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Stripey Skies
April 22nd, 2010 | 
Author: I know I’ll be in a minority, but I have enjoyed the few days without seeing a plane in the sky. Especially since the skies have been cloudless at times, it’s very rare these days to stand outside and see a clear blue sky without a cloud or vapour trail in sight. Last night I stood in the garden and looked at the night sky, it was obvious flights had begun again in earnest with the sky crisscrossed with trails glowing in the moonlight. This morning as I was out for a wander and looked up, the clear blue had vanished, stripey skies were once again above us.
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Voyagers 15th Anniversary…
It probably doesn’t mean much to many people, but to those that are addicted to fantasy & sci-fi books like me you’ll be glad that Voyager are still out there enthusiastically publishing these genres, let’s hope the next 15 years are as good as the first 
Oh yes, here’s there celebratory anniversary trailer.
Perhaps
Today I will find an outlet for all that creative energy that bubbles and boils inside. Now perhaps is an interesting word, well it is to me, according to www.etymonline.com the word comes from 1528 and is formed from M.E. per, par “by, through” + plural of hap “chance”. So I will through chance do something to release the creative flow, but maybe I’d better leave it until the morning… …okay, procrastination (1540s), from the Latin procrastinationem “a putting off,” noun of action from procrastinare “put off till tomorrow,” from pro- “forward” + crastinus “belonging to tomorrow,” from cras “tomorrow,” of unknown origin. Quite apt really
Perhaps I will sketch that landscape which drags me from reality and into those quiet Country lanes of my mind.
Perhaps I will paint another scene from Tolkien, as my mind is never far from Middle Earth these days.
Perhaps I will continue that short story that has been niggling away in my head for far too long.
Perhaps I will make and another small animation; well I know it’s called stop motion, but it can be all stop and not go.
Perhaps I will design that online gallery of mine, the one I started four years ago an got no further than 
Garden Buzz
There’s not much to see there yet, but it’ll grow like our garden… garden buzz.
Blimey, he’s old!
I can remember, not vividly I admit, sitting in a classroom as a twelve or thirteen year old thinking to myself “blimey, he’s old!” Why would I be thinking this, and why is it so relevant to me now?