28th Februrary 2014

Well that's February almost at a close, the weather is still wet and windy, even a little snow this month but the sun was shinning today (between bouts of rain)

Rocky has a new Java Tree to spend his out-of-cage time in (and not chew up my furniture)

I have been after one of these Java tree stands for a while now and looking out for on with decent branches for perches and this one seems up to the job. Rocky is still finding his way around it and the different widths of the branches are great for developing the muscles in his feet/claws ...quite natural for him (well perhaps not the rainbow coloured rope)

Was through in Glasgow last night to see the great Max Cavalera play with Soulfly

Max is the founder and frontman of Sepultura before leaving in 1996 to start up Nailbomb then later Soulfly.

Max is from Belo Horizonte in Brazil, a lot of his music has Brazilian foundations with Soulfly, the last song he wrote for Sepultura was ratamahatta which has very Brazilian native influences and it meshes together good with metal so you could tell the direction he was taking.

It was an excellent gig, the crowd were amazing and Max interacted with everyone to the trill of the crowd. The place erupted when he played "roots bloody roots" from Sepultura, even one of the security guys bodysurfed from the stage into the crowd to everyones delight who encouraged him on :-)
That was my first gig this year since Black Sabbath but have a few more lined up before the summer with include Uncle Acid and the deadbeats also a Norwegian metal band called Kvelertak (they done the soundtrack for troll hunter) in April and Clutch in May (Elton John in June down south but not want to say too much about that on this thread) The Sonisphere line up looks amazing but that's maybe not on the cards for me, download not so good but Alter Bridge is playing so that's worth something :-)

16/02/2014

Well that's another Valentine's Day over and done with on the 14th. I hope you are all "chocolated" out and wined and dinned to exhaustion and avoided these thorns on the roses. Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on feb 14th each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world. St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus.  It was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to medieval scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, it was Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance, I am sure all these card shops are happy for that fact!!!!

Last week I was trialling contact lenses, sadly to say now I don't think they will be for me ;-( I can get them in (after a good few attempts) but getting them out is another question. I have been attempting to get them in and out at work and with all the poking and prodding my eyes started to look like I was an extra on the walking dead, on Wednesday I just could not get them out at all, had to nip away from the office and across the road into Boots  opticians at the Gyle shopping centre were the girl "flicked" them out no bother at all so it looks like the problem is ME!!! I have been told that Laser surgery in an option for me so think I shall go down this line later this year and get a consultation. Peeps at my work have had it done and recommend it so guess I better sort this out.

I got a Pasta Attachment for my Kenwood Chef so now make my own Pasta nice and fresh, I am already making tasty Pesto with Basil and Pine nuts so fresh pasta tastes great with fresh pesto :-)

The pasta maker is robust and worked perfectly i made the pasta mix exactly as instructed , like bread crumbs, and feeding it carefully into the machine as instructed it turned out perfectly. i had used my duck eggs so the pasta was a very rich yellow. gorgeous! it tasted much better than dried pasta and cooked in half the time.