Heath Ledger

Sadly, an actor died yesterday. I have no idea who Heath Ledger is, apart from the fact that he was in a movie called "Breakback Mountain" about gay cowboys, so I was pleased that Five Live were going to enlighten me by interviewing some fellow actors.
On being asked about the news, Morgan Freeman said "I've never met him, so I guess I'm feeling the same as the rest of you about this."
Was Jack Nickolson going to be more informative?
"I once nearly drove off a cliff. I had to get up in the middle of the night and I live up in the mountains and I nearly drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house. I never met him either."
And that was it. I remain unenlightened.

An Oddie Menu

Whoever's idea it was to invite Bill Oddie to be the star guest on the live Saturday Kitchen programme yesterday and then have the first celebrity chef cook duck for him should be awarded some sort of prize. Surely the expression on his face, the "I'm NOT eating THAT" and the comments on the merits or otherwise of shooting wild birds can't have come as a complete surprise to those involved in the programme.

Snoopy

Google are snooping on the whole world, and it's brilliant. Via map searching on google you can find satellite images of anywhere around the world, and you can spend hours doing your own snooping.

Anyway, while hunting for North Korean concentration camps I noticed this lovely pink volcano on the China/North Korea border.

Apparently it is Baekdu Mountain, and in the middle of it is Heaven Lake, one of the highest crater lakes in the world. I fear it may only be pink because of camera problems, but that doesn't really matter. I think the image above must have been taken in summer, rather than at this time of year when the average temperature there is a somewhat chilly -24C, which would suggest that the picture should be just a blanket of white.

New Year's Resolutions

The whole New Year's Resolution thing is clearly tedious and pointless. If you must change something in your life them do it straight away rather than waiting for January the first ... and why make such a big deal about it, do you really think the world is interested?

On the other hand, here are mine.
1) Update blog at least once every week. (Phew, nearly failed that already)
2) Reduce email inbox to less than 1000 items.
3) Stop whinging about Indian food/restaurants.
4) Go to the gym at least once a week unless away on holiday.
5) Boycott Robert Mugabe, should he come to visit.
6) Paint the kitchen.
7) Eat more apples.
8) Don't take up smoking.
9) Avoid the cliched belief that any list has to have a round number of items.