So this is still active!

Afte completely forgetting about this blog, it turns out that it is still alive, and well.

Hey Hey, My My

Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
Hey hey, my my.

Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of johnny rotten?
It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps
The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye. - Neil Young

Nature Photos

Some recent photos of flora & fauna.

Seaside Photos

IWOOT: fit-PC2

I came across this the other day and think it is one of the coolest things I've seen in some time.



The fit-PC2 is a tiny (4" x 4.5" x 1.05") fully featured PC. The whole engineering of it appeals to me, not to mention its tiny power usage.

I don't think they are shipping in the UK just yet, but I'm waiting for a few reviews to see if they really are as good as they look. If they are then I think I'm going to have to buy one.

Australia

Baz Luhrmann - people often say you either like his work or you don't. I seem to fall between those two camps. Strictly Ballroom wasn't for me, I thought that Romeo + Juliet was brilliant, Moulin Rouge! sort of grew on me, and now Australia.

Australia

Plot: 12/20
Acting: 17/20
Production: 18/20
Entertainment: 31/40

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Total: 78/100

Let's start by saying that there are no twists in the plot, you can guess what is going to happen in most instances without much difficulty whatsoever. Strangely this doesn't seem to matter.

The cinematography and soundtrack work very well to provide a suitably backdrop to what was a relatively bland story. The acting was also mostly quite good with notable performances by Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown, et. al., but what makes this film better than it would otherwise seem is the Luhrmann effect. You don't quite get the full Luhrmann [maybe 80% Luhrmann] but it is enough to lift the film out of the ordinary into the worthwhile.

Altogether I thought it was worth forking out to see it in the cinema and that it was a bit better than I expected.

Spanish Fauna

A photo of some sort of grasshopper, I think it may be a locust.

There were quite a few of them, but this one was the only one that wasn't camera shy.

The pigeons and gulls on the other hand didn't have a care in the world and the pigeons in particular would fly right up to you and land a few feet away in the hope that you'd feed them.

Coffee

Coffee is one of the four major food groups, have you been getting enough?

Puerto de Mazarrón - Sunday Market

Every Sunday there is a large, very busy market in Puerto de Mazarrón, it isn't easy to find if you don't know where it is, but once there it is the hub of activity on a Sunday morning.

There are numerous stalls selling fresh, locally grown fruit and vegetables, local meat products and lot of textile and leather stalls. Between these there are a few jewellery stalls selling trinkets made from sea shells, semiprecious stones, regular polished stones and some metal (they said it was silver, I wasn't convinced).











Legs stall! Almost. There were quite a lot of stalls selling stockings, they must be popular in this part of Spain.



Heavy Metal Tee-shirts. Not locally produced I don't think, but they were selling quite a lot of them, so maybe it is a popular music genre in this region.





I didn't think anyone still used these, but they were selling music on cassette tapes!

Lorca Castle / Fortaleza del Sol

Fortaleza del Sol (the fortress of the sun) is a fortress of Arabic origin which dominates the whole city of Lorca. It dates back to the 13th century, and sits on the top of a large hill.





The Spanish seem to have a different view of conservation than we do in the UK, they repair their ruins without too much effort to hide the repairs. This does have the benefit of allowing you to clearly identify the old from the new, but does somewhat ruin the ambiance of the ruin.









Unfortunately it was very overcast on the day I visited it, but there was a hint of blue sky when I was leaving.

Water