A "gropu" of children, in case you were wondering having read the last post, is rather like a group of children, except not spelled quite so correctly.
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say was that it throws strange coincidences at you. And it's also impossible to hit return in this program without it posting the damn blog. I was walking through the park on the way to work this morning, and Weather With You by Crowded House started playing on my MP3 player. Not, on it's own, a particularly strange event, except that as I was strolling along, happily listening, I spotted several gropus of children, obviously on some sort of field trip, and each with a portable weather station. It makes you wonder...
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What I meant to
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Isn't life strange?
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By the way, all these images are being posted using a program from the makers of Picasa called Hello. It's a brilliant idea, which involves the use of a chat client to talk to a blogging bot, which posts everything for you. I'd recommend it for anyone who needs to get their pictures in their blog. There's a link to it right underneath this sentence. Just there. No, down a bit... yeah, that's it, just there.
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Oh, the possibilities are endless. All this stuff is copyright me, by the way. It's all mine, so no nicking things without asking first. And there's no excuse for not asking, there's a link to e-mail me at the top right of the page.
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I mean, when you can post pictures like this panorama of Ladybower Reservoir in the Peak District, people might actually start taking an interest in things.
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makes things look a little more interesting, doesn't it?
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Now that I can actually post pictures, I'm tempted to do a lot of it... This, for instance.
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Right, that seems to have worked. We were a lot closer than it looks on the picture, actually.
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Ok, so that didn't work. Sorry, new software, trying to get used to it. I've obviously missed something... Right, let's try again...
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This is one of the pictures I took with my rather incapable camera phone at the Ben Folds gig. I'm sure there's all sorts of copyright issues surrounding posting pictures of gigs, but Ben's usually a fairly decent chap about that sort of thing, so I'm not expecting a court summons any time soon.
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So, blog, blog, blog...
Erm, went to see Ben Folds last night. Not too shabby. Could have done with staying out there a bit longer. Only 2 1/4 hours? What's that about? Seriously, though, it was absolutely amazing. He gives everything to the performance, to the point of having to tape his fingernails on so they don't fall off as he plays. Heroic.
In other news, I'm more determined than ever to finish my book and get the thing published, if only to prove the doubters wrong. Anyone out there keen on publishing my book for me? It's really good. Honest. Heroic fantasy, in the Eddings/Feist/Brooks mould.
My peach squash also happens to taste quite a lot like Fairy washing up liquid, because I wasn't thorough enough with the rinsing this morning. That'll learn me.