Clock shift

So here in the UK the clock has shifted and we are now on British Summer Time BST ! The hour we lost I think will be worth it of the next few weeks.

Drink of the day

The drink of today is.... London Pride which as you know is a real ale and very nice it is to drink in the sunshine.

Chromecast

I have chromecast at last after managing to get it from the post office. I have to say that it's packed nice and that I got it out of the packaging and working in less than five minutes!

The first thing it did once it was all setup and taking to the internet was to update itself which it did all on its own, I hope that this is something that will continue to happen.

The apps that do exist work well, the only problem at this time is the lack of apps. Hopefully this will be something that will change in the next few months.

Is it worth 30 quid?

Yes I think so, being able to convert an ordinary TV to a smart TV for so little money makes sense to me.

Rock choir

I am not a member of this choir but the wife is and yesterday the choir where asked to perform at Wembley stadium during the pre start and the half time slots.

I think they did very well and the 83000 odd people in the stadium also seemed to enjoy it.

Wembley

So for the first time ever I have been to and been in Wembley stadium. Wow it's a big old building and I am told that it holds 90000 people well when I was there it had over 83000 it did not look full full if that makes sense.

The atmosphere while watching something live is great. I went there to watch a rugby Mach even though I don't follow rugby and I must say that I enjoyed the experience.

The only thing that pissed me off and I do use the words pissed of what the number times I had to get up and down out my chair to let people backwards and forwards. I reckon I had the only row of seats where every one of them either went for food drink or the toilet and I think some of them had all three more than once!

But part from the chair yo yo it was an experience.

Rugby

So yesterday I saw my first live in person rugby match between the Harlequins and the Scracenes which was a good match as far as I understood it all as I don't follow rugby.

So why was I there that I will tell you in another post.

Any way the first try of that match was rather good and the 83000 other people in the stadium though so to.

Speed of growth

Just how fast do Hawthorn leafs grow in the spring?

I mean earlier in the week I saw them just break out into little green shoots and today when I looked they were much much bigger, where does all that energy come from to do all that growing?

The sun is not that bright and as the leafs are still growing I don't suppose that they can be doing a lot of photosynthesis.

So this is one of those things that I don't know the answer to and so far my researches on Google and the like have not answered this question either.

Twitter

Note to myself that yesterday I tweeted my 1000th tweet since joining twitter back in May 2009.

What's a bit strange I have a no idea what my first tweet was.

Millions

I wonder if I should start a millionaire list so that when I win my millions I will already have a list of things that I would like to spend my money and enjoy them.

Well other people have a bucket list why can't I have a millionaires list?

So the question is what should I start with first?

Car?

House?

Holiday ?

There are lots of things....

So I shall have a think and come back to the list when I have something.

Chrome cast

Chromocast was released in the UK yesterday, so I have decided to take the plunge and have actually brought one, it will be interesting to see if it works with the TV in the bedroom, I know that the wifi signal upstairs is good so it will be interesting what use I will be able to make of it.

I am told that you can download apps which will help you use it. All I do know is that it's an android computer and that is tiny.

It's supposed to turn up on Friday so I will report back when I have had chance to have a play with it.

Is it?

Is today the first day of spring eg is today the equinox?

I don't know and as I am just too lazy at this moment to check I don't have an answer. But as the clock move here in the UK soon it can not be very far away can't it?

Moss

Just noticed that the differant mosses that I pass are changeling colour at differant rates even if they are side by side. I suppose it's because they are differant species and so responde to the increased light level and warmth in differant ways.

Grass

Just a note to me that I just noticed that the grass has turned that light green Colour in the last few days, I suppose it has nothing to do with all the sunshine we has been getting in the last few days.

Twitter

It may be of interest to me as in this notebook but I joined twitter not long after if first started, but have not been vey busy on it so much so that I am in the next few days finally going to make my 1000 th tweet, I am not even sure how long axactly it's taken me to get to this number of tweets.

Which makes me look a bit slow in the tweet world but I decided to let others have all the fun.

Purple

Just seen a women with purple tights on, this is most unusual as I did not think they made such a colour and what does it go with?

I was so shocked at the colour that I was looking at that I forgot to notice what else she was wearing!

Spring

Just a note to me about something that I saw today as I was driving into work.

One of the other trees that seems to get its leafs out rather quick and has a much lighter green colour than Hawthorn is Horse Chestnut, why this is I just don't know, only that every where that I have driven in the last few days the trees that I see that are starting to break into leaf are either Hawthorn or Horse Chestnut.

Weather

So we had several days of blue skies and it being warm and dry, so it should not really be a surprise that we have had some rain today.

Hawthorn

Just a note to me that the Hawthorn trees or bushes which ever they are are now starting to break into leaf. I love the green that these new leafs.

Reading

When not watching rugby today, did I mention that I have watched 3 matches back to back?

I have been reading on the iPad kindle app some of the short stories by Frendrick Brown, these are science fiction and some of the story's are short what is now called flash fiction as they are sometimes only 500 words long and they are well worth reading as some how he manages to tell a story and have a twist in it all in 500 words, how he did it I don't have a clue, all I can say is look him up and read a few it's well worth the effort of finding them.

Weather

Just want to record here that today the weather was mostly sunny and that's nice, but the fact is I spent most of it watching rugby, 3 matches one after another!

And what's more scary I don't follow rugby!

But it's been a good day.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is a beer that I don't think I have had befor but it's nice to try something new one in a while. So the new beer that I tried today is Broadside by Adnams.

It's a strong beer 6.3% brewed to commemorate the battle of sole bay in 1672

It's a nice beer to drink but not one I would search out for.

Rugby

Actual lay watching the rugby on the TV and enjoying it, even though I don't normally watch it and don't follow any team the sportsman like way all the teams has played has been great to watch.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day is.... Zindifal rose a wine!

Yeh I know an actual wine, it's not something we drink a lot of but it's nice to be able to just enjoy yourself if you know what I mean.

Song

TEA

I want some tea and I want it now

I love tea and I want to drink it now

Tea in the morning

Tea at night

There is never a wrong time to enjoy this delight

I want more and I want it now

I love tea and I want to drink it now

Tea in night is always a delight

Tea in morning is always right

I want some tea and I want it now

Tea at any time is always right

Copyright David Williams Published by Citrus Dreams

Song

DREAMS

Dreaming slowly dreaming quick

If only life should move so quick

How life passes you by in the blink of an eye

Yet dreams pass slowly in front of your eyes

Dreaming slow and dreaming quick

If only life would be as slow when the dream is great

Nightmares are slow and love so fast as they pass

In dreaming slowly dreaming quick

Has the sun gone in and as I close my eyes

To run and join in that dream that goes so quick.

Copyright David Williams Published by Citrus Dreams 

Note to me

Weather here. Today is sunny with that high level cloud that is like mist but is not, if that makes sense, it's a bright day but not ultra bright.

Phone sex

What exactly is phone sex?

I have heard it on the radio mentioned and in print but have yet to see it written exactly what phone sex is supposed to be and also who has phone sex. I suppose that one of the things that you need for phone sex is a phone. So I suppose that phone sex has or must have been around since the phone was first invented.

So dare I do a search on google to find out what phone sex is?

Song lyrics

Where do lyrics come from?

Does the composer use the same part of his brain as someone writing a book or painting a picture?

I don't know the answer to these questions.

It just an odd thought I had.

Fat cat

FAT CAT

Fat cat fat cat

What are you at

Oh fat cat

Fat cat why are you so fat

You eat in the morning you eat at night

But still your hungry minutes after that

Oh fat cat fat cat what are you at

So round and stubby oh fat cat

Happy to see food on your plate

Never knowingly late for that plate

Oh fat cat fat cat what are you at

Fat cat fat

Fat cat copyright David Wiliams published by Citrus Dreams

See I told you my song lyric are rubbish but they are mine all mine!

Lyrics

Is this a good place to store my own song lyrics?

Is not as if anyone other than me looks at this blog, I mean who is interested in a notebook of odd ideas?

So I shall create a publishing company 

The name of which will be Citrus Dreams

I like that name it's sharp! Don't you think?

So I shall over the coming weeks dump some of my song lyrics here, I suspect that in time even I will forget that they are here, but the good news is that they are not lost to time. As I am sure that google will back them up for me and that if in a few years I do a clever search I will find them again.

Day length

According to my research today daylight should be 11.23 long not sure if that's true looking at the fog we have outside as I type this.

Question

Here's a question for you that has been rattling in my head for the last few days as spring is here. 

How do trees know its spring?

How do they sense the warmth and the fact that there is more sunlight and that the days are getting longer?

What part of the tree senses warmth?

What part that is not a leaf senses daylight?

I don't know the answer to these questions and my searches on google have not been very fruitful in getting me answers to these questions.

Breakfast

Well I want to record here that for the first time in years? I have had ready break made with hot milk, it was nice, and I had loads on sugar on it which was probably not good for me but I enjoyed nevertheless.

Reading again

Well it's a bit of a surprise but I have to report here that I have an entire novel or very short book today. It's a surprise bacuse I did not expect to read anything today let alone a book, even if it's a short one at that.

So the book or novel I read today was by Alastair Reynolds and is called Galantic North and a good story it is even if the ending is not one I wanted, but as I am just a reader I have no power over what the author does or does not do with their story.

Warm

Just a note to me when does the sun light in spring start to feel warm on the face?

Reading

Well as isaid to you before in this blog of mine, well blog is not really the right term for this as it's more my notebook of ideas, which is why this blog is called odd thoughts from a high desk, anyway as I was saying I was reading two books by Clive Clussler one that I had read before and one theatre I haven't but have had in the reading stack for some time.

Well it turns out that I have finished reading the book I had read before again it was called Atlantis Found, the other book sadly I have not read any more of.

Why I don't know but I shall have another bash at reading it.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.....Tea nothing eels to say about it.

Spring

I have decided that light and warmth are what plants need to tell them it's spring. 

Lost plane

I hope that the plane is found soon and that it turns out to be a mechanical failure and not terrorism, as one can be fixed not the other.

Sleepy

Lots of people yesterday reported that they felt sleepy and very tied I wonder if it has anything to do with the sudden increase in light levels that we are having here in the UK.

As we have had two whole days with blue sky it wonder if it is the extra light that is causing people to be tied, by some how with have a reaction on the hormone level to lots of bright light, which here in the UK we have not had for weeks.

Drink of the Day

As I sometimes like to record what I was drink on a particular day the drink of the day today is Coffee, sadly the instant kind, but one of the more expensive ones, still its just what you need early on a Sunday morning.

Ipad Air

Just a note to me that the Ipad is doing well, its let me only use the computer desktop about once a week so that's good.

The only downside to using an Ipad is that you soon get very used to it being on and in use in seconds where as the desktop appears to take minutes to get going.

Reading

an update to what I am reading, I think last time I said I was reading a Clive Clussler book, well it turns out some how or other that I am now reading two books by him!

I know I don't know how it happened but it did and i am stuck with it.

One book I have read before (what again!) the other is a new book to me, that was published back in 2013.

The book I am rereading is Atlantis Found! the other book is Posidions Arrow, for entertainment they are great fun and a great way to relax. As I need something to wind down to that is not going to make you drunk these books are just right.

Spring

Looks like spring is going to happen, for once I think the weathermen or women have got something right. But as this is the UK we are talking about, I am sure that the weather will have the last laugh it normally does.

Reading

I am still reading the old clive Clussler book that I brought last year but for one reason or another had not read, it had just sat there in my ever growing reading pile, and here I am only taking about the paper version of my reading list the electronic one is something I really don't want to talk about, mainly because it's even bigger.

But what are you supposed to do when amazon are doing a sale and you can pick up books that you have wanted to read but only cost 50 pence or less?

So you can see my problem I hope.

Any way the Clive clussler book I have got to page 104.

Weatherman

The weatherman toad had to remind us that it's already spring as far as they are concerned, so I am hoping that the weather will take note and follow on.

Spring

So by my reckoning I have calculated that we have something like 3 week before the equinox and the way that the day is getting longer I can't believe just much more daylight we are now getting, and that there will be even more to come.

Sunshine

Like to record here that we had some sunshine today, yes even I am amazed.

Reading again

Some how or other I have managed to re read a book by Clive Clussler who I am now told is some 83 years old. I did not know that he was that old, but it does not matter as long as he still has ideas for his books even if they are written by others, such as his son.

The book that I retread was called Shockwave and I must have read it when it first came out in paperback.

It's still great entertainment not sure that some of what in the book even follows the laws of physics but you know what? I don't care all I want is to be entertained. I think that Clive delivers that in this book so the fact that I have now read it twice must mean that I have had my money's worth and that's also good!

In my reading stack, yes I have a stack of actual paper books that I have brought but for one reason or another have not yet managed to read, I have found a Clive Clussler book that I have had for some time. It's call Poseidons Arrow and so far having just casually picking it up after finishing Shockwave I find that I am now on page 63! 

Looking in the front of the book I find that the edition I have was published in 2013 so it's not been in my reading stack for too long.

I will let you know what I think of the book when I complete it.

Spring

So according to what I have just read today is the second day of spring how great is that?

I just hope that the weather has also seen the Callander and now switches to spring weather soon.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.... Greene king Smooth IPA.

 This is a beer that I have had before but not in this format or style.

The smooth is created by a nitrogen widget, but sadly the hope taste is not there in the final drink. The drink is very smooth but the IPA taste and flavor which is one of the reason its called an IPA is not present.

That's not to say that the beer is not nice, its a nice beer but I would not drink this for the taste, the texture yes but not the taste.