wellskelpt's blog

Oh, the summer-time has come
And the trees are sweetly bloomin',
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather;
Will ye go, lassie, go?

Pluto is a planet no more. It's gone. Well, it's still out there but just not recognised as a planet anymore (It's a terist conspricy I tells ya!). Pluto, I lament your passing. So we now have eight planets. Next time you have a pub quiz that asks how many planets in the solar system you can tell them NO!!!! there's only eight, I demand my points you idiot. If your child comes home from school saying they learned about the 9-planets go and slap the teacher saying NO!!!! you shall not teach my child inexactitudes, Try and keep up you muppet!

Tom and Jerry are, by far, the funniest cartoon double act. At least from a slap stick laugh out loud point of view. Dangermouse and Penfold, now there is a funny duo although the humour there is more subtle: a droll humour as we would say at home. Tom and Jerry are in the news again. Censored. Can you believe it? Aparrantly cartoons depicting Tom rolling and smoking cigarette and another showing a cigar smoking character are no longer to be shown. never mind the smashing and bashing of Jerry or the hammering and pool cue swallowing exploits of Tom.

Enough of the deep, serious blogs. Time to lighten up a bit.

Is it just me or is Lego Starwars 2 looking and sounding like a lot or fun? I didn't play the first one but the follow up has got me interested. I love lego and I love starwars so it's a winning combination. I'm looking forward to my son growing old enough to play with lego. I'm already picking out sets I want....for him ***cough***

I also hear that BA has banned all flights out of UK and US airports.

"I aint getting on no plane, crazy fool"

Regarding the dream i mentioned in my last Blog, I have given it some thought, off and on over the last couple of days. Not that I'm neurotic or anything. "I'm not mad, just angry" (bonus points if anyone knows the film I paraphrased that from). Like most dreams you can't take things literally so the sides in conflict were not important just the fact that there was conflict. Two waring factions representing the myriad of conflicts around the world. I think it weas significant that I was in the middle between them and my family was the target.

More than 15 Million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost one or both parents to HIV and AIDS by 2010. That is a frightening statistic. As a relatively new parent I find these statistics and other sorts of images and reports of disadvantaged children more unsettling than before my son was born. I project it on to my family. I hate the idea of my young son fending for himself in a third world environment. In fact, there was a picture on the front page of one papers a few days ago showing a 10-month old baby clinging to it's mother in the rubble of a destroyed Lebanese house.