I while back I conjectured that Bob Dylan in a dub stylee would be a damn fine record for someone to make.  And now they have.  Whoo hooo.  Big up the people of Ras Records for making Is it Rolling, Bob?:  A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan and roll on the 10th August release date. 

Sorry.  I know I been a bad blogger lately.  Some stuff has happened (incl my burfday woo) but somehow I never got round to blogging,  prob cos also I never got round to stopping sstuffing my face with crap.  We're off on holiday on Friday, for 10 days.  When we get back mebe I will work on the stuffing my face with crap stuff. 

oh dear. Greece 1 Portugal 0. It wasn't a lucky cake, then.

Today we have been mostly supporting Portugal (in Euro Cup final v Greece tonight). Our neighbours are Portuguese, and have flags and bunting flying from their balcony. This afternoon me, O and their daughter B made a chocolate cake and decorated the top with a Portuguese flag. The kids did the icing so it wasn't completely to scale. We've given it to them for luck, so I got it out of the house before eating it hah.

Multi-Meedja Archive

I've decided to keep an archive of music, radio progs and books that I list in the side bar. And this post shall be it.

MUSIC

• my music for belly dancing round the living room to list at amazon
  
• Hossan Ramzy
  
• Bab El Oued Kingston (Gnawa Diffusion)
  
• Is It Rolling Bob? A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
  
• Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Dr Alimantado)
  
• the Bragg-meister
  
• The Storm (Moving Hearts) - in keeping with prevailing climatic conditions, oh the joys of an English summer
  
• O's Summer Anthems
  
• Made in Medina (Rachid Taha)
  
• several albums by Dick Gaughan
  
• Tekitoi (Rachid Taha)
  
• O's Pop Party
  
• wishing you an irie Christmas and a dancehall New Year with the Trojan Xmas Box Set ~ 50 tracks of seasonal reggae joy. Santa Claus is skaing to town!
  
• Deb (Souad Massi)
  
• Half Man Half Biscuit
  
  

RADIO

• Terry Pratchett's Mort - R4 Tuesdays 11 pm
  
• The Archers - can't get enuff of that Ambridge gossip
  
• The Square Meal
  
• BBC R5Live Olympic Coverage
  
• Coming soon to a planet near you
  Hitchhiker's Guide: The New Episodes
  
• Dermot's Saturday Club (one for Jude)
  
• Mark Lamarr presents The Upsetter - The Life & Works of Lee 'Scratch' Perry Radio 2, Wednesday, 10pm
  
• The News Quiz
  
• John Peel remembered - Front Row Special (R4) and Steve Lamacq's tribute (R1)
  
• BBC R3 World Music Awards
  
• No Fixed Abode, Cricklewood (a history of the goodies)
  

BOOKS

• The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
  
• Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
  
• Toast (Nigel Slater)
  
• Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Azar Nafisi)
  
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Simon Sebag-Montefiore) - deferred (finding it too hard going right now)
  
• Sanctum (Denise Mina )
  
• Fat Land (Greg Critser)
  
• Daughter of Fortune (Isabel Allende)
  
• The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
  
• Pompeii (Robert Harris)
  
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
  
• Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
  
• The Distant Echo (Val McDermid)
  
• How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Francis Wheen)
  
• From the Holy Mountain (William Dalrymple)
  
• The Calorie, Carb and Fat Bible is my constant companion since I went back to calorie counting. Yawn.
  
• The Black Dahlia(James Ellroy)
  
• 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (Gavin Menzies)
  
• White Mughals(William Dalrymple)
  
• Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
  
  
  

updated: 15/02/05

O slept over at his friend's last night. Very weird. I went into his room to check on him several times last night, before remembering he wasn't there. This morning, it was so nice to have a decent lie-in, but strange not to be woken by a bundle of energy shouting mum mum mum time to get up mum.

Things I have to do today include loadsa work, sorting out my bike, shopping, washing, cleaning the house blah blah blah. So I am sitting on the balcony drinking coffee instead.

Why you shouldn't eat peanuts at Work-related Drinks Receptions:

1. Each peanut contains approximately 475, 000 calories.

2. You may drop a peanut down your cleavage and then have to try to decide, thro the haze of cheap red wine on an empty stomach on top of tiredness from being on your feet talking all day, whether to try and fish it out discreetly or leave it there.