Rise

This is weird, or maybe not.

Part of my old patio is buried under these stones so now that the cold weather is in the damp soil between the slabs is showing itself in weird patterns.

Had intended washing Mrs ATV's car today but was so tired after being out and about yesterday that was quickly postponed.

Been listening to some tunes and updating my Walkman.

16G of space but it breaks my heart to have to take anything off to make space for some new stuff.

Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers managed to make a few tracks on.

Not really a Manics fan. Seen them a few times but I think the idea of the Manics was always better than the Manics.

Especially after Ritchie went what creativity they posessed left with him.

Which is why this is probably the only Manics album I have remotely liked since The Holy Bible.

The album is music set to Ritchie's lyrics which he left behind.

It would have been interesting to see how a similar project would have turned out had Debbie Curtis not burned all Ian Curtis' unpublished/recorded writings after he died.

Also big up to Jenson Button for becoming F1 World Champion. Great race and what a drive. I was on tenderhooks. Some mental crashes too and that petrol/flambe incident in the pit lane was astonishing.

I can't post this Blip without dedicating some time to XFactor and Cheryl Cole. Does she not know that she is obviously tone deaf.

GFirls Aloud were the worst performance in the show last year and this year Cheryl Cole gone solo and howling has taken the biscuit so far.

Especially when she slagged the ex-strippers for looking like ex-strippers when she herself appeared onstage tonight quite obviously at a loss without her pole.

Pantomime for the 21st Century.