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 Cley church We set off in fairly good time this morning, down to the quay and Blakeney we headed off on the coastal path/sea wall out towards the point then back in land to Cley. There was a lot a fine rain showers as we headed out but as the day progressed it got increasing brighter and the sun started to break through the clouds.
Once at Cley we headed through the tight high street, and out the other side if the village and then along to the NWT visitors center. We had lunch at the center and I bought a book that has a chapter devoted to Lee Evans down fall, it is called “Tabloid Birding” (get this confirmed).
After lunch Nancy and Sallie headed back by bus via the git shops, and we headed in land to eventually do a loop round to the opposite end of the village, of Blakeney. We stopped off a Cley church a grand building and passed through Wiveton.
 Blakeney harbour By the end of the walk my feet had pounded enough ground and I was ready for a glass of Admans from the mini barrel we purchased at the Adnams shop a Holkham, pure nectar after the long walk.
 Sandringham This year the Sharp (and hangers on) holiday is taking place in Blakeney Norfolk. We set out with auntie Sallie at 09:30 and headed off to the land of many birds with the plan of stopping off at Sandringham to have tea with queenie. When we got there we were informed that she was not in residence, we let ourselves in and had a look around the house anyway.
Then we set off to the Adnams shop at Holkham for some beer supplies for the holiday. We got to the hut at about 17:00, we are staying at Flinders in Blakeney, it is a great rental cottage, lots of rooms each with on suite.
 Star flower As it was fairly late on in the day we decided to have fish and chips for dinner so Helen and I were despatched to Holt to Angus Road to get some. Helen placed the order but we seemed to get twice the amount that we needed for the eight of us, the person serving seemd to ignore the request for small portions and doubled them all up, (I did not complain).
After eating we all watched the wedding video edited with great skill by Paul from all the footage we collected.
Now we are all looking forward to a week of outdoor living.
 Segoe Hotel I am stuck at the Seagoe hotel in Portadown, Northern Ireland and tonight was my third night. I have been working my way through the menu, I don’t eat meat but I do eat fish so the options can sometimes be limited.
Monday was fish and chips, Tuesday King Prawn stir fry and tonight was a revelation.
I ordered the fritata with gorgonzola and caramelised onions. The combination was a synergy, the sweet onions counter balanced the gorgonzola perfectly. Gorgonzola being a strong cheese can often over power everything but it did not.
The fritata was actually more like an omelette but it was delicious.
I hope you have all been using Google’s instant search features. Just to remind yiu you need to be logged in to Google and go to the google page to do your search, searching from the browser search or address bar does not do it. When you search Google presnts the search results as you typen not just the old suggested stuff that appears in the search box but the full results for what you have typed.
Any way it turns out that there are some words that that cause the search results to “white out”. It seems that iif you type a rude or offensive word as you type Google the ajax code somehow is triggered to white the page out. This will open up some interesting stuff.
If it happens you kind of wonder what you have done to cause it. Have you searched for something you shouldn’t or just made a typing error? You can imagine that if you notice someone on google and you see the screen blank, you will wonder what they had done, it is sort of an invasion of privacy.
This also has some implications for some people and companies, as some will fall foul of the trigger words. For example Bitch Magazine, Scunthorpe Council, a Russian name that start Urinea!
Google also get a lot of statistics about how we search and type. The search feature waits for pauses in your typing before presenting in the results, this means they get a real insight into the way you search, do you type the whole lot, or just a word then add more words until you find what you want?
Only time will tell what the trigger word are, how they will deal ith peoples name clashes.
 Quite a busy weekend, but Helen and I needed to get out into the fresh air. Saturday had been spent at John Lewis trying to spend some of our wedding gifts, on a new sofa (and television!), then Abida a Connie came round for something to eat before we went to see Chris Packham.
We started off at the church just off the village green at The Lee, the weather was bright, with blue skies and blue cumulus clouds. The perfect opportunity to try out my newly purchased filter holder for the LX3, I could feel the polarising filter was needed. We crossed the green and headed down a track that leads to the edge of the common via some woods. We passed a group of barn buildings called the Old Garage I wander what they looked like in days gone by. We walked through the woods parallel to the common until we reached Ballinger Bottom where we crossed the road.
There were loads of mushrooms about but it took a while to get our eyes in! We walked on until the field on the left became woodland then we took a left through the woods, along what looked like a really ancient path way, the trees either side of the path looked very old and gnarled.
We were about half round at this point so we looked out for a suitable path leading left back towards The Lee. Once followed we found ourselves out in the open again, strange though there was a very wide (25m) avenue of grass that ran the length of the field right to the edge of the village. The habitat for mushrooms was very different so we saw quite a few different species from those in the woods. One in particular was giant, about 10 inches across and a foot high, looked like a parasol, perhaps that is what it is called.
 Once back at the village we turned off the road and across the allotments and back onto the common where I took a picture of the cute house that Steve’s parents live in. We rejoined the path we took on the way out and eventually crossed back across the green. There was a tree with really tasty red apples in it, I was a bit surprised toi be asked by a group of people whether they were edible of not.
That was a great walk, another time we might extend it a little and find time to visit the pub on the green called the Cock and Rabbit. They serve Italian grub.
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 Tamara Drewe film poster The trailer suggested a British comedy, about an attractuve girl returning to a rural village she once lived in and had had connections with existing people currently living there.
The people living there a couple who run a writers retreat od the witers within, a local odd job man, and a couple of teenage girls who hang out at the bus stop.
The film is your typical british comedy with all the cliches you would expect. I found it funny. It is not up there with the comedy classics, but well worth watching.
 Film poster the men who stared at goats the title of the film and the A list actors suggested this film could be fantastic. Sadly it did live up to my expectatiions. Having said that it was an original story.
Basically Ewan McGregor is a journalist who ends up in the middle east war zone, after his marriage breaks up. He meets up with someone who he had heard of whilst doing a story for his local paper years before.
This leads him to enter the war zone and find out about a secret section of the us army who use mind power to beat then enemy, and the experiments done where goats were killed by being stared at!
It has it’s moments but I would not recommend to the average film goer they might be disappointed.
 Went to a talk by Chris Packham at the John Collet school in Wendover this evening. He is a very good public speaker and his enthusiasm for his subject matter is inspiring. The talk was loosely based around his passion for photography with a sprinkling of interesting facts about the animals and bird kingdom. Birds featured a lot, which is always a plus point with me.
He also did a really good job of putting across his usual message, which is that we should try to make the most of what we have around us and go a look at nature for what it is, don’t just go out there to get the ticks. He is a great advocate of promoting the less promotable species that need help. The door mouse already has lots of money ploughed into it’s conservation and it is a boring mammal, what about all the other less cuddly species that need help for example Britains rarest mammal the Black rat!
A couple of the things I remember well are his story of how when he was young he found a blackbird carcass which was being buried by grave digging beetles. He dug it up put it in an aquarium and sat it on top of the TV. So for a few weeks he could watch the beetles as the buried the blackbird. he also did a section about animals that get rid of excess slat in their snot, and even birds that live of the snot of other animals when times get harsh.
At the end he had a bit a a rant and asked everyone to get the kids out and about exploring nature, because unless that happens then they will not grow up to have the respect for nature that it really needs in the age of disappearing habitat.
 Apparently I can add Flickr images to my posts, here we go.
 Google search Google have updated their search page, now when you start a search you not not have to press the enter key or button to do the search, the results appear below the search box as you type. I suspect that it waits for a slight pause, the displays, as you type more stuff the search results get updated. This is not the suggested search terms that they have been providing for some time, it is much much better than that. Here is a screen shot of the thing in action.
This is will probably have the effect of shaking up the SEO market, as the way websites will appear at the top of the search results will change some what. You will need far few words before the results appear!
The adwords market may also be affected, not sure how though. The ads appear as you type also, this means that for example if you type “oil” you get ads for oil spill kits, (BP might be responsible for that!), but then if you add the work “tank” the ads change and you get oil tanks adverts. You can see how this is different the user has seen two sets of adverts, and one of the set was for the wrong thing, but the user may have eye balled them.
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