How Do You Like It' seems to have been on for ages

 

Maybe it's how he likes it ;) :D :P

 

 

lovely to read the new blog!

 

 

I hope a lot of people get to read it.

I visited the myspace site he has just added - does anyone know what the profit of this film goes towards?

 

editing to say, found it..5% of ticket sales will be donated to the alliance for climate change..

call me a cynic............................

 

 

Edited September 14, 200618 yr by prettyinpink

It's seat price, not profit and that makes a huge difference. A fair sum should be raised.

but what is an alliance for climate change..............I am afraid mankind is very good at pontificating and talking...while things go down the pan around him.

I suspect another talking group where expenses eat the money away,

 

I would like to have solar panels, and a wind turbine on my house..it would be ideal round here, and if all the houses had them in this estate..plus water storage sysytems, I am sure we could generate a good deal of our required energy..

but the prices they charge for these things is prohibitive, I look forward to the Goverment raising the grant on them!

there is too much telling the little folk what the problem is, and not enough of the people in charge doing anything.

I already have 3 huge compost bins, recyle everything and have halved our household waste going to the landfill, and am not a great consumer. but I am afraid it will take a lot lot more to achieve anything - to be honest the only hope is we run out of oil pretty quick, then necessity being the mother of invention, we will have to come up with some ideas fast.

My son and his wife work within the environment albeit on both the education and green side so I hear about it most days. They are organic and by that I mean organic everything to do with the baby even his nappies, the garden etc etc and recycle everything. They were both teachers who came out of teaching and went into the environment. We follow suit to a degree on the recycling side but the organic side is just growing on us as the charity they work for has just opened an organic farm, shop, herds of cows, pigs, sheep etc and they have their own bakery on site, the bread is lovely.. They have a cafe/restaurant on site and y ou can sit and watch the birds in their nests in their woodland walks on cameras as you drink your coffee. They have a classroom at the farm with computers for children or classes to come in and learn about the environment etc and they also do talks to various groups on this and the work of the trust. They are geared up on global warming.

that is wonderful,

 

I would love to move right out to the country myself.

as it is I havent had to buy much veg this summer, I have had loads of french beans, carrots,and salad crops , I have frozen beans to last the whole winter I think.

loads of sweetcorn, tomatoes,chillies and peppers

I still have a freezer of raspberries, and jars of redcurrant and blackcurrent jam. and we had a glut of strawberries, didnt get a chance to make them into jam though! shame our cherry tree didnt give many cherries this year though.

just started harvesting apples, so no more apples to buy for a while,

and hopefully we will get some grapes next year too.

 

all we need now is some chickens..LOL my next door neighbour is always asking if we are going to get pigs like the good life, because I take all his garden waste and cuttings for our compost bins too and am always passing them over goodies from the garden.

 

I am also a terror for buying my clothes off ebay or frequenting car boot sales..LOL..much to the horror of my teenage kids, although if I can get away with it I get their stuff there too,

 

I have just got into having a meadow area at the back of the garden now, and earlier this year I had my first wild orchids seed themslves and grow!(I was so proud I put a photo on myspace) next year I really would like to make a wildlife pond.

there really is a lot people could do to live more in harmony with nature and not be so wasteful. it is also such a buzz seeing how quickly wildlife makes itself at home.

 

 

 

You have done really well PIP growing much more than my son and his wife. They have a wildlife pond in their garden but I kept on about the two children aged one and 3 and they have put a guard over it thank goodness. He used to have an alottment but had to give it up when the children arrived as he couldnt give the time to it with his own garden vegetables and his job which sometimes involves taking out groups on various walks and another estate with a big house that the trust own. They have an apple day in october. butterfly and spider walks, looking for various mushrooms etc and many many other events. They have just built a maze at the farm out of haybales and the children love it, it even got a mention in the Mirrors list of mazes a couple of weeks ago.

Despite being a public figure, Darius has the same right as any blogger, any person in fact, to say what he believes in passionately and encourage others to open their minds to it too.

 

For me, the most important part of that blog is the shortest part, the bit that concerns his music.

 

It's the first time in ages that I've been absolutely convinced that Darius is fully committed, focused on his music and brimming over with ideas. I don't care if some of his inspiration comes from his passionate embracing of any particular issue.

 

I felt, rightly or wrongly, that Darius was distracted and took his eye off the ball because of his father's illness and recovery, his break up with Jacqui followed by attempts to keep a transatlantic relationship going smoothly and latterly, committing to life in LA and a ready made family.

 

In my heart I knew he couldn't give up songwriting because it was so much a part of him.

 

I have much the same feeling of anticipation about this 3rd album as I had before Dive In. I have absolutely no idea what it will be like.

 

Darius has taken care to absorb skills from all the amazing people he has had the privilege to work with over the past four years and with his own studio he has the time to put all that into practice in his own fusion to create his own unique songs.

 

I'm excited by the prospect that he may be ready to produce that 100% Darius album that I've hankered for since I first heard the beautiful but non-commercial tracks like Chrysalis, Tear Run Dry, Fragile etc.

It is quite amazing how much you can grow in a garden, in fact we have room to extend the growing area which we may do, we are lucky really as the garden is quite large.and yes ponds are an issue when children are concerned, which is why we have never had one before. now I feel we could have one safely.

I know I am very excited now he has his own recording studio.

myspace could be the future according to many news reports recently, with artists bypassing big labels and hopefully Darius is grasping that fact!!!

Edited September 15, 200618 yr by prettyinpink

Perhaps he'll even consider going the extra mile and create his own label.

 

I wonder what he would call it if he did.

Much as I look forward to the new album, I dont think the immediate future is the right time to release it especially when one looks at the number of stars from the pop idiom who have not been successful of late in their releases. Depends of course what the content is but I have felt that this is the cause for the delay and if it was the content that Baytree talks about, therefore a change, it would have to be marketed and promoted heavily to get that fact across.

Notice the number of plays today on his my space stands at nil. I cant get the songs to play.

its working ok now.

The counts are still 0 though - and they shouldn't be.

They don't appear as nil to me and they've increased since I last looked when I saw a similar post on .net earlier - it looks fine to me.

Edited September 16, 200618 yr by Secret_Song

I even refreshed the page and they were still 0, Just off to try again

Just been back and they are now 135 for me as well, for the first time today - and I have loged onto that site 3 or 4 times.

203 plays today...but that is a common figure for me....I think

 

865 for Journeys End.

 

Baytree I loved what you said about:

It's the first time in ages that I've been absolutely convinced that Darius is fully committed, focused on his music and brimming over with ideas. I don't care if some of his inspiration comes from his passionate embracing of any particular issue.

 

I felt, rightly or wrongly, that Darius was distracted and took his eye off the ball because of his father's illness and recovery, his break up with Jacqui followed by attempts to keep a transatlantic relationship going smoothly and latterly, committing to life in LA and a ready made family.

 

In my heart I knew he couldn't give up songwriting because it was so much a part of him.

 

I have much the same feeling of anticipation about this 3rd album as I had before Dive In. I have absolutely no idea what it will be like.

 

Darius has taken care to absorb skills from all the amazing people he has had the privilege to work with over the past four years and with his own studio he has the time to put all that into practice in his own fusion to create his own unique songs.

 

I'm excited by the prospect that he may be ready to produce that 100% Darius album that I've hankered for since I first heard the beautiful but non-commercial tracks like Chrysalis, Tear Run Dry, Fragile etc

I so hope you are right

I really want to hear something new....but have a fear of it as well as I want him to be successful...

I love the stuff Darius "the pernickety producer" has done on his albums so far. He'll be like a kid in a sweet shop now he's got free rein to twiddle all the buttons.

 

Today, I'll take all my sister-in-law's and all my glass to the recycling depot. The council had introduced a collection service once a month but people didn't do it and so they scrapped it. That's disappointing.

 

I'm not jumping on the Darius bandwagon. I think glass was the first thing I ever consciously recycled. Before that I subconsciously did it when I returned my 'pop' bottles and got the deposit back.

I didn't know they recycled sister-in-laws. Mine is safe as she lives in Canada and very nice. I would be tempted though, just to see if it did work and what she'd be recycled into. My brother wouldn't be too pleased. Although he is always saying that he's going to change her for two twenty year olds.