a flake?

Hello

My first note this week, brings with it great surprise.

US audience 

I checked the web statistics earlier in the week, and was surprised to find that my audience has been predominantly from the USA. It surprises me (being English myself), but it pleases me greatly that I have proof of my blog being read worldwide!

Some creative writing...

An unfortunate accident has left me stranded. I survived, I am floating in the ocean. Ships sail by me, but I fail to board. I don't know where I will end up, but then no-one knows anything. Nothing is certain. I dream of a paradise, but I have a enough sense to  know that it is not real. I look, and realise that everyone around is living comfortably used to their life, other fish battling through whatever waves they meet. It is good to recognise that everyone has ups and downs, but I have always felt individual. No one is like me. I still have a need/desire for a companion, but I am floating alone currently, there is plenty that I can no longer do. I can do more and more, as time goes by. However, as time goes by, ships go by.

Do you want a straw in that, love?

Do you want a flake in that, love?

:) (click the smile)

Hehehe. I laugh at my memory of the incident! I live cafe-life, but was left giggling inside, when a young woman moved my table, attempting to make room for another woman with a pushchair. She moved it successfully, and pointed at my carrot juice bottle with a quizzical face. When she asked if I wanted 'a straw in that, love?'

Such an expression, in an identical accent, made me smile inside!

Is it too difficult? 

Hmmm. This photo is taken in a big, popular cafe, in central Kingston. In some respects, I discount myself, as I am in a wheelchair and so often leave packaging rubbish on the table (You can call me lazy). However, I am shocked to watch hundreds or thousands of customers, just dump rubbish in one bin! I go over and investigate. Ok, there are two separate bins (plus one sink for liquids).Tin cans are separated from ‘everything else’. This is good, but it does mean that glass, food, plastics, paper and everything else get collected together. The cafe tries to claim high-ground, by claiming encouragement of recycling! However this encourages such laziness of customers, it worries me. It should not be too hard for customers to distinguish what they dispose of. 

We must wake-up and realise how much energy we save if we were to distinguish what materials we recycle. Paper in a ‘paper’ bin, plastics in a ‘plastics’ bin etc...

I was listening to 6music (as ever), and was surprised to hear a new Damon Albarn song. This fact surprised me, as he had just released his latest album, last year(i think). But this song seemed a totally different style, reminiscent of his 'Blur days'. I listen afterwards, and his former band are credited. Good news!

blur - go out (click here)

Blur - New album ‘The Magic Whip’ out April 27

I discussed my amazement at sponsor less shirts, following the first leg of this Europa clash between Fiorentina and Roma. The tie was completed last night in. Rome's Olympic Stadium. A convincing 0-3 victory, by the Florentines was completed using the most-effective and super performance that I have seen this season. Tight draws between English clubs such as Manchester City, Arsenal, and Chelsea, have definitely shown top teams performing at their peak, but such a convincing, effective, calculated destruction of the opposition, away from home, proved to me that they knew exactly what they were doing!