Lizard Spot 05.05

Well after a little absence lizard spot has jumped right up.

Lizard 7 was spotted while at work. It was crawling on the wall behind where some colleagues were eating.
I had to quickly describe to them my fascination with lizards and how I needed to take a photo. Next minute I'm trying to stick my hands down the back of the bench to photo this lizard.
Although I think this is a gecko not a lizard.

Photo 2

Lizard numero 8 was spotted just yesterday. On the way home from the beach with the missus parents. This one was tiny and took a while for me to point out to everyone. In fact I had to scare it a bit to make it move so people could spot it.
This one was so small that it made me wonder how I manage to be able to spot such small reptiles.
Can you spot it?

Photo 2 might be easier?

Lizard number 9 was spotted today as we headed to work. I seen a little rustling about in the scrub beside the path. I grabbed hold of the missus and quickly said "don't move."
As she had no clue, she freaked out and shook thinking something vicious and scary was about to eat her, possibly a t-rex.
I explained it was a different kind of lizard and tried to get a photo of it, but it was to quick and ran away.
Sorry no photo. :(

Lizard Spot: 9


It's not just lizard's that I have spotted.
While heading the beach the other day the missus spotted this guy throwing himself off a wall (a bit similar to what I did a few weeks back)

Photo 2 Photo 3

Also while on the way home late one evening I spotted a big train of ants walking about. Now these were massive ants. Really big. About the length of a finger nail.
This one stood out the most to me, it was trying to carry the biggest sun flower seed I have ever seen.
I recommend you check out the larger photo.

Making a dash for The Future and Teh Interwebs

UPDATED 08 APRIL 2008

You might of noticed a few small changes to the layout of my blog recently.

With moving to Spain I've started to embrace new technologies to enable my family to keep more in touch with me.

Some new features to my blog are you can now easily digg any of my blog posts if you so please.

You can also find my Digg (what I am reading online), Twitter (what I am upto at this minute) and Flickr (what I can see) badges on the side and if you use either of these why not add my to your list of followers/diggers/contacts/friends. The more the merrier.

EDIT: We have now found a decent website for our videos. Check out robbiesherman.blip.tv for video updates of what we are up to.

My birthday and more celeb news

So I had a really good birthday and got some really cool presents. A very generous gift from the missus parents and a new shock and water proof camera off the missus.
The new camera, an Olympus 725 SW, has some pretty cool features, for example it has 25 or so different shooting settings for example potrait (someones face), landscape (nice mountains), potrait and landscape (for photos of the face of mountians?), candle (for erm candles, possibly birthdays?) museum (which just basically mutes the camera).
It also can take photos under water. Which we have tried by sticking the the camera in a full sink and took some shots, but really I need to try this out in really underwater conditions ie a pool or the sea....only a few weeks.

I also have a trip back up North coming up at the weekend. Mainly to celebrate two birthdays. My own, plus my sister is having a baby today. So good luck to her, Paul, Megan and Megans new baby brother Dylan Jack.
But I'll be able to test out the camera fully at the weekend (except for the underwater tests) and hopefully at a Justice gig that's happening that my friend has told me about.

In other news, after my gratitude given towards popbitch in a previous entry, more good news has come for the World of gossip sites;

A statement on the Holy Moly site said there had been a "definite change in the perception of paparazzi pictures".
It will no longer publish photos of stars being chased or in "distress", while photos of celebrities with their children will also be banned.
However, photographs of celebrities at press launches and premieres and "idiots who go to places like The Ivy" will continue to be included on the site.

I know that I can't stop gossip magazines being published, but I think if the people who read them and agree with the above statement, should write/email in to their favourite gossip magazines to show how they feel about the situation, and perhaps if enough people write in to enough magazines then some action will be taken by the magazines and the paparazzi will stop their cruel hounding of celebs in difficult times.

Good news is good news

As some of my previous readers might know I have a huge dislike of all celebrity magazines and gossip columns.
I hate the fact that these forms of tabloid and media will often go to great lengths to report the personal problems of many celebs. And the greater the problem/more fragile the celebrity = the greater the coverage.
My greatest hatred is that of the paparzzi who I think are shameless vile people who really should fall of the face of the Earth and die a horrible horrible death. And I am trying to be nice here.

A few other bloggers have gone over the same thing so I won't go in to too much detail here, but today I did read one thoughtful coulmn written by Popbitch.

For those that know, Popbitch is a UK based email newsletter. It is the only thing I read about Popular Culture. On many many occasions Popbitch have had celeb stories that weren't printed in gossip columns and magazines until much much later.
(Yes I agree there might be a slight of hyprocasy in my entry now, but popbitch does it's reporting in a totally different way ie its contributions, and it never keeps the paparazzi on their payrole.)

So it was with great pleasure that in the latest edition of Popbitch I read;

>> Back to bedlam <<
Laugh at the celebrity inmates

The Sun's Bizarre column had this breast-obsessed take on Amy Winehouse's rehab issues: “It's chest what we all wanted to see – Amy looking almost back to her best. She took a break from rehab... She returned there two-and-a- half hours later, flanked by police. Maybe they were investigating a robbery at a chicken fillet factory.”

Heat's website uses that heart-breaking photo of Britney crying in the street before being carted off to the psych ward to illustrate their “Britney News” section.

Kerry Katona, the wretched bipolar halfwit manipulated across the media by the Dark Lords of PR, is in a MTV reality show amusingly titled Crazy In Love, with promo adverts of her in a straitjacket.

Come on, surely there are enough sane self- important celebrities left to harangue?

Obvisouly the magazine sells it's publications based on what it's readers, us, want to read about. If we keep buying the latest copy with images of Britters being taken off in an ambulance then they will keep printing that.
But hopefully the editors and the people higher up in these magazines who keep their eye on Popbitch will take note of how low they are scooping to sell papers and will change their ways, even if it's slightly.