Ikea covers slight return:

No promises
Originally uploaded by bltphoto

The lp lifestyle mashups are proving popular on Flickr which is pleasing. This one of the fragrant Ms Bruni (from her not too bad lp of English poetry covers) proved popular mainly because she's famously easy on the eye but also rather pleasingly someone (in Brazil I do love the interweb) has "favourited" it in the middle of a number of other pictures, all of tasteful interiors and design ideas thus proving one of my ideas for doing them all in the first place. Anyway I'm off to drink beer and burn food in various gardens stay cool, stay safe, stay pres.....

Gin & lemon granita

Gin & lemon granita
Originally uploaded by bltphoto

It's too hot so I made some frozen gin and tonic

Gin & Lemon Granita
Serves 4(ish)
What you need
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 ½ lemons
Pint of warm water
5-7 tables spoons of sugar
Large slug of gin (I used Hendricks)
To serve: Lemon or mint optional


What to do
1. Dissolve the sugar in water
2. Add the rest of ingredients
3. Taste and add more gin or sugar as appropriate
4. Freeze
5. Break up lumps of ice as they form repeat every 40-60 mins
6. Should form rubblely ice crystals
7. Takes 2-4 hours to freeze

Modern Spies are rubbish!

We can't even do agent exchanges properly! The protocol is : Midnight, mid winter , a frozen river, a sealed off bridge, a lada and a battered Merc pull up,unshaven men in bad clothes, breath hanging in the cold air, the flash of headlamps, a tentative walk, guards with twitchy trigger fingers and a last minute double cross. NOT a easy jet boarding pass, a bad meal and a deal with "Closer" magazine!




The spy who came in from the cold mp3

IKEA POP: summer sale

also available in "gooseberry "
Originally uploaded by bltphoto

During the longueurs in some of the world cup matches and the tennis and having hit a nice seam of inspiration here's a few more Ikea record sleeve mash ups I knocked up. Check out the wonderful retro Agneta one surely the well spring of it all you can even hear the lp on spotify!
working on a retro one. too
oh and this my 1111 post numerology fans!!

Hello space girl!

Always loved Philp Bonds work ever since Wired World etc just found this wonderful set of Female Cosmonauts!!!

A Galaxy far far a way that just keeps on giving

AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.


via @Gerrygreek

Cry God for Brian Blessed

We all know the list of things to survive a nuclear war is quite short: spiders, locusts , Courtney Love and of course Brain Blessed. Brian is a force of nature as well as being a force for good so I was pleased to see him hamming it up with the Henry V speech trying to put some vim into the England side. Unfortunately the BBC intercut Mexborough's greatest son with rather weedy "sportsmen" so I've done an edit of the speech just with Brian's bits. Not sure it will stiffen the marrow of Rooney et al but it will cheer the rest of us up*.



By the way to record it on audacity I had to turn the recording levels down to 40% to stop BB distorting!!!

* health warning BLTP & BBC suggest you remove small children and pet fish from the room before playing this clip.

Cry God for Brian Blessed