I couldn’t help noticing that a vertical garden is being grown at Bullring in Birmingham. These are nothing new Patric Blanc has been growing them for fifty years, and his latest creation has just been unveiled in Singapore. There are many other vertical gardens.

Boy, oh boy. Some Sundays I set out with great plans and not much happens, then I feel sorry for myself that nothing has happened. Not so today. Since this morning, I’ve been to church, where I played guitar for the first time. I scooted off in the bus to a friend’s after lunch to knock out a fireplace wall. Then back onto the bus back to church for a Taizé service. Phew, but that’s not all, next up was a dinner party with a Dutch theatre artist telling us about a project around rural communities in Wales, where someone brought a beautiful resonator guitar to play for us.

Cool, Google Maps now shows the weather.

I tried to figure out my favourite albums of all time tonight, because I realise that I’ve never sat down and tried to pin them down.
After much agonising, I came up with a definitive list of 58 albums…

I think it needs some pruning.

Last night we ran for our lives from zombies, being chased around parks, shopping centres and churches. The interactive game, 2.8 Hours Later had us hunting all around the city, with some fantastic set pieces like a zombie butcher, zombie scanning centre, zombie hen party and an underground resistance movement. It was all part of igfest 2011 in Bristol.

This problem in Japan has if anything made me more keen on nuclear power. Why? Well, partly because it has prompted me to take a look at the latest reactor designs. Travelling Wave Reactors caught my interest after Bill Gates’s TED talk, however there are problems – they will only be ready in around 20 years, plus they don’t breed any fuel for the future. There’s another design, Integral Fast Reactors which also look interesting, and are here today.

But don’t worry about it too much, as the Bermuda Sun reports: “The damage in Bermuda seems to have been restricted to a few bread rolls falling from the shelves at Lindo’s”

These guys are playing at All Tomorrows Parties this year. Gutted I can’t go.

He’s been in Knowing Me Knowing You… With Alan Partridge, 28 Days Later and even Mission:Impossible, so what was he doing performing upstairs at a pub in town? Well, talking about and demonstrating Dad Dancing, and playing lots of funny videos which can also be viewed on Youtube. Highlights were Katie getting into an argument with a girl who wanted to take her seat; and the bento box beforehand at Mount Fuji, overlooking some hoarding covering the building work at Bullring.

Nice tidbit from the Guardian Guide…

During the filming of Groundhog Day, Bill Murray was asked to hire an assistant to act as a buffer between him and the studio. He deliberately hired a deaf mute who could only communicate in Native American sign language.