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Archive for November, 2009

Today I am feeling…really tired but better about things than i have been

This week…i have been the recipient of a lovely gift that staves off the drowning for a while

By next week…I will have been paid and all the money will have been spent on bills again

Did you know…On this day in 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Miscellaneous other things include…drinking hot water rather than tea is not only cheap but quite nice and it’s healthy

Blog of the week is SoMi Speaks

Recommended Band of the week is Elbow

Elbow are an British alternative rock band. Members of the band first played together in 1990 at The Corner Pin pub in Ramsbottom, Bury, a borough of Greater Manchester. The band currently retain their original line-up of lead vocalist and lyricist Guy Garvey, guitarist Mark Potter, keyboardist Craig Potter, bassist Pete Turner and drummer Richard Jupp. Over the band’s 12-year career they have released four studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK. The band is named after a line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective; a character (Philip Marlow) says that the word “elbow” is the most sensuous word in the English language, not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it.

Acclaimed for their innovative sound and front-man Guy Garvey’s evocative candid lyrics, Elbow have received vast critical acclaim and been endorsed by major artists Radiohead, Coldplay, Blur, R.E.M. and U2 despite minor commercial success during much of their career (The Velvet Underground’s co-founder John Cale selected Elbow’s “Switching Off” as one of his eight chosen records on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs radio programme). Since winning the 2008 Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid, commercial success is finally beginning to match Elbow’s critical acclaim and status among fans.

and Finally

That i have a Reviews blog page for your titillation

Just up my review of The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge. If you like historical fiction and historical fact you’ll love this.

Go over and look at the blog…thanks

The delectable LA living Jenn of Free and Flawed is only giving away a spanky new laptop on her blog.

What are you waiting for, go over there and enter RIGHT NOW!!!!

absolutely nothing at all that is blogworthy. I still have £0 money, so i haven’t been out or doing anything or anything else.

In good news the dog seems to be better. i think if he’s fine tonight i will believe he’s really ok

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
WE SHALL NOT SLEEP,
THOUGH POPPIES GROW
IN FLANDERS FIELDS.