Yesterday was a sad day thanks to the news that John Peel has died. Radio just won't be the same without him on Radio 1 playing music by obscure bands, or listening to Home Truths on Saturday morning. It's nice to see that the new bands stage at Glastonbury will be renamed as the John Peel stage. A fitting tribute to someone who cared passionately about music.

I was ill over the weekend and Monday with some sort of food poisoning from pea and ham soup, of all things. You live and learn! Strangely it was from a can, and I didn't think canned things could be dangerous (unless the can is 'blown'). Come to think of it though, I have been ill from canned chicken soup before too. Hmm. I think perhaps I should just start avoiding canned soup? It's probably full of all sorts of crappy chemicals and GM stuff anyway.

Surprise surprise - foxes are actually not very nice and kill things. Yes, that's right. They're not just fluffy and cute, you hunt protestors! Can you tell I'm still angry at foxes in general for killing my chickens? Hmm.

I had a pretty good weekend. On Saturday we went for a walk down the road at the back of my house. I hadn't been down there before, but it is excellent for walking, being a single-track country road with hardly any traffic. We did a circular walk through Inglesbatch, Priston Mill, Priston and Nailwell. Apart from a company Christmas bash in Priston Mill a couple of years ago, I haven't been to any of these villages before. This is a shame as they're very pretty, and so close to my house that it's bizarre that I haven't walked through until now. I must go for walks for the sake of exploration more often!

Last night we saw Arcadia at the Bristol Old Vic. It was very good. It got me wondering about the Old Vic though. There is a massive space at the front filled by nothing in particular (stairs and stuff, but mostly empty space) yet the theatre itself isn't particularly big. The space it does have is provided by being very 'vertical'. One wonders why it has ended-up like that. Perhaps I will look into the history of the place a bit, when I get the time...