Rolf

Just how talented is this man? He sure can paint, he knows what to do with a digeredoo,
helps kids to swim, heals sick animals and used to hang with the Beatles

Kosher

Is it Kosher?This basic website will tell you

Still got questions? Ask a rabbi

Junction 22 M1

If you are travelling on the M1 there is a cornucopia of really nice country parks off Juntion 22 which I can really recommend for a picnic. Its seems odd that this part of Leicestershire should be so rugged but there you go.

Altar Stones (watch out for the longhorn cattle)

Hill Hole Quarry (Sadly I cannot find many links but it is totally awesome, check out the stunning views from the Toposcope, you can see all the way to the Rugby Aerials, 25 miles away

Billa Barra hill, lovely views is that Birmingham in the distance though?

Bardon hill Extraordinary place , you can see from Wales to Lincolnshire from this Marilyn

So stop off, its either this or being ripped off at Leicester Forest East services

Anti BNP

Is very hard to decribe in words how very very much I loath the BNP (an no I am not linking to them). There is a concert going on in Rotherham tonight to protest against them.

These guys are doing a good job exposing them.

As are these

And these guys as well

And if you think the BNP is a lovely cuddly organisation look up a website called Redwatch, again no link.

English Channel

This shows what is going on in the English Channel at the moment. I have been following the ACHIEVER all afternoon

Mars

Check out these amazing pictures of Mars. Especially the one of Phobos. There is a mission (called Phobos-Grunt!) going there next year

Oh look, some fungus is going as well

Betting

Its Newcastle and Middlesborough to win for me this week

Revolution Church

These guys are well worth checking out, they are a church in the U.S run by Jay Bakker (If you can remember a scandal some time ago about some televangelists? Well Jay was part of that family). Go on..have a look..it may change your life

What was President Kennedy

up to this day in 1961?

Off for ...

few days

Emley Moor (Britains CN Tower)

If you live in Yorkshire you will be familiar with the Gigantic Emley Moor Transmitter. I went right up to it and I can attest personally how massive it is. It also gives the impression that it is going to fall on you at any moment. The only other building in the UK that I have seen that gives the same sense of hugeness is the Cardington Hangers in Bedfordshire.

PS I was up Emley Moor because apparently the area is riddled with old coal bell pits. There wern't any.

DDR 2

The airline Interflug

The Wartburg car

Robotron computers (in german)

Soyuz 29 (the first German space mission, the inside of the capsule is the greenest thing in history)

ORWO camera commercial, this is fantastic

The very very last bit of East Germany

The DDR

Lets all celebrate being East German today! Honestly there is some pretty weird stuff in there, particularly the kids stories.

Other cultural icons that are no more

The Ampelmann ( the cute little green man that told East Berliners when to cross the road)

The Trabant

The Pioneers (I guarantee you will be humming the tune!)

East German Atheletes

And Poly Play (totally safe for work)

Landsat Island

Seems a bit odd that they were still discovering islands in 1976

More on the island

411

As of last night this blog had received 411 visitors

Other uses of 411

An Offer

If anyone want me to put their blog (which must be fairly clean) on my links section then leave a note in my comments box,

Brussels Metro

This station is just plain weird, it looks like something out of a horror movie. I think it has something to do with the Belgian Royal family

Stuyvenbergh on Flickr

Japanese Chess

Shogi

Back thru time

Continuing the back thru time theme, I bet you cannot guess who was the first person to use a cash machine in the UK?

And lets have some jolly photo's of some pumpkins

And while we are here, find out about your next bus (if you live in Toronto)

Ipswich Underground

Can you believe this, Ipswich had its own underground railway! Sorry I can't find any contemporary pictures or maps but still.... who'd have thought it?

And while we are on this history kick, ever wanted your excel spreadshhet to convert to pounds shillings and pence? This is how you do it

Time travel

This little lot will take you back

Umbrellas

Optical Illusions

This is painted on the side of a truck, clever ain't it

Etch a Sketch

Etch a Sketch

When Lightning Strikes!

When Lightning Strikes! (useful if you are a bit thunderphobic)

The town of Wrexham

The return....

Hello

I am back and I was just going to terminate this blog but now I have got a good thing going......

-XL