One for Jo......the skies the limit!

Jo recently had some photos of the sky from locations she had visited. It made me think about the lovely open sky view we get in Bexhill down by the sea. Here are some examples using my trusty camera phone.

This was viewing the sky towards the South East from the beach.


This time looking more South West. I love this image although it's a bit dark because I was facing the sun. See how the rays shine down from the cloud and make a bright reflection on the sea. My mum use to call those rays "God's glory". (click to enlarge)


Again the same view but just a couple of minutes later. If you click the image to make it bigger, you can see the sun's reflection on the sea getting smaller because of the cloud.

Am I feeling blue yet?

We've had our first major rehearsal for the show and the triumphal return of the Blues Brothers, along with other less interesting acts. At this point I can confirm we were complete rubbish. It all went so wrong....

1) Didn't get the intro music ready in time to practice my warm up words.
2) Sound tech was farting about with our first song and it bombed out half way through our performance.
3) Missed my queue in the song and couldn't get back into it properly.
4) Sang out of key. I sing low as a contrast in 'Everybody Needs Somebody' but I just don't sound right, and I don't have enough power. (I need more power Cap'n)
5) Wasn't close enough to the microphone, and thus people couldn't hear me. Paul was fine, as he naturally eats the mic when he sings anyway.
6) Both of us arrived in bad moods and headache's, it's safe to say both of us left like that too.

To top it off, someone asked which Blues Brother am I? The short fat one, or the thin tall one? It didn't take Einstein to work out that i'm both, taller and fatter.

At this rate I don't think we are on a mission from god, rather, we need some divine intervention to make us good!

Knock Knock...

A smart little video of (i think) a Kestrel with its trainer, swooping about. So beautiful.

This was taken on a great day out in October with friends and family to Knockhatch Farm not too far up the A22 from Eastbourne.

other highlights.....
There is something very disturbing about the way that 'widget' thing on its nose/beak moved around independently on this turkey.......yuk blahhhhhh.

We were able to pet these Llamas as apparently they are very sociable animals. The wool was very soft. Llamas seem to be a bit of a theme here in East Sussex, we have a Llama farm at nearby Norman's Bay.
These guys are quite near the entrance to the farm looking look like a comedy double act. They remind me of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show.