What a holiday!

Originally uploaded by nilexuk.

I have missed the first morning’s reheasal because driving down to Royal Holloway, the choir digs, last night, the car started playing up again. Exactly the same symptoms as last month: toxic fume filter light. Juddering. No acceleration.

I am not pleased.

It has taken me all morning to sort out a tow truck and a garage that can look at it before the end of the week when I have to drive to Hereford.

Grr.

Whole point of forking out obscene amounts of money was to try and get something a little more reliable. I’m not impressed.

Swans

Originally uploaded by nilexuk.

Swans on the Thames. I never knew they had such enormous feet.

Please tell me this isn’t really the KPMG anthem!

KPMG
We’re strong as be
A dream of power and energy
We go for the goal
Together we hold
To our vision of global strategy

There’s a much worse children’s choir version, too.

EDIT: it does seem to be real, but also old. It made the Observer in 2001.

EDIT2: Don’t miss the Teutonic Master Mix, the Hard Rock Version and the Jungle Mix, all mislinked here.

Must… log… off…

It’s just panned out that this year, I’ll have been to three Royal residences.  We camped in Sandringham over Easter.  We had the great privilege of attending a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace (I know I’ve still not told you about that yet) and this summer – in just a few weeks, in fact – the choir I sing with are in residence at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

The music list is now here.

weather060720

Originally uploaded by nilexuk.

It’s been scorchio all week. Blazing sunshine, too hot to work.

Next week the trend looks to continue.

But for Nottingham Lib Dem’s Bring’n’Share picnic in Wollaton Park this weekend — rain, according to the BBC long range forecast.

Bah.

Precarious Fudge

Originally uploaded by nilexuk.

F has an alarming tendency to sit at the very top of this first floor window to get the air and menace small birdies. P thinks he is in imminent danger of losing his footing and plunging to his death, but I think he has more sense. Since we also have an insect problem – large buzzy things and small whiney things have a tendency to come in at dawn and startle us awake – we’re vaguely thinking of getting some sort of screen.

Berries

Originally uploaded by nilexuk.

Something in my garden has berries on it. I wonder if they’re edible? They’re very hard at the moment, and they don’t look like anything I’ve ever eaten before. I don’t recall seeing any fruit at all in the garden when we first looked round it (now almost a year ago! Eep, time flies!)

OK, now I have one or two other video clips I might like to share, like this one.

Again, upside down! Why? Why can’t I embed googlevideo objects in WordPress posts? Why?

So many questions.

EDIT: Ryan has put me right on at least one thing — upload the 3GP file directly to GV and not only is it quicker, it’s also the right way up. Here’s a new link to the clip posted earlier.

Aargh.  1am.  Not normally a problem, but tomorrow I have to be up at 4am for a local by-election in Hucknall.

I will tell you all about the Garden Party before too long and I will also let you have some more cat pictures.