Sometimes the sky really falls on your head

So I live in this old house. In my opinion it is a great house to live in. It’s big, it’s old, it’s on the river, peopled by lovely people (though they keep on moving out – but I’m sure it’s not personal ;)

However, it does have it’s little quirks.

That’s my ceiling. Or was a few days ago. Since then it has rained even more than usual… and now it looks like this..

Not really an improvement. I have told the landlords (well, I didn’t tell them the ceiling had fallen in a bit – but I’m sure they’ll see it when they come over to fix a switch which has broken. No, it’s not a simple one to fix – it’s on the mains and I aint going near it!

Now.. on other unrelated but fun things.. Glynn sent a link to a pretty fun video..

My friends Andrew and Neil have been competing in the World Orienteering Champs in Denmark.. their website is http://woc2006-irl.blogspot.com/.

Now.. while you might think this pic

has nothing to do with orienteering… well.. you’d be right. And wrong. Andrew and Neil are.. trouble makers.. always were. Anyway, the organisers set up weblogs for everyone. Now, they soon worked out that they gave everyone the same password. Stupidly it might be argued.

Andrew and Neil, after changing their own password, went on a little tour of the sites.. the American one (would have to be ;) had a trailer of their training or something on it.. http://woc2006-usa.blogspot.com/2006/07/interviews-maps-routes-middle-quali.html. Somehow – who knows how (we do) it mysteriously got changed to the above pic. With some funny comments.. (well, Ireland’s one at the bottom anyway)

Classic.

Finally… got round to reading ‘Fast Food Nation’. Well worth it if you haven’t already. And went to see An Inconvenient Truth. Please go see it if you get the chance. It *is* scary and it is happening.. and while there may not be a massive amount we can do… we can at least try! But really really really worth seeing.

Mind you, at least if the gulf stream does get turned off and Europe plunges into the next ice age I should be warmer in NZ. Maybe.