Today brought two new friends to us in the form of Zebra finches: Damon and Jarvis after Blur and Pulp pop artists.

This keeps the "music theme" going with our birds although not a Beatle connection as previous- suppose Noel and Liam are coming soon????? No well! - not yet as we've only room for 10 finches(we've now got 9-Paula has cudly toys named Liam and Noel though!!) and a third is due with potentially the name Bert, after the very talented guitarist Bert Jansch who incidently has his "Black Swan" new album out on the 24th September 2006. So we look forward to the arrival of both!!hehe!!

Well City lost!! Well done those Reading FC players first big scalp of the season! I hear the roads were somewhat congested. Did we go? no watched it on Sky Sports 1 -good open game I thought-The red card -well the hand or arm was there but didn't seem like intent but Referees have to make split second decisions which I prefer to video hesitation and camera angles and new software which can tell where the ball was made. People play football computers don't in the Premiership!

Mike Schmid provided us with 2 albums on cd ( www.mikeschmid.com ) { "Mike Schmid" & "The high cost of living (a love story)"both of which are excellent with tracks like "Dear Me". Mike works alongside Samantha Murphy in USA to great effect. I'll urge you to check out Samantha Murphy's album "somewhere between starving & stardom" which I/we cannot put down -so good!!!! ( www.samanthamurphy.com ) There's great videos on youtube website (via Samantha's site) and a "Myspace" website too, loads to see and sample. www.cdbaby.com can also supply album by both artists plus other independant musicians at what I think is a great price range (though Samantha's works out $5 cheaper via her site if you take her newsletter at the same time , at the moment (newsletter Number 50 arrived in my inbox today).