Edmonds and I

Their excellent Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) tell me that if you Google "Noel Edmonds", my site is the 139th most popular referrer. 132nd if you're looking for Keith Chegwin. That certainly was an alarming unintended consequence.

Oh, wait a minute ... I've just made it worse, haven't I?

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Cat House on the Kings

A cage-less cat sanctuary for 700 cats on 12 acres of land. All of them are up for adoption, but if I was a cat I'd be completely bummed out to be "rescued" from Cat Heaven. What crazy old lady could possibly resist leaving all her money to this cat home?

http://www.cathouseonthekings.com/

City Limits

Superb short film for the very talented Alake Riley.

"Hidden in the underground depths of the damp, abandoned Boomtown tube station, we meet MARLEY. An inner-city kid with big plans to set-up one of the city's coolest underground broadcasts. It will be called Boomtown D.U.B. (digital underground broadcast)."

"Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult."

Exploring

We seem to be getting out and about a bit more now that we have a car. There's a stretch of beach about 15 minutes from our house (or 30 minutes, depending on how many wrong turns we take on the way there), that we seem fascinated by for no reason.

It might be because the shop sells fairly decent ice cream or the place next door's over-priced chips are pretty good (note to self: bring own ketchup next time). Generally we just go there for an hour and walk up and down a bit.

The light is nice, and there's something very odd and transient about places like this. I want to visit it in the winter, in the snow, to see if it still exists.

And then, suddenly, we're home -- a few fields, some traffic, and there's Stanley wondering where we go and come back with different smells. I'd like to take him there, really, because I'd like him to know that there is such a thing as the sea.

I think it would really appeal to him. But of course, he might run off and get lost amongst the summerhouses -- though I can imagine him sitting there, on the beach just having a stare at little boats and far islands and thinking "WTF!" in his strange cat-like way.

Apocalyptic Danish Beach

Some photographs taken in the beach near Nymindegab on 2008-08-09. It was very windy, so I took some of the pictures low down to show the erosion shadows behind the pebbles.

I'm using Google Analytics...

... so I can see more information about the three or four people who visit my site every year.

https://www.google.com/analytics/

It was pretty easy to do - even a Muppet like me managed to copy the JavaScript and paste it in my Blogger template at the beginning of the tag.

The dashboard is a Flash object, but it's pretty cool and has a lot of features. Behold its emptiness!