tinyswirl

“…but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly…. timey-wimey…. stuff.”

A while back, my Dad had reason to gaze upon this site (long story but basically I didn’t believe what my internet was telling me about the status of my hosting…) and told me, or at least words to that extent, that it didn’t exactly look fab…. (”fab” is my new most-used word, expect it to crop up a lot. It’s not, however, a word my Father would actually say.)

I’m starting to get sick of the look of it too, but nothing I can find looks right and I’m too busy with real life and other people’s bits of cyberspace to have time to do some redecorating.

I’ve gone completely fan-girl and purchased all of the last 3 series of Dr Who last weekend, when we were visiting the city. They were about half price so, in theory I saved myself about £110. I still hid the receipt/price tags from Himself. Not that he has any say over what I spend my money on – it’s just he hates Who and I would never have heard the end of it.

Of course I’m ploughing my way through the episodes I’ve missed. Top of the list – New Earth, as I needed some of the blanks filled in from Gridlock. I must say though, the more I see of Tennant, the more I appreciate him his acting. It’s actually a combination of his acting and Lis blogging about the show (although I do have to agree with Rose when she said “.Great hair… some really great hair.“.)

I finally got my Aylesbury Ducks a couple of weekends ago. Osguth and Jemima have settled in well (apart from going awol to visit next doors ducks the first time we let them out and leading to us building a fence at 11pm that night. Thank goodness we are down to virtually nil darkness at the moment). Jemima gave us an egg yesterday, which became my breakfast about an hour later…. Meantime we’ve got one bantam who’s eggs are inedible because she’s on antibiotics, another that’s laying eggs anywhere she thinks she can hide them, one gone broody and, as I write, sitting outside on about 9 eggs… and don’t even get me started on the non-bantams and the mallard ducklings.

At least the lambs are being reasonably well behaved.

It’s late. Another 6am start tomorrow, better head for the bed….

It feels very strange to no longer be a regular blogger, to no longer be appearing on blogrolls and contributing to the noise that is the internet. This blog is just generating white noise at the moment, so excuse me whilst I nudge the dial and the static tunes in to the sound of my “voice”.

It feels like my catchphrase right now is “things are a bit mad” as life has suddenly shifted from 1st to 5th gear and I’m struggling to keep up (how many metaphors can I fit into one blog entry, I wonder?) I’m sitting here listening to Smashing Pumpkin’s EP, Tonight, Tonight, which hasn’t graced my ears for about 3 years, on repeat and wondering where to start…

Well the big news at the Croft is that we now have livestock! 2 lambs (both ewes called Alice and Hotpot , 5 hens (Mildew, Petra, Melody, Betty and Twink) and a cockerel called Sputnik. I won’t bore you with photos but I’m enjoying looking after them all. I’m on a mission to get the chooks “trained” so that they’ll come to me and I can handle them without anyone getting too distressed. The lambs will follow us around the yard and when I’m taking them from their sleeping quarters to our garden (where they spend the day) I practically fall over them they walk so close!

Of course, food is always a good incentive….

Next on the list is ducks and pigs.

Seeing as it’s Saturday night there is absolutely no way I can go without mentioning the latest Dr episode. I’m becoming such a fangirl I even watch Dr Who Confidential – if I can do so without the boyfriend coming back into the room to accost the remote control (he hates all things Dr Who). I must admit I think it’s partly to do with David Tennant. Actually it is as I originally started watching the “new serieses” regularly because of a combination of Lis’s comments about the programme and my previous experience of Tennant’s acting (Casanova). I had seen some of the Eccleston episodes (partly because I wanted to see how Billie Piper fared, I think). Anyway, back to tonight..

I wasn’t sure about the whole idea of Agatha Christie being in an episode but actually I found the whole thing quite entertaining. Favourite bit had to be the “detox” scene, of course and I’m loving the bits of humour that are being injected into this series. The Dr always did get some good one-liners but someone is scripting some pretty good stuff for the sidekick too. From the clips of the next episode (not airing next week because of Eurovision, which is good, seeing as I’m out of the country!) it looks like it could well be of the same ilk as ”Blink”. ‘Tis all good….

I’ve been distinctly underwhelmed by my most recent “buy it because it sounds good on Last.fm” purchase. I should have known better because a CD I bought which featured the same vocalist (different band) doesn’t grab me much either. Oh well, it’s more tracks to block out the ambient noise that you get in an open plan office. A much more successful purchase (enough to make the thumbs do the texting) was The Con, which I bought at the back end of March, when I was in Edinburgh for the weekend (again…) Admittedly, I wouldn’t have initially even have found Tegan and Sara if it hadn’t been for the joys of the Last.fm (ie: “what my friends have on their most played list”). I’m well and truly hooked, and the only bad thing I’ve found about them is the attitude of some of their other fans. But that’s not worth getting into. I’ll probably just get a troll infestation!

I’ll just say… “It’s all about the music, people… get over it!”