"When you pay up to 1,900 times more for something, you expect it to be worth it, but when it comes to bottled water most of the benefits are pure fantasy. What's worse, most bottled water companies hide the truth about their product in order to keep this profitable scheme going." - Dr Mercola. Source: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/21/best-and-worst-bottled-water-brands.aspx  

Fun Free Quiz for Burns Night

"The idea (of Lucifer) really is a recognition of two different levels: one, the archetypal level of the collective consciousness of your planet, when viewed through a negative matrix. The other being the recognition that there were among the Anunnaki disagreements, discrepancies about how things were being done and one band was cut off from the home world and left upon the earth, and thus represented the concept of the fallen god, the fallen angels." - Robert JR Graham Source: http://robertjrgraham.com/2010/11/01/the-origins-of-lucifer/  

One of my t-shirt designs has been chosen by Zazzle With Pizazz. See it here:  http://zazzlewithpizazz.blogspot.com/2011/01/liverpool.html#comment-form

One of my photographs has been used by The Wirral Globe.   It would have been polite to ask my permission first. Source:  http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8794988.Hilbre_Island_to_be_without_a_custodian_as_council_struggles_to_find_lone_ranger/

"Galileo Galilei...supported Copernicus’ view that the Earth orbited the Sun, a “heliocentric” theory which the Church declared contrary to Scripture...  Giordano Bruno not only supported the heliocentric view, he also claimed there are multiple worlds beyond Earth, each orbiting their own sun....  The idea of aliens and multiple worlds is not new for the Church.... The Vatican even sponsored an astrobiology workshop in 2009. "Philosophers have been grappling with the implications of alien life for hundreds of years, if not longer. But until aliens are found, says (Vatican astronomer Brother Guy) Consolmagno, these issues will remain in the realm of science fiction instead of religion or science.   “I think that’s a very important role that science fiction has to play, because at this point we’re just playing with ideas,” says Consolmagno. “We’re just exploring the space where the ideas could be. We don’t know – we don’t have the answers. That’s why it’s ...

Chester was lovely yesterday - new jeans for Richard, new summer tops for me.  And as we paused at the Café Rouge, we had the unexpected pleasure of watching Ed Alleyne-Johnson playing his electric violin. When we'd finished our drinks, we strolled over to say hi.  We bought a copy of his latest CD, Argpeggio , which I'm playing right now as I prepare to finish writing another scene in Fabian . The video below will introduce viewers both to Ed's music and to Chester itself, which is easily one of my favourite places.