Geldof: Idiot

Sir Bob. He's a right prat. OK so live aid was a good thing in the 80s when everyone was so terminally, utterly, irredeemably self-absorbed that a concert highlighting the plight of Africans was a good thing (even though it actually didn't do anything to help them) - but what's really annoying about Live Aid is that it spawned Sir Bob. Who has in turn spawned a number of other inexplicably famous Geldofs...

Geldof's latest inspired public relations stunt is the "definitive record of mankind" - see what the Guardian has to say about it:

"He said that while the plan was designed to make money, it was not his primary motivation.
Geldof said he had been nurturing the idea for more than 20 years since he travelled to Africa for the first time.

He recalled sitting on a tree stump, gazing out over a "moonscape", and being told by a regional governor in northern Niger that more than 300 languages had disappeared in just two years during the famine that prompted Live Aid in the mid-1980s. "I thought, why don't we compile a record of every single culture that exists?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2059618,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

Dear god, I actually hope it is because Peaches, Pixie, Pineapple and Prickly Pear need a bigger allowance, because if he's actually saying "I sat on a tree and thought why don't I write an effing big list", and that gains momentum, then there's no hope.

Savage Garden(ers)

Bill, Anna and lil' Liam visited this weekend, and were immediately put to work assembling the outdoor heater (oh yes, there's now an outdoor heater blighting the Hil Top), sprucing the garden, cleaning the bbq, and resurrecting our herb garden. They did a great job, and are most welcome back (about once a week, on a thursday afternoon perhaps?).

Borough Market, Natural History Museum, Cafe Prov, Greenwich Observatory, fish and chips, the Masters and a lot of chocolate later (although not necessarily in that order), they have now returned to Plymouth after a very successful visit - organised slickly by Loz - a very happy Easter!

Spot the cheerful butcher in the background? Or the curious lady at the flower stall who seems to think she's being unjustly 'papped'?

Someone blended in effortlessly...

And there was an odd gypsy violinist, just in case it wasn't quite dickensian enough...

On to the crowds at the museum, followed by fun on the Hil 'o with fish and chips and our not-the-least inelegant heat source...