Sunday, March 27, 2005

ooeeeoooo, eeeooooo, oo oo oo oo e oo

...Alice took a bite out of the little cake that said 'eat me' and was immediately muff dived by the awaiting pack of living playing cards...

All hail to the mighty writing of Russell T Davies and the magnificence that was the first episode of Dr Who 2005. I was nearly in tears, everything was just right, the characters, the special effects, the comedy and the music although i must say that the new theme is fantastic but it needed either more volume or beefiness in the opening credits...and the use of surround sound wasn't what it could have been...but all criticisms aside I shall gladly pay my license fee for another year..thank you BBC.

OOh its the big day today when Marie gets to see her punk heroes Stiff Little Fingers in Cambridge, they are taking Lisa and Steve with them...lets hope Lisa stays out of the mosh pit! Have fun guys and a good tip is that if your ears start bleeding its probably too loud!

Forgot to say that when we were in the pub the other night Eric the Landlord had a real ale on tap which was called 'Stuff the royal wedding' ale...great cartoon on the beer pump...you have to laugh!

Really enjoying Easter break, just mellowing and watching films that I needed to catch up on...yesterday I watched Baz Luhrman's (Strictly ballroom, romeo and juliet, moulin rouge) version of Puccini's 'La Boheme' as staged at the Sydney Opera House in 1993...it was just magnificent, if you get chance to rent it please do...its all neon lit signs saying 'L'amour' and the transformation scene to the latin quarter is just awe inspiring...you can deffo see where the moulin rouge ideas came from. Of course its very sad so a box of tissues would be handy...

I think I have mentioned on these pages about the NIRAH aquatic life eden type project thing that will be built near Stewartby, well its happening and now the animal rights protestors are coming out in force. I have been on Nirah's website www.nirah.org and have every faith in them creating a justifiable research establishment as well as a public exhibition space. The protestors are saying that the aqautic life will be experimented on etc.. this is what nirah says on their website...

1. NIRAH is not just there for the entertainment of the fee paying public, apart from playing a vital role in public education, NIRAH aims to help prevent species and habitats from slipping into extinction.
2. Apart from those animals needing special facilities, NIRAH will display all of its animals as openly as possible. Tours showing visitors ‘behind the scenes’ and quarantine areas, will allow them to see newly arrived animals and specialist breeding habitats.
3. To be truly effective for public and scientific education, researchers must be able to study actual living organisms.
4. Captive breeding needs extensive and realistic surroundings for the species concerned, which should be visible to all.
5. An understanding of the fragility of environments is vital in understanding why species are endangered.
6. Sadly some species have no habitat left in the wild; they need the provision of a safe, secure and stimulating home just to survive.
7. As a caring & responsible species, we cannot leave critically endangered species (some below their breeding population – threshold requirements) to their own devices and hope that they survive.

I say good on them, it will be an exciting project that i personally will look forward to visiting and i think its about time the whining 'lets keep animals fluffy' brigade shove it right up their arses and let people get on with saving the planet in a methodical and efficient way...

...after kissing frogs for a lot of years, davinia decided to concentrate on other types of aquatic life instead...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i thought Dr Who was fab too - thoroughly enjoyed it just the right amount of everything - and was a good day England actually won and won in style could makes a change lol

I am looking forward to tonight - slept in so i dont look so haggard at having a late night lol

Happy Easter all - dont ear to many eggs Lisa xxxxxxxxx

Anonymous said...

I have to say I also agree about Dr Who it was fantastic will write more tommorow as im off to the gig in a few minutes. M

Anonymous said...

Happy easter, although I have to admit that I am still feeling like shit. I want to feel well, please let me wake up tomorrow full of the joys of spring. Gx. Still not smoking, yipee!!!!

Anonymous said...

Happy Easter. Blogs great, apparently Dr Who was as well. And I watched the boat race- how sad is that!!!!!!!!!!! Rxxx