Back of Beyond
Sunday 22nd April 2012
This week’s photos..
This week in photos…
This was a nice view, hot air balloons floating in the sky! – rather obvious. It was while watching these, that I was thinking, what would you think about on the way down if the bottom fell out and my friend told me of a time that one got caught on a power cable! – glad the people up there couldn’t hear us talking.
How could anyone resist! My favourite animal found on a card. Saw this while waiting for a friend and listing to some shop assistants muttering about two old ladies who had taken some used cardboard boxes. Apparently the shop actually sells them and so they stealing their profits!T
his weekend has been the beta testing of Diablo III – this was my Witch Doctor , complete with voodoo doll!
You Tube
I hope this is as good as the Lord of the Rings Triology.
Book Reading
When I am teaching I tell the children that there are several different ways to pick a book that they would want to read
When choosing to listen to a book, since I am not a great reader at all, there is a process I also go through, ranging from what is currently the best seller in WHSmith to recommendations from the internet. One of the main deciders however, is who is narrating it. There have been several times that I have actually downloaded a book to start to read it and have stopped within the first few minutes because the voice of the narrator does not appear to match the book- or my ears!.I have finished reading ‘Mindstar Rising’ and have attempted to listen to two other books.
I do enjoy listening to autobiographies and one I had on my list to read was Stephen Fry. Although this got off to a good start I stopped listing to it about two hours in. I found that rather than actually talking about his life, it was a list of name dropping and discussion about his plays. Although I accept that this was obviously an important part of his life, I am more interested in listening about the person, rather than their achievements.
I have also started to listen to ‘Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie, although this has also fallen by the wayside – the narrator was fine, but the prologue really turned me off the book. I prefer the book to get straight into it, rather than a waffling prologue about how the book was actually written.
Which brings me to my current book – ‘The Stonehenge Legacy’ by Sam Christer . The trouble with this book is the narrator – my original point. I’m going to try and listen a bit longer, I’m getting used to it, but his voice just doesn’t seem to have the correct intonation when introducing characters or even the ends and beginnings of chapters. I’m going to continue for another two ‘walks to work’ and then look for something else. See what WHSmith brings.
World of Warcraft
When playing any game online, timing is everything. This just goes to prove my point…
“Wanna kick me? – freeze!
Other stuff
And other things that might interest…
A rubber chicken’s flight into the Earth’s atmosphere
Rare UK butterflies’bounce back’