Contrail vs Cloud

Contrail: "Woah, excuse me, coming through..."

Cumulus: "Argh! Watch it pal, you're gonna cut us up!"

Contrail: "Sorry can't stop now, got places to be..."

Pyrocumulus: "What your hurry?"

Contrail: "Well, I guess I have been rushing for hours now. I could do with a rest. Might_just_chill with you..."

Pyrocumulus: "It is pretty sweet down here, and you can catch a few rays too."

Contrail: "Right, right, a few rays, yeah. Hey, what's happening? I feel a little s p a c e d_o u t, l i k e, I' m_l i t e r a l l y__s p r e a d i n g__o u t___h e r e!! W o o a h..."

Cumulus: "Pff, just like all the others."

Return To Cookie Mountain

After recently watching 'Stranger Than Ficiton', I got a sudden urge to bake thanks to Maggie Gyllenhaal's character Ana Pascal. So I scanned the web, shunned a few suggesting ready made American cookie dough and came across David Lebowitz's recipe for a classically scrummy cookie, but amended a little as to suit me.
Either take a look at his, or follow the recipe below:

1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (100 grams) firmly packed demurer sugar
8 tablespoons (100 grams) unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1cm cubes
1 large egg (whisked)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda/powder
1 large cup (175 grams) plain flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 big bar (200 grams) chocolate (normal - not cooking chocolate)
1/2 cup(100 grams) walnuts or pecans, crumbled

Adjust the oven rack to the top 1/3 of the oven and preheat to 300F (150C). Line three baking sheets with grease-proof paper.
Chop up the chocolate into 1/2cm chunks.
Beat the sugars and butters together until smooth. Mix in the whisked egg, vanilla essence, and baking soda/powder. Stir together the flour and salt, then mix them into the batter. Mix in the chocolate chunks and nuts.
Scoop the cookie dough into 2-tablespoon (10cm) balls and place them, spaced 4 inches (10cm) apart, on each of the baking sheets (they spread).
Bake for 20 minutes, or until pale golden brown. Swap the trays over half way through. When done remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
Store at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

(Little did he know it makes about 15-20 cookies).

Alone again or

One loves to be alone, and one loves alone.

WALL.E - love, tears and garbage

WALL.E effortlessly bridges the beginning and end of cinema of the 21st Century. Half of it is technically a silent film yet visually and sonically it presents the advanced animated technology of today, but it doesn't ever lose its point; that it's simply a classic love story.
This film provokes tears - in the way It's A Wonderful Life would - and is by far the most ambitious Disney/Pixar movie yet.
One to own in your film collection.

I wish...

This flag was actually part of a recycling project where

children created a flag to show what they will do to preserve Earth.

Maybe flying can save the World...

That's when good neighbours...

...become, well, neighbours.
After a year living above two other flats it occured to me that the occupants and I hadn't said anything more than a passing "hello". So I gave an invitation for an evening of drinks in my flat and, prepared for refusals, was very pleased when they accepted. Thursday night comes along and nerves kick in. What happens if they're painfully dull? Or what if they really don't like me? There's the light rap at the door...don't panic. The neighbours independantly nose around the flat, offer some wine, and start chatting. We all start chatting. In fact three hours, and a few bottles of wine later the night comes to a close without a moment of tension.
The following morning the man on the bottom floor had posted through a card, and one line simply read: "Communication with neighbours is a fine thing, is it not?"

Is it not?