A fellow colleague in MSD has just released an EP!! Think KT Tunstall, Sarah McLachlan et al…

So anyway, her tunes will be available through iTunes soon! Meanwhile I am soooo getting a copy (original and maybe signed if I can twist her arm) before she gets UBER famous?! :loopy: anyhooo to slightly paraphrase her myspace description she grew up surrounded by folk music, which is so very often the best pedigree for great and lyrical musicians.

You are better off heading over to her site right now! Go on… I’ll still be here when you come back don’t worry?!

….ah, you’re back took you time didn’t you? I’ve had tea, and watched two episodes of Lost!! So, hopefully you agree with me, that this little gem is a keeper, and a very talented young lady indeed, I’ll be enquiring at work tomorrow whether she does any live gigs, so that I can go and offer my support.

In other news..? LESS THAN 10 DAYS TILL BRISBANE??!!!?!!

Oh!! And CONGRATS to Alan Crowhurst (one of my longest standing friends since Primary School?!!) who just got married to Abby Gidman (now Crowhurst ) I wish you both all the happiness in the world, and do try and come to visit NZ sometime, so that I can properly congratulate you two!

I refer of course to a recent Guardian Article which highlights the amazing career of Peter Higgs, who postulated the existance of a particle which if proven to exist would back up his theory about why matter as we know it has mass…

It seems CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is near completion, this will be the largest particle accelerator in the world, and will basically accelerate particles to near the speed of light and collide them with each other….see? Does what it says on the tin! Who said physics was complicated eh…?

Anyhooo - this seems to be the best equipped location to prove or disprove Higg’s hypothesis regarding mass, ironic given CERN’s origional misgivings regarding his work.

This is all rather exciting?! Given that I have grown up in a world changing at exponential rates from microchips, and microwaves to nano-technology and playstation three’s! It’s seems we are reaching the edges of some boundaries that only a few years ago seemed insurmountable. In fact if you check out the pictures of the new CERN accelerator in Switzerland you’d be forgiven for thinking you were looking at the set of the next Star Trek movie!

I await the results of these breathtaking experiments going on with hope and excitement for the future. For those of you wondering where this tangent came from in my blog….I spent a couple of years studying Engineering Physics at university - and whilst I didn’t stay until the end through disolusionment with the course and it’s structure at the time, I remain an interested bystander in the subject.

Move over Bad Taste Bears?! Move over iTasers! We now have the ultimate in novelty toys. Road Kill Teddies! The idea’s an amazingly simple one, which has the ability to give any mild mannered “grown-up” with some modicum of a sense of humour hours of endless FUN! :devil:

It’s such a top idea for a gift, that’s just a little bit different and interactive too!! Yup, unzip that sucker and pull those innards out?! As if that’s not enough each character available has their own story to tell. If you don’t believe me, then head on over to their website and check em out :happy: