The other day my husband showed me incredibly cute YouTube clips featuring the Slow Loris. I’ve never seen these cute critters before and they are very endearing (check out this clip for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdQ3UhLoD4 ). These tiny creatures with their huge eyes and dextrous paws just want to make you cuddle them – [...]
Apr
23
Apr
12
Good News Channel
The other week I watched Charlie Brooker’s excellent “Newswipe” (BBC4, Wednesdays) about news anchors. It featured a short film by Adam Curtis (who directed the brilliant “The Power of Nightmares”) about the rise of “oh-dearism”, a tool for news, which drives audiences to apathy and helplessness. This got me thinking – every day we are [...]
Apr
12
Driving continued
I had another driving lesson last Friday and after a nervous start I managed to get through the lesson without big problems. My driving instructor wanted me to get used to traffic lights and how to wait (hand brake on, relax feet and count to 12), how get ready (make sure the car is in [...]
Apr
07
“Sculptures of nothing in houses of sand!” Stewart Lee
The best thing on telly at the moment is Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle ( BBC2 on Mondays at 10 pm). If you haven’t seen it by now – watch it. I haven’t heard of him before until I watched the first episode about books where he had a go at Chris Moyles and Dan Brown. [...]
Apr
01
More from the driver's seat
I haven’t posted for a while and my last lesson was on Thursday last week. It went surprisingly well. I only stalled once, managed to turn left or right without many problems and am finally getting used to the proper way of stirring (i.e. pull and push instead of dangerously crossing my hands over the wheel!). [...]
Apr
01
“Gone Baby Gone”
Yesterday I watched Ben Affleck’s impressive directorial debut which centres around the abduction of little girl - and rarely has a film ending made me so angry. To me it was everything but a happy end and the protagonist certainly lost my sympathy. But maybe that was the whole point of the movie – I hope [...]
Helen's Paws for Thought
- Bobby in a box September 6, 2010Our cat is incredibly nosey and likes small boxes – she even sleeps in them. I thought I share a few photos of her which we took a couple of weeks ago. […]helen
- New layout for my blog September 6, 2010I decided it’s time to change the blog’s theme and layout and I hope you like it. I always wanted to incorporate Bobby’s paw into my blog’s header and thanks to this new theme I found I was able to. I am still working on my new website -hence the lack of blog entries lately. […]helen
- Ukuleles August 2, 2010I am not normally a trendy person, but in March I ordered an Ohana Ukulele from Music Is Life http://www.musicislife.co.uk/ (also called the Southern Ukulele Store on Ebay) which finally arrived a few weeks ago. Ukuleles are very popular at the moment – even the Guardian has dedicated an article to a Ukulele teacher in […]helen