I Got You Babe
Mood: Dancing
Listening to: 'I Got You Babe' by UB40
Moon and stars sit way up high
Earth and trees beneath them lie
The wind blows fragrant lullaby
To cool the night for you and I
from 'Higher Ground' - UB40
My computer desk has been taken to bits, ready to move. This is serious - I would never let it go till it was nearly time to move myself. Meantime, both computers have been set up on a gate-legged table in my sitting room.
Got the Mac plugged into a good Yamaha amplifier so I can enjoy UB40 more - | should have done that ages ago, but was pottering along vaguely with the basic round iMac speakers. I'm just lazy, and it doesn't do me any good - what's the use of having things (especially better things) I don't use? It's been remedied now, though, and had a little bop round my living room when it seemed nobody was looking. Unless you count Sharky, but he was fast asleep and didn't pay any attention.
Cherry oh Cherry oh baby
Don't you know I'm in love with you?
If you don't believe I do
Then why don't you try me?
I'm never gonna let you down
Never make you wear no frown
from 'Cherry Oh Baby' - UB40
Using Bryce, I did a little 3D mock-up of the sitting room I'm to move to at Mum's house - it's been a headache deciding where everything has to go, and I thought if I planned it to scale before we started heaving heavy things around, it might help. I'm surprised how big that window is - it takes up most of the upper part of the wall. Nevertheless, it's a dark room, and always has been, especially in this dreary November weather. (Did I say November? I mean June, of course).
Anyway, I was doing this little 3D plan, and was putting some small what-not in the very back corner - and thought, "it's dark in this room, I can't see it properly." (And this is in the computer mock-up!) "Well then," I decided, "I better create a nice light so I can see what I'm doing - and I'll hang it right here, near the what-not."
A warm dry wind is all that breaks the silence
Highways, quiet scars across the land
People lie, eyes closed, no longer dreaming
The earth dies screaming
from 'The Earth Dies Screaming' by UB40
(Still swaying to my intense UB40 CD. In the future world, it doesn't matter where the what-not goes).
I didn't mention this yet to Mum, but next day she came over and said "I've been thinking.... it's so dark in that room. We better get some nice standard lamps to go in the back corners." So we bought a pair of uplighters, and positioned them right where I hung my spherical lights in Bryce...
The night seems to fade
But the moonlight lingers on
There are wonders for everyone
The stars shine so bright
But they're fading after dawn
There is magic in Kingston Town
from 'Kingston Town' by UB40
I have a view similar to that, Bunnyman :-). It wasn't totally random as I picked trees that suited my recollection of the scene - but there are more than two in reality, and a little green hill behind.