm not so sure about this. It turns out that it might be nein, or so someone seemed to be suggesting when I asked them if this was true.

Not so secret then.

In fact when I asked someone else if they had any idea who the extra four people might be they seemed a bit surprized about where I had got this number from. I said that someone had thought this when I asked ........

Do you think about five people are reading my blog.

The answer back was

Nein. (sp??!!)

Nine!!!!!

Gosh, that's almost twice as many as I thought.

Today

I'm a bit better. Just got to wait for the inflamation to go down and it's a bit better today though I am very tired.

Was going to go into Birmingham but I thought better of it in the end. Anyway it was getting late.

Tonight before I turn in I'm wrapping up a largish turtle to send to Beach in Canada and hopefully I'll go and post it tomorrow. The rest will follow a bit later.

I Will Survive

D.I.S.C.O

Yes, I've been playing my disco hits compilation.

It's quite a long time since I've really got down to listening to a lot of this music. Well, to be honest, probably since it was released. Though there was a period which involved a Bee Gees mix LP for quite a long time.

Probably from K Tel or something like that.

Listening to the cds though I actually really like quite a lot of it.

Puts cds in pride of place on table.

It's getting late and I really should turn in now. Possibly not the thing to listen to last thing at night.

Zoink.

Links to de lemuures

I found these links while searching for something vaguely related on the web. They're different from what I'd found before cause I'd put something totally different into Search.

The first. Well, just before Xmas, certain lemuuries were going to put on a bit of a show around a single that had come out. Without breaking copywrite rules ofcourse. Someone had found a batch of cds and dvds that had been inadvertantly left in the depths of the deep forests of Madagascar.

Unfortunately, a certain lemuure came down with yet another stinking cold and things just drifted. Though all the ideas are still there waiting .................

This link brought a few of them back through the bleariness of yet another fr*cking cold.


http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0530-wildmadagascar.html


Woo hoo.


More links. This one says there's a webcam too, though I didn't try it. But here's the link.

http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/red_info.cfm


And some more. I saved them at the time because for some reason, probably to do with the cold de la jour, I didn't feel like putting them up. Or perhaps it was just surprize at coming up with these pages after what I'd put into search.

http://library.sandiegozoo.org/Fact%20Sheets/lemur_ring-tailed/Lemur.htm


Lots of links to pictures to click on at the bottom of this page

http://www.stormloader.com/lemur/ringtailed.html



And, that's it. I thought there were more than that.

Expect there will be sometime.

Prudence?

You've been listening to Siouxsie and The Banshees again haven't you Lemuure.

How did you guess.

Dear Prudence.

One of my favourite tracks.

Not bored, but just waiting .........

Just waiting to get better again. Actually I probably am bored. Tired and bored. Yeah, that's it.

I don't know how I managed to say that I'm not bored. Even porridge and pasta cooking is starting to lose it's excitement value.

Can you believe it? Ofcourse no-one promised that this wouldn't happen but it's still caught me by surprize. I thought here was something that, even when I'm feeling too ill to do anything else, would keep my mind occupied for hours even if I wasn't too interested in the practical side.

But, sadly, this isn't the case.

Cynical, Lemurre, huh?!!!

Travelling around ... and, hi, again ......

Well, someone's just popped in to say hi to me on the net who I used to know netwise a few years ago. Wonder if she'll remember me. I expect so. Notice that the last line of her very long biography is "Still crazy after all these years".

Pleased to hear it, that's what keeps us going, huh.

Dances off. Well, she's added some music to her bio too. Foot tapping stuff. Well, I suppose most music is for me to some extent but this has some great beat to it. Haven't the slightest idea what it is. It's not rock, more towards the easy listening side of things I guess.

She was once hard to find, but not so much now. That'll be more time spent on here I guess. Somewhere else to potter through and look round.

Today

Well, it's not been too bad. Not as good as yesterday which somehow was quite a pleasant day. Just rather achy today and got told I looked tired. Well, I'm not surprized.

Was pleased to see that you can watch that video clip at full size. Hadn't noticed that you could last night.

I'm not well, that's obvious, though I'm much better than I was. My foot's a bit sore but not too bad. The soreness is in a different place than before which I guess is good news because that means that what was wrong then must have healed. My foot was slowing me down today. I'd've been much more active if it wasn't for the fact that it is a bit sore. Maybe it's enforced rest again which can't be a bad thing. I'm much better at all this than I was when it first started.

Feeling better

Well, the cold hasn't lasted that long, not even a sniffle today and that's unusual. And I'm getting better all round. It's just the time it's taking. As the muscles recover from the inflamation and go back to how they were I get cramp and what feels like stitches in them, but unlike the cramps you get in your calf muscles sometimes it doesn't last long at all, so even though there can be quite a bit of it, it's not too bad. And at least I know it's for the good and it's just my muscles going back to how they were before all this happened.

My sleep's very broken but I think even though I wake up a lot I'm sleeping enough hours for me. But this is all very tiring.

Small video of The Party Ain't Over Yet

Ik heb een kleine video op de Party Ain't Over Yet

http://www.cp27.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/page2.html


I've a small video downloaded from this site which I found from reading a Dutch forum.

Colds

I've had another one!! But it's not too bad. Made my foot slightly sore again and I was a bit puffier, though at the same time my muscles still seemed to be easing up. I'm tired as well.

I met someone today who was all aches and pains and was complaining of stiffness and a sore head. I reckon he'd probably got what I've had. People have been complaining of tiredness too. So, it just looks as if there's a new bug doing the rounds here. I don't feel too bad all things considered. And my head's quite clear again.

Your system has recovered from a serious error

Now this was something to do with having my feet on the keyboard while I was on the phone. It was rather unnerving to watch strange data appearing on the screen and then the computer turning itself off.

I have no idea what happened. First time feet have been applied to the keyboard and to be honest I don't think it will be happening again.

Always use hands folks and maybe it's not a good idea to try and talk on the phone and be on the computer at the same time met de voeten*.

Only joking ofcourse.



*avec les pieds

Tongue in cheek

No wonder they are going on their Antepodean travels this year. I'm convulsed with laughter here after reading that board as the latest perceived slur on their heroes is reported.

Don't they notice anything similar about it all. That the people who are saying these things are almost convulsed themselves as the interest has grown.

It's like a joke that probably sends the hit rate soaring as everyone comes by to read the latest news.

If it was me I'd be leaving the country too. Because that is what I do. As people would say "They can see you going Lemuure". That is probably the general gist of it.

Yes.

Amsterdam

And I was thinking about going over to Amsterdam. And realised I was pleased that I'll be over before the end of May.

Before, I have to admit, I was thinking about it in rather an abstract way and thinking that I probably wouldn't be over til much later. But last night I was kinda starting to plan coming over.

Breakfast

Didn't get to sleep til the early hours again and it was because my muscles were moving. It seems to go into overdrive when I lie down to sleep. You'll be pleased to hear that I spent some of the time thinking about porridge.

And just how wonderful it is.

That was proved again this morning when I got up and headed for the kitchen without the usual sense of forboding at having to cook breakfast.

I washed the saucepan up from last night, eyed up the clean tea towel with glee and set about pouring the oats, soya milk and water into the saucepan.

Breakfast: 11.00 a.m.

So, I did get quite a bit of rest eventually.

Thing is I still feel tired. But not as tired as yesterday.

And it does lift during the day sometimes which is rather the wrong way round. But hopefully in time this will all be sorted out again.

Tired last night, tired this morning

Well, sometimes you wonder what sleep is all about as I've woken up just about as tired as I went to bed last night. I suppose if I had stayed up all night I would have been twice as tired though.

They tell me I've just got to let my body get on with sorting this out and that I'm going to feel quite tired at the moment.

So, I sit here eating my porridge though feeling rather as if the porridge has migrated from my tummy to my brain.

sleep

Well, I'm getting better. My muscles are easing back to how they were before I became ill. It's not a pleasant process but one I have to go through and it's leaving me feeling very tired.

At the moment I just wanna sleep.

So I'm going to have dinner and then hopefully go to sleep.

Metta Sutra

I was reading something on another site that had a connection to Buddhism and from that found this which is a pleasant read.

Metta Sutra

http://dharma.ncf.ca/introduction/sutras/metta-sutra.html

t'other post continued

........... and, ofcourse, politics


And other interesting subjects!!!

Boards

I clicked on quite a few boards who're out of public viewing to apply for membership.You just click and apply. I haven't got my last five posts up I notice, probably why some didn't reply as some ask you to. I thought I had because I used to but maybe I took it down when I started getting a bit more adventurous on ezboard and started roaming around a bit.

I've still got a few more to explore and they look good. Been back to the one I talked about on one of these blogs and thought that I wouldn't be posting enough for it to be worthwhile staying around. Ofcourse I go back and there're lots of threads I could happily post to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna give a big thumbs up to another board, Purple Reign.

Woot.

sore head bear

I am a bit of a sore head bear in different ways today. I have a sore head, not a bad headache but just a feeling of soreness and tenderness on the right side. It's making me feeling a bit out of things I think so am signing off for now.

Feministing

We can talk about bikes, rock and porridge.

It's great being a feminista.

Scheduled outage

We are informed that there's to be a scheduled outage soon.

So this time there'll be no surprizes.

Blogger!!!!!

One of the other bloggeroos isn't accepting posts at the moment and hasn't been for a day now. I can only hope that this means that we'll be getting the change-a-date option back soon for those posts you start and then leave for a week or so.

Have been resting for most of the day as I've got a bit of a chill again. Don't feel too bad all things considered and I do understand that this is down to me taking time out.

Potters off to get glass of water.

Has cooked and eaten a meal of pasta, beans and veggies. But, sadly forgot the garlic again. Seems the garlic is more in the mind than in the mouth at the moment. Thanks Mr Stoker but we have to eat it too it seems.*

Manyana, manyama




*ref: Dec. 5th 2005 post

Sigh

After our bit of brainstorming last night we will continue.

I have been discussing porridge on the new feminist board I belong to. And, now, as I move over to a spiritual one I find that one of the topics there is "Cereal". I am, ofcourse, going to have to ask if porridge can be considered a cereal.

Would you like cereal for breakfast this morning Lemuure?

Yes, please, I'll have porridge.


I think some people when they ask this question might not be counting on getting asked to make a bowl of porridge.


?

Well.......

If it's not one blog it's the other.

No need to worry about the previous night because the situation continues and posts are not being posted over at the other blog again.

I suppose I got a little hopeful after reading about the planet with an atmosphere similar to here

Porrige

Message boards can be quite fun. One of the latest that I've joined seems as if it will be quite a good time for everyone . The subjects can be light hearted. Or on the other hand, deep and heavy, shown by the fact that we've just had a conversation about porridge.

I take it you don't like your breakfasts then Lemuure.


Yes.