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This is pretty good too...I really enjoyed it, following-on from the brilliant Kraftwerk.
Have a go...

Every evening has a song, or two, that best summerises the feeling...and tonight for me it is Kratwerk, with this track...please enjoy it too;

Took my mind away completely..well, even more than usual!

Kraftwerk: Aerodynamik
Perfection Mekanik
Aero Dynamik
Materiel et Technik
Aero Dynamik
Condition et Physik
Aero Dynamik
Position et Taktik
Aero Dynamik.

March 2004

In a telepathic drive
what A-Z ceased to see
was the miracle to survive
a primus battle of unequaled degree

Candlelit savoir-faire on a breeze
received when fear struck paralysis
the closeness only love foresees
within the warm embrace of harmonic analysis

Broken down into days of attrition
and hourly struggle to stay afloat
enduring 4-minute orthopaedic rhetorician;
meek words of spectacularly little denote

In turning left better than right
blood flows in impressive afterglow
free movement, free will; the mind's line of sight
like two Iberian palms entranced by tidal flow~~

written by lauren6
just now, online

It is a trip that Richard Branson would be proud of.

But unlike the high-flying entrepreneur, this cross-continental traveller has no high-tech navigations systems to fall back on or jet propulsion and even more amazingly she weighs just 100 grams.

Yet a female blackbird has still managed to make an epic journey of 1,700 kilometres from north Norfolk to Finland in just three weeks.

Details of this record-breaking flight have just been received by the British Trust for Ornithology, based in Thetford, who said that in the past century only 13 blackbirds ringed in Norfolk have been seen in Finland.

And the fact that she completed the trip in three weeks, averaging at around 60 or 70 kilometres a day, makes it an even more outstanding feat of endurance.

Bird-watcher Ashley Saunders, who ringed the bird's leg at a winter feeding site at Kettlestone, near Fakenham, at the end of March, said it was quite a surprise to hear of her arrival so quickly in the Scandinavian country on April 23 when her ring was checked by a bird expert near Helsinki.

"During the winter we have quite an influx of Scandinavian birds coming here to winter in Norfolk and they are quite faithful to certain areas so she would have gone back to Finland to breed in the Spring. But the time span to make the journey is very interesting," he said.

"She would have had to feed up prior to the trip, especially as the first part was over the North Sea.

Birds fill their bodies up so they can make that extra push as they have to do it in one hit. She would have done that part at night when there are fewer predators and more chance to have a clear run and also be able to navigate by the stars and the moon.

"She would have been able to feed and rest in Denmark and then southern Sweden before the final flight to Finland. She would have been in a hurry to get back to get the best breeding sites. In a winter migration they are more relaxed about it."

Mr Saunders, who lives at East Barsham, near Fakenham, said he had been a ringer with the BTO for the past three years and they would normally expect mainly blue tits and great tits at the feeding site and it was quite unusual to see a blackbird there at that time of year.

But he believes the bird was probably born in Finland and as he estimated her to be over a year old he thinks it was not her first migration to Norfolk.

"It will be interesting to see if we recapture her again next year," he said. "The chances will be quite slim."

But records of birds returning to the same sites year after year are not unheard of. Last January the EDP reported on Homer the blackbird who was found to be migrating from the same garden in Thetford to the same garden in Devon every year.

BTO ringing officer Mark Grantham said it was very rare to be able to show what hundreds of birds are probably doing in migration.

"We are very privileged to have this information," he said.

From EDP

A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting thru the garage, to come to this little play-place they call an office. As I opened the garage door, I startled a large moth, which, upon spreading it's wings, displayed a bright red "tail" hidden by the motley brown wings, more a "butterfly" than a moth. It flew immediately to its perceived escape, the circle-topped window where it frantically tried to exit thru the invisible wall of closed glass. I raised the third-car garage door in hopes of aiding it's escape. That caused it to fly higher and higher and become entangled in a spider web. Fearful that it would remain entangled in the web, I selected a long-handled broom to assist him escaping the tangled threads. At this, he returned to furiously pumping his wings and banging into the glass, which was, in his perspective, the pathway of escape, but remained his cage. By simply turning his focus to one side, he would have easily exited his prison. Rather, due to his intent on one direction, he remained confined, captive.

by Joie Lake, Source Unknown

A real classic favourite of mine, from 1990...Adamski and the also great, uncredited, Seal...This song, "Killer" from May 1990 was a No.1 for four weeks, for once a well merited reign at the top.

Adamski (& Seal): Killer
It's the loneliness that's the killer

So you want to be free
To live your life
The way you want to be
Will you give, if we cry
Will we live, or will we die
Ohh

Tainted hearts heal with time
Shoot that love so we can
Stop the bleeding
Oohh

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live
Solitary sister
Is there still a part of you that wants to give

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live
Solitary sister
Is there still a part of you that wants to give

If we try
And live our lives
The way we want to be, Yeah

Other love
Brother, Sister, Brother

There's no other love
There is no other love no other love like ours
There's no other love
There is no other love no other love like ours
There's no other love

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live
Solitary sister
Is there still a part of you that wants to give

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live
Solitary sister
Is there still a part of you that wants to give

Racism in among future kings can only lead to no good
Besides, all our sons and daughters already know how that feels
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Love, love, love

The interjection of signposting a journey
in poor visibility
a virtual map's power of attorney
transporting me away from this health-facility

My last hope remains
right between the ears;
the mind without constrains
showing anger in verbal bandoliers

Everything has a price THEY say
even a pencil's more than any living soul
now surgeon's tirade must pay
with my ever-tested self-control

Whose stamp of approval?
laying a thump within my heart;
upon decorum's temporary removal
of sanity taken completely apart

One travels endlessly in zoneless places
when injury is undone by healthcare's vice
now, my deeper wound displaces
the hope and belief that life will suffice

My only damaged nerve
has borne the brunt
of those who showed too much nerve
presiding over this irascible spinal stunt

written by lauren6
for my beloved spinal surgeon, who I hope reads this!