Well here I am in Sutton with Niki, surrounded by rabbits and cats. Actually we've hardly seen the cats, it's just too hot for them indoors and I suppose as the rabbits are housed in the rabbitry we're not technically surrounded by them. This amount of animals in this kind of weather is such fun, I thought they'd started farming flies as well when we first got here

Anyway, it's a ridiculous hour of the morning, especially considering that I didn't go to bed until somewhere around 1 this morning, although that does mean that I did get more sleep last night than I have for the last week or so, weird!! My mind has been unable to settle on anything much since yesterday lunchtime and probably wont until I get back home, I find that being surrounded by chaos (or at least something akin to it) causes my thoughts to become more chaotic and less connected, so these blog entries could be interesting for me to read back once I'm back home and more focused

So here's a thing, I was watching the Tennis yesterday and suddenly wondered (for the first time ever despite the fact that I have watched Tennis on a number of different ocassions before), what do they do with the old balls when they swap them for new ones? Do they get donated to a local amatuer Tennis club? Do they get donated to local schools or youth clubs? or do they just scrap them? Also why do they need to change for new balls? Do the old ones loose their bounce after a dozen games or so? Do they breakdown in some way so that if they were to continue playing with them they would start to fall apart? and if technology has advanced the design of Tennis rackets a hundred fold in the last twenty years then why has no one redesigned the balls so that they don't need to be replaced?

I bought Classic Rock magazine yesterday on the way down here and it contains a list of what are supposedly the "100 best blues rock anthems". Now I don't know exactly who has decided on what tracks go into this list and at what number (mainly because like most people I suspect I don't bother reading the page long introduction to the list and just start going through it to see if I agree or not) but I must say that a lot of it is crap. Now I know that some of this is personal taste but just how anything by Gary Moore, Status Quo, Whitesnake, and Deep Purple (too name just a few) can possibly be placed above Stevie Ray Vaughan in such a list is completely beyond my understanding, and I can't believe that "Crossroads" by Cream was number 1

Here's a thing, in the late 1960's the guitarist from American band 'It's A Beautiful Day' went to India (as did a lot of musicians) and heard a traditional India song played on traditional Indian instruments, he took the basic theme of that song and the band turned it into their song 'Bombay Calling', the following year Deep Purple recorded and released their 'In Rock' album and on this album they recorded the track 'Child In Time' which is based quite heavily on the track by 'It's A Beautiful Day', then in the nineties a Bollywood film (the name of which slips my mind at the moment) was released and on the soundtrack was a song which was basically the original India piece of music but was obviously arranged in the style of 'Child In Time', it's a kind of circle of life but with music.

I've got to go and rest my brain for a while now, but I'm sure I'll be back later (though not necessarily later today), see y'all