Every tourist takes this picture, of the National Trust "Bridge House" office in Ambleside. As I drive by it every day now, I thought I should honour the tradition.

After twenty-odd years of collecting esoteric books, it is great to at last have a room for a study with proper shelves!

B decided to climb up onto this tree as we walked round the Lake. Like all Katz, once up on the branch it looked unlikely she would be able to get back down ...

It took a while to wait for this Robin to hop back onto this branch and start singing so I could take his picture, with Derwentwater Lake in the background.

The Peacock Chicks have little punk tufts on their heads!

The cygnets are growing up quickly!

Gaming Release Frenzy!

Excitment! Three stunning games are due out - four if you include Sims 2 for B. - very very soon - Half-Life 2, Battle for Middle Earth, and Everquest 2. Hurrah! I've actually downloaded HL2 through "Steam", the new way of releasing and updating games on-line. Another sign of broadband changing the whole business distribution and retail model.

I'm glad I managed to flog my old mobile phone on EBay to earn enough to pay for these precious precious shiny things ...

[I quite liked the idea of FABLE, designed by Peter Molyneaux, but it is currently only available on the XBox, and didn't get brilliant reviews when it did come out.]

NLP Magick!

After several weeks of cursing, ranting and generally biting my lower lip in frustration, my ISP has recovered my NLP Magick site! It was *supposed* to be an *upgrade* but it vanished all of my pages, and I didn't have text copies of the content anywhere, so I was slghtly ever-so-concerned. I'm getting ready to teach another 3-day NLP Introduction on an Advanced Hypnotherapy course run by my hypnotherapy tutor, Tony Mahoney at Tara in Liverpool. Actually, on his site you can see me - sort of - in the picture on the header title; I'm the head behind the word "Of"! I wouldn't mind, only it was my camera they used!

Kundalini considered as Ridley Scott/Giger's Alien

Strange the things you think of in the morning. B and I were looking forward to meeting some folk from the Tarot Association of Great Britain this weekend, to paw over each other's favourite decks and shoot the breeze, when I awoke this morning thinking; "Hey, the film 'Alien' is a veiled mystical teaching film on the Kundalini energy". I was thinking of the 'coiled serpent force' of the Alien creature in it's egg, and the way it bursts forth, irrespective of it's host. There ensued some weird and bizarre musings this morning. Don't search, like I did, for Alien+Kundalini on Google, otherwise you'll have to wade through some rather way-out-there stuff about lizard-like alien races, the Giza Death-Star, and worse.

On the Tarot subject, it's the Gilded Tarot that is now next on my shopping list, and B quite liked the look of the Ananda deck. The artist for the Gilded Deck has a beautifully designed site.

When the nice people from TABI arrived, we went to castlerigg stone circle, and as we approached, saw a number of figures earnestly holding their hands against the stones, deep in communion. A little tired of this sort of sight at Castlerigg, I muttered "Oh damn, someone's stuck superglue all over the stones again." The vision ahead of us now looked *entirely* more humorous!