tinyswirl

So I was thirty back at the beginning of last month and I didn’t ‘blog about it. I really have got out of the swing of things… I even made the resolution to take a photo for each day of my thirty-ness – which went out of the window even before the end of day one, when I didn’t have time because I was running around like a mad thing…

However, study is over for this year, and the nights are most definitely a lot longer (won’t be long before the sun barely leaves the horizon up here) so I’m probably about to hit you with an onslaught of blogging. Also, I’m going to try and take more photos this coming year, purely because I enjoy it and like looking back at them!

It’s frustrating that the net filters mean I can’t Scrobble at work, else my Last.fm chart would look a fair bit different. To be fair though, I think the top album for the past week would still be the same. It’s not exactly a new release but I got the Garden State soundtrack for my birthday and I love it more with every listen (even if it does have Cold Play on it.) It’s a very good “listening to while I’m working” album and I especially like (and it surprises me that I did) the Bonnie Somerville track at the end.

Another birthday present I’ve enjoyed at work is Details by Frou Frou. Boy complains it’s a bit samey (he got it from my Amazon wishlist for me) but I like it. Although I must admit Psychobabble freaks me out after I recieved an unsolicited phonecall last month (How did you get this number…).

Anyway, battery is running low on the laptop and I want to go and watch a crappy film on the tv.

Until tomorrow!

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!”