Let joy be unconfined.......

.....because I know what I'm going to be watching tonight, seeing as it's just arrived in the post from the kind folks at Amazon! I'd almost given up hope of Tutti Frutti ever coming out on DVD (there's been a copyright battle running for years, it was first aired in 1987...I'm guessing one of the protagonists must have died!) Anyone else remember it with fondness?

Going down!

Explore the oceans with Google Earth. Just launched (sorry!) a couple of days ago. You can...

• Dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench
• Explore the ocean with top marine experts including National Geographic and BBC
• Learn about ocean observations, climate change, and endangered species
• Discover new places including surf, dive, and travel hot spots and shipwrecks

You'll need to download Google Earth v5 from here, but then forget the snorkel and flippers!

It's that time of year again

No, surely not! Less than a month to go and the excitement is rapidly building (???) Check out the latest hot news here (eg "Who will join Rodolfo Chikilicuatre on the plane to Belgrade?", now personally, I just can't wait to find out!) Watch the videos and read the press releases, dig out the tinsel and order in a case of Lambrini.

Previous winners can be viewed at Eurovision Winners (videos slow to load.....but you know it's worth it!)

And the wikipedia entry is.......................................................here

Personally, I don't think the UK has ever matched the heights reached by Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson with "Sing little birdie, sing" in 1959.....we were robbed, only scraped second place!

Weird and wonderful films

Check out a long list posted at Eye of the Goof, all of which you can either watch online (low res, but good enough to try before you decide whether to go for the high res version) or download (copyright free and completely legal!) from Archive.org. Here's just the 'A's' for a taster.......

The Amazing Mr. X
The Amazing Transparent Man
The Ape
Assignment: Outer Space
Atom Age Vampire
The Atomic Brain
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack From Space

LATER....I've watched the first (small screen) 10 mins of Atom Age Vampire and decided to go for the full download for a fun-filled saturday nights viewing pleasure......but let's face it, I'm easily pleased!

An alternative for Chris and Nick

Especially for those long winter nights when even the most stalwart members of the Caravan Club do nothing more energetic than rifle through their photograph albums!
PDF of the complete model added to the box files on the right.

And speaking of honing language skills....

There's a new FREE online 'learn another language' website just launched called Mango that looks worthy of a try. All the usual suspects (French, German, Spanish etc) and a few less obvious (Greek, Mandarin, Japanese) Each course has 100 lessons comprising maybe 70 or so pages each. You'll need your speakers turned on!

I won some Southern Comfort in a raffle a while back...

....and now I've found this my life is complete! If there's any left, expect cocktails at that end of term party!


Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.

Wall to wall Monty Python videos

Click here

The end (as in Eurovision) is nigh.....

This is for Daizy, possibly even Sarah...but definitely me...so a sad girlies evening is officially on the cards! But I know you want to join in on the dance moves on Saturday night....c'mon, get real, of course you do!

Blue Peter shows you how here

And the whole fantabadozy routine is here (repost)

PS.....those costumes might be getting a bit whiffy by now, and, hang on, would they be egg stains?....let's stay upwind!