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    Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
    3:42 pm
    Saturday, May 26th, 2012
    3:57 pm
    Thursday, May 24th, 2012
    7:17 pm
    Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
    8:44 pm
    Sheep enjoy a sunny day.





    after a cold and somewhat smeggy start to May the humans enjoyed a bit of sun too.
    Friday, May 18th, 2012
    4:57 pm
    Saturday, May 5th, 2012
    3:14 am
    Monday, April 16th, 2012
    11:41 pm
    More reviews, and another rant on IAP abuse.
     “Minter’s vision remains 100 per cent crystal clear, even after programming his way through three tumultuous decades of technological advancement. The fact that Gridrunner is just as addictive and challenging as any shooter you’ll find on the App Store – if not more so – is testament to the man’s talent.”

    Some 5AD and Gridrunner reviews, and another tirade about IAP abuse, at my Llamasoft blog: http://s349909351.websitehome.co.uk/blog/?p=232
    Monday, April 9th, 2012
    8:23 pm
    1:38 am
    Monday, April 2nd, 2012
    8:34 pm
    Saturday, March 31st, 2012
    5:18 pm
    Five A Day gameplay

    Continuing to crank out games. Here's Five A Day, should go off to Apple early this coming week all being well.
    Sunday, March 25th, 2012
    8:01 pm
    The moment we found Teddy :)
     I'm having an epic trawl through all my pictures at the moment in an ongoing project to gather the best photos of each sheep into albums. In the course of that I'm finding a few videos, and I realised I'd never shared this one.



    That's the moment we went into the middle field a couple of summers ago and found a little lost lamb in with our sheep, baa-baa-baaing his little head off. We thought at first he must have strayed from some local farm but asking around nobody claimed him. His provenance remains a complete mystery.

    Judging by how tame he evidently is - this is the first time he's seen us and yet he comes running up with no fear - I'm guessing he must have been raised as someone's pet and maybe they couldn't keep him any more so dropped him off with our sheep, knowing he'd be loved and cared for and spoiled rotten :).

    Maybe one day whoever left him here will drop by to see how he's doing. I'm sure they'd be pleased to see what a loving and happy sheep he's grown into :).
    Saturday, March 24th, 2012
    5:19 pm
    Teddy's an Apple fansheep

    At least he seemed keen to try out my iPad 3 when we woke the bottom field wifi access point out of its winter hibernation and checked it was still accessible from our favourite summer loafing-places.

    Look how the sunlight makes his ear glow all pink! }:-D
    Friday, March 23rd, 2012
    2:10 am
    Found one of these in the bottom field.

    (actually just one of the donkeys rolling in a dusty spot) :)
    Monday, March 19th, 2012
    9:59 pm
    been to London to look at a sheep
     The Lamb, in fact.



    I was way too young to have caught this the first time around, as it toured in 1973, the year I was 11 and had my formative music experience with Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. I hadn't even heard of Genesis back then, and only discovered the Lamb years later. I consider it to be the Genesis equivalent of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"; like that album it's a convoluted tale told over a double album's worth of time, and like The Wall at first listening I found it a bit opaque, but subsequent listenings served to cement it as one of my favourite albums ever. And whereas I did get to see Pink Floyd perform The Wall, the Lamb tour was long gone by the time I discovered the album.

    The live performance was as much theatrical stage show as it was music concert, and saw Peter Gabriel dressing up in various strange costumes throughout the performance, most notoriously one with a set of giant inflatable genitals.

    A few months ago I actually had some useful spam, in that it mentioned that the Genesis tribute band The Musical Box were to be touring the Lamb this year. They have the support and cooperation of Peter Gabriel and the members of Genesis, and were able to use the original slide sets and props from the original shows. Phil Collins even joined them onstage on a previous tour. With credentials like that I thought they'd definitely be worth going to see, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.

    The music was excellent - the band really did sound like early 70s era Genesis and the lead singer uncannily like Gabriel of that era. The presentation was as fun as I'd been led to exspect it to be and the costumes as bizarre. I could've wished to have been a bit closer, perhaps, but I really can't complain, we had an excellent view from where we were. It was quite something to see a live performance of a favourite album that I never thought I'd be able to see.

    As the gig was in Hammersmith, we stayed at the Novotel - itself quite an historical place for me, as it used to be called the Cunard Hotel and as such was the venue for many of the early Commodore computer shows that launched Llamasoft many moo-ns ago.

    The following day we had a bit of a mooch around London, including a trip to the famous Brick Lane and the Curry Mile, a necessary pilgrimage for all curry lovers visiting London.

    Back home on the Sunday to the baaing sheepies. It was nice to get away for a couple of days and do something a bit different; we don't get the chance too often these days.
    Sunday, March 4th, 2012
    2:02 am
    Who mentioned Digestive biscuits?

    Not often you get to see everysheep in one picture!
    Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
    2:06 pm
    BIG NOSE is watching you

    So is Non Droopy Ears!

    Friday, March 2nd, 2012
    4:53 pm
    11:18 am
    hay!

    wanna cuddle?
    Thursday, March 1st, 2012
    11:40 pm
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