Last night, I was persuaded to try out stumbleupon, which is a toolbar that you can add on to Firefox. (or IE probably, if they still make that these days!) You tell it your interests and click the “stumble upon” button, and it finds websites related to you, as rated by the general (geeky) public.
Anyway, would you believe, I just clicked the button not 5 minutes ago (it’s quite addictive you know) and the page they brought up for me was THIS ONE! What a perfect follow on to this morning’s (yesterday’s) blog.

My favourite is this one, the spookfish!:

spookycute!

April 25th, 2007 by Miss Merlot

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.

The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.

Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile.

They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.

“We have estimated that the mean temperature of this ’super-Earth’ lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid,” explained Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result.

“Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth’s radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans.”

Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, added: “Liquid water is critical to life as we know it.”

He believes the planet may now become a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.

Read the full story here

This is big and exciting news in the Science world at the moment.
Damn the current propulsion techniques though, we need to be going up there to have a look! Imagine if it’s covered with oceans, that could mean extra-terrestrial SEALIFE! Just look at the weird and wonderful specimens we have found in the (until recently) unreachable depths of the deepest oceans here on earth. How utterly amazing and wonderful would it be to find some on another planet?
I’ve always been rather (well, very) sceptical about ET life to be honest, but I have to admit this does excite me. Whether that’s because my love of all things oceanic is over-riding my sensible head is questionable, but I’ll keep reading and speculating and waiting for more news.

Idiot in print here

Firstly, you are not all that special yourself, or particularly attractive, but it’s not something I would have ever thought to comment on had I not read your comment above.
Secondly, those fat Glaswegian neds have probably furnished your home by buying your shitty ten-a-penny records.
Thirdly, nice one by the way, to publicly slag off 1-Scottish people, 2-Fat people and 3-YOUR FANS in one stupid, idiotic statement.

Just putting it out there for the Fat Glasgow girls.

What a twat.

I just looked out my Kitchen window.
Last winter the storm blew down 2 fence panels that were separating my garden from the house across from me. They were absolutely in bits so couldn’t be repaired or patched up, so we’ve had a big gaping hole there ever since. As we’ve been out in the garden alot this week, it’s been really annoying me as we don’t have the privacy that I prefer, and The Boy keeps running across to play on the swing and see-saw in the opposite garden. (big boys toys, he’s far too small for them.)
Anyway, yesterday I got sick of it so came online and ordered 9m of brushwood screening, to put up temporarily to give me some privacy. It arrives on Tuesday.
Just went into the kitchen, looked out the window and guess who’s putting a new fence up? The neighbours opposite!!!
AAARRGGHHHH. Anyone want to buy £50 quids worth of wood? LOL.

Mowing the Lawn.
That is all.

It’s been almost 2 months since my baby has been sleeping in his own room. I kept putting it off and putting it off for almost a year, but we are both really light sleepers and neither of us were getting a good nights sleep. I co-slept with him from birth until he was about 9 months, and it was such a wrench putting him in his own cot that the thought of moving him into a different room didn’t even enter my head! Anyway, my mum and aunty were down in February and they helped me decorate (Well, they decorated…I watched)his room ready for the transition. So at the grand old age of 20 months he finally got his own blue haven.
I LOVE having my bedroom back. I can put my jammies on with the light on, if I want to read in bed I can, and I’ve been getting through so many DVD’s that my wee computer can’t keep up with the downloads to keep me in movies. I have my laptop at the side of my bed so I can check mail whenever I want. I know anyone reading this will be thinking I’m mad, but I’m really excited about the prospect of going to bed with a movie and some wicked chocolate cake or junk food.
As I type, I’m lying here in bed, downloading this weeks “Lost” , which I plan to watch in a few minutes, curled up in my king size duvet eating hummous and mini pittas with a pint of icy water. It really is heavenly.
Either that or I’m getting old.

I don’t know if I blogged about the weird ex BF thing when it happened. It was a couple of months after C died and I was contacted by 3 of my exes within a 3 week period. (I don’t mean the exes were weird…although I don’t tend to go for normal, but I wouldn’t call anyone weird on a public blog!)
Well, in the last 24 hours I was contacted AGAIN by 2 of them, and I was contacted last week by the other one.
It’s kind of weirding me out. It’s like I’m being stalked by the freakin‘ witches of Macbeth. Why is does it always happen at around the same time? Is it nature? Is there some kind of “boy law” that says you can only email exes every so often after they are widowed?
Whatever it is, I just reply politely and chat away, it’s actually nice to catch up with people from the past. One thing it’s taught me though is that men stop maturing at around 24. They are all EXACTLY the same as they were when I knew them years and years ago. Same hobbies, (only worse in some cases!), same mentality, same life really, and all still living within a 10 minute drive of their mums. And I never went for “safe” men. I had relationships with rebels, wild ones, punks, men who weren’t always the norm, into alternative lifestyles, sometimes to the extreme.
I just feel so far removed from that life now, and I like to think it’s because I have grown up and they haven’t.
The reality is that just less than a year ago my life was “perfect”, I had a family, we had big plans for the future, but it all crashed down on us when C became ill. I wonder why I was contacted by the past after so long, just at a time when I was on my own again. I’m not talking about individuals here, just “the past” in general. I’m feeling pulled between Bristol and back home at the moment. Although I have a crap life here (socially on a personal level), I have the security of my house, and The Boy and I have our routine and activities. If I move back home this year I’m losing the security of this house, although I’ll always be ok because of my mum , but I love my independence. The main problem is that I am completely on my own down here, and that in itself makes me feel panicky just thinking about it. I would have support from family and friends back home, and at the moment, that means more to me than the security of my own permanent house.
Going back to the weird ex thang though, I wonder if they just pop into my life now and again to remind me that going home won’t feel the same as it did back then. It’s when I’m contemplating moving home that I suddenly see an email or one pops up on myspace or MSN. Or is it to remind me that I have a life there and should come home?
AAARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH