Just spent a very nice couple of hours or so listening to Hem play at
the Borderline. A more melodic bunch of people you couldn't wish to
meet.

On another matter, why is it that there is a red sea, a white sea, and a
black sea, but there is no green sea or blue sea (which, you would think
would have been obvious choices when all this geographical
naming was going on)?

Kate's Blog...

Kate has changed her blog - you can now tune in to her thoughts at Queen of The Slipstream

I encountered one of those annoying little questions of trivia the other day that keep you (well, me anyway) awake at nights: what is the difference between degrees Celsius and degrees Centrigrade? It turns out that there is, in effect, no real difference (and therefore I could have saved myself about 10 mintues of sleeplessness).

I managed to catch some of the Sky News footage of the current scenes in Baghdad before lunch, and among the carnage and cruelty of war there are some humorous images.

There was an image of a man beaming at the camera (and eveyone around him) while he held a poster of Saddam with one hand, and beat it with a slipper held in the other. Ocassionally some other passerby would stop to give the poster a kick or a whack which the the slipper holder was happy to accomodate, and then he would resume slippering Saddam's image in between yelling out (obviously anti-Saddam) epithets.

Looting amongst the general population seems to be the order of the day, and amongst the articles being joyously carried off by the Iraqi civilians from Saddam's palaces and the government buildings were:

• a couple of office chairs
• boxes of stationary
• a pot containing a large bunch of colourful artificial flowers (the new owner seem particulary happy with his find)

Such are the spoils of war.

Well, everybody's gotta grow up sometime.

Seems that Charlotte Church is in trouble with her mother for wearing a T-shirt with a dodgy slogan, in this case "My Baribie is a crack whore". While it's probably a commercially ill-advised choice of wardrobe as regards her career, it's the sign of someone getting old enough to be able to express their own opinions, and it's possible that she might even make some new young fans as a result.

I did catch her a few months ago when she was guesting on "Have I Got News For You", and she actually came across as being quite intelligent, but also sweetly self-deprecating at the same time (it's always nice to find a true sense of modesty in a celebrity).

All power to her I say.