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Well the new Olympic logo is...well.. is rather well it just is I suppose....not very good. Well that was my first impression of it and when I heard it cost £400,000 to create I wondered what new age design company was busy popping Champaign corks out there.

It makes you wonder if they spent £400,000 on a logo how much they would spend on say the Olympic cutlery! I have a strange feeling and I don't why (I'd love to be proved wrong) but I think the this Olympic games is going to go over budget.  

At last I have finally got around to doing the garden and its started looking a lot better now. Yes I took a picture with a token cat in there, little Lucy (in the picture) has a new past time, we call it spotting newts.

She spends hours just watching them in the pond and occasionally sticking her paws in to try and catch them (she never actually catches any). 

Recently we have found the insect population in our garden has started to decline with the constant snacking of our mogey's on the local wasps, bees, butterflies and any creepy crawlies....

I just wanted to make some things clear. While I do blog about cats occasionally I am by no means a cat person to be truthful I couldn't actually stand the little critters. However my wife was crazy about cats and even before we got married she convinced me that she had to get 2 cats. After some constant nagging and looking very depressed on her part I finally gave in and said we could get two kittens from one of my friends Owen who's cat Cuddles had just had a litter. The funny thing about cats is if you don't like them or show any interest in them they seem to want to be around you more.

One of the cats we called Willow (the grey one in the picture above) decided she was going to adopt me as her main human. This included sitting on top of me or near me at any opportunity, constantly mewing when I wasn't home before 7pm and occasionally using the carpet as a cat litter when I was even later. I had never had any animal attach itself like this to me and I hadn't even shown any interest in her. I suppose Willow started to grow on me and while I am watching TV she will quite often jump on my lap if I am not on my laptop and commence pummeling at which point I give in and start stroking her.

At the moment we now have 4 cats and every morning is filled with cats playing, they have this morning ritual which involves chasing one of the cats through the patio door around the garden, through the cat flap and around again. This appears to happen until the cat being chased is tackled to the ground then the one that attacked it becomes "it" and the whole games starts again filled with constant "meowing" excited grunts and jumping into the air every now and again. At about 11am they calm down and commence sleeping until about 2pm when a new games of "I hide in the box wait for you to come by and jump on you". Occasionally when they are in their frenzied play time they'll run over you in this game of "You're it!" sometimes claws dig in and you jump up chasing them all outside and locking them outside to play their game. In most cases they all hide away from you when one of them has done something bad and venture out later when they think you've forgotten.   

Okay I'll admit the little guys have grown on me, that doesn't mean I like them....does it?

This film has been around for some time now however I can remember the first time my wife and I watched this film it was on a plane back from Zante where we had just had our honeymoon. I did something silly I broke the first rule about animals films, I actually watched it and what was worst I watched it in public.

And yes the story is about 8 dogs that had to be left behind when a huge snow storm starts in the arctic and there's not enough space to evacuate them on the evacuation plane. How the dogs survive by themselves and how their owner (Paul Walker) who was forced to leave them behind tries everything to get back and rescue them when everyone says they would have died by now.

There will be laughter there will be that strange feeling in your throat at the end and that stupid moment when you get some dust in your eyes and it makes your eyes water.

I was in the shop the other day when I heard a little girl say to her mother in the queue behind me.

"Why the f*ck can't I have that Jay's got one!"

I was quite shocked and waiting to hear the mothers response which was

"Well he's f*ckin older than you isn't he!"

At which point I raised by eyebrows and realized why the child actually spoke the way she did, it was believe it or not the parents fault. Its strange now a days I'm not saying I was never a kid that swore when I was younger but if I was ever caught by my parents I would either get a smack in the mouth or my mouth literally washed out with soap by my teachers. Swearing has become such a common part of life in some areas that its just part of regular conversation. Its shocking but it only takes one generation to introduce it as part of everyday conversation and its gets passed on. I suppose swearing which used to be something used when someone was very annoyed or angry doesn't seem to have that same effect anymore.

I've just trying out a new blog writing tool by Microsoft called Windows Live Writer. I usually use Qumana however it doesn't allow you to add new categories to your blog however Windows Live Writer does. My only gripe with both products is the American English dictionary with no option for choosing any other type of dictionary. I am guessing these blogging tools are an American conspiracy to take over the world with their version of English :)

All in all nice tool guys just give us a choice of dictionaries please!

Its been quite a hot topic of debate which appears to have angered most people. Where it is taking place local councils are announcing what a success it has become, while the people served by these local councils are struggling with extra waste one couple in Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire have gone and setup their own refuse collection for the weeks the council doesn't collect it to get rid of the extra waste.

What I find incredibly funny is Richmondshire District Councils response to the scheme. Stating what a success fortnightly collections have been and how residents have paid for waste collection to the council and don't need to pay extra for it. One thing I don't think Richmondshire Council  realizes is that people are doing this because they are not content, because there is a problem.

If councils are going to do fortnightly collections they should at least cut our waste collection bills in half surely if they are only providing half the service they should only charge us half the price? Or unless local councils have suddenly realized that they are struggling to pay for their recycling schemes and need to pay for it by reducing normal waste collections?

I would love to know what wise ar*se at the mobile phone companies, thought it would be a great idea to enable mobile phones to play music on a loud speaker, so that irritating little teenagers and Japanese tourists, could share their lovely taste in music with whole train or bus loads of passengers. I mean why wouldn't you want to hear "Baby hit me one more time" on the pesky little loud speaker of a Motorola Razor phone 20 times. The whole idea of the word personal stereo system or personal music system, means just that...its personal! It means you listen to it through headphones so that nobody else has to. It doesn't mean I'll share what I'm listening to with everyone around me because they just love what I listen to. We know you think your choice in music is just the best in the world and we will take your word for it!