Nearly missed it

I was in such a rush last night to get my new Cadillac Records pictures done, online and posted that I couldn't quite remember where the second short scene was. I had a hunt just now and found it. I was going to compare them here, but a weird thing happened in Photobucket. When I selected a picture from the old batch, a different picture came up. I think PB will have to look into that one.

Stray

No shortage of deliciousness here.

Move that hand!

Wot no dress blues?

Fear not:

Shopping Daze

I went on a shopping trip today to try and get those last few bits for Christmas. I didn't find anything for anyone else.

But look at what I found for £8 in HMV:













These are the old caps:

Sound Bodies

How loud can you howl for this one?

Smothered

As I'd like Bobby - or indeed Vincent - to be by me. And as I'd love to be by him.

























Never spotted this one before - back and front bottom!

Small Contribution

It'simpossibleto make a better calendar than Queen Eliza with her wonderful selection, but every year I try to add a little something of my own.

Last year Eliza did something to my calendar so that it could be shared. I decided to be brave this year and experiment to see if I could do it for my self. Here is the result:



The individual pages are here:

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k100/valw1953/Calendar%202010/

Climate Catastrophes

We've seen them happening all over the world for several years - extreme climate events.

They've always happened, just not so many and so frequently. In the UK alone, the flooding of recent years has been frequent and beyond previous extremes.

The latest disaster has been in Cumbria, in northern England. This is the county of the picturesque Lake District.

On Friday, this is what the village of Cockermouth looked like:

The entire ground floors of buildings were filled with floodwater. People had to break through their roofs to achieve rescue.

This bridge is not something from a Californian earthquake. It's in the town of Workington, close to Cockermouth. It is one of six that collapsed in the floods. A seventh is in danger of collapsing at any moment.

There was a police officer directing traffic away from the bridge at the time it collapsed. Bill Barker was killed trying to save others.

Every bridge in the flooded zone is being checked by engineers. I can't even begin to imagine the logistics of that operation.

I for one have no doubt that climate change is to blame for these extreme climate events. Many of them have taken place in the US. Thanks to the climate change denier George W. Bush, the US, the main creator of the carbon emissions that are damaging the planet probably beyond repair has done nothing official to halt and then reverse the pollution trend that will kill the Earth. Barack Obama has taken astonishingly little action despite election pledges. He may not even attend the climate change conference later in the month in Copenhagen. Both on an industrial and a doemstic scale, the US continues to act as if it has a god-given right to continue to burn as much in the way of fossil fuels as it likes, in order to maintain its lifestyle.

That lifestyle is not sustainable. Why take the rest of the planet with you, US, just because you are too selfish to live in marginally less comparative luxury, in order to save the poorest of the world from starvation and the wildlife from extinction?