Hot Air Ballooning

Well, after one cancellation, we managed to go hot air ballooning yesterday. It was fantastic! We went up 2500 feet, so not THAT high up and traveled nearly 10 miles, taking off from Marden Beach and landing in Doddington. The brochures said we could travel anywhere between 3 and 5 miles so we did quick well. The poor people who went ballooning last week has no wind and ended up circling Leeds Castle for 45 mins.

The view was gorgeous but on the way down I got vertigo. Now for anyone who has never experienced it, its really scary! I felt like I needed to be sick and then my vision went. I was blind for about five minutes without actually losing conciseness. I don't think the fumes and heat from the burners helped either. Lets just say that on the way home I was quite sick (thankfully not in the car because hubby pulled to the side on time).

Here are some of the pictures we took if anyone is interested!

My New Broom

I go through stages where EVERYTHING must be spotless and at the moment I'm at the peak of one of these stages. Now, everyone knows that a new broom is the key to a clean kitchen and so to kill Neath's and Rhub's curiosity, I have posted a picture of my brand new broom, fresh from swiping my kitchen floor. Having told them all about it at work, they have been dying to see it. Isn't she a beauty? Jealous or what?

Star Trek's 40th

Today, the Star Trek series celebrated it's 40th anniversary and to acknowledge it, the BBC invited Brent Spiner (better known as "Data") onto it's morning program. Pretty exciting stuff considering what's been in the headlines lately. Unfortunately, not only does Brent have to follow an interview with former Vice president of the United States, Al Gore (which by the way was also pretty exciting stuff), the presenter of the morning program had quite obviously NEVER watched an episode of Star Trek in her life.

Let me set this up for you. Moments before this interview started there was a scene from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where "Q", a 'god', has given "Data" the gift of emotions. Just as "Q" leaves the Enterprise (the name of the star ship the show is set on), "Data" bursts out laughing not knowing why but loves the 'feeling'. Being an android and not having feelings, this was quite a gift.

Now that I have set it up for you, listen to the first statement the morning presenter makes: Brent Spiner Interview.

Brent got his own back with his comment about the original cast's mothers having to make their costumes due to lack of funding. Honestly, the BBC's standards surprise me sometimes.

No Wonder People Don't Send Letters Anymore!

It's my brothers birthday next week and so this morning I sent him a birthday card. I went to the post office and asked for a 68p international stamp. Well, first they told me that in April the prices went up to 72p and then when they realized that it was for a letter going overseas (goodness knows why else they thought I wanted an international stamp), they said they had to weigh it. Well, apparently, a letter with a birthday card in it qualifies as OVERSIZED!! I had to pay £1.20! What would have to be in the envelope for me to pay only 72p? I'm thinking maybe a one page note pad sheet. In other words the content of A SHORT EMAIL!! It's no wonder people don't send letters anymore. With more and more people having similar experiences to mine, the demand on the postal system is decreasing, forcing the post office to increase their prices even more. A vicious cycle I guess but after this morning I have no sympathy at all!

That Sounds About Right

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Sorry!

This apology goes out to Neath. I haven't been able to post on my blog recently because it wouldn't let me logon. Apparently, having to continuously look at my broken toilet has driven him to the point of sabotage! Between you and me, he says it was the person that works on the timetables that has put me on a service point all day twice in a row. But I know for a fact that that person wasn't in during those two days and the timetable changed during the day!

I'm really really sorry Neath that I made you look at my toilet for weeks on end but its over now, see? All gone. You can call off the sabotage plans. I promise from now on I will only stick to pimping your brother online and nothing else!