Southwell – home to a racecourse, and as I found out today – this lovely minster.

Sent in 1945 fron Southwell in Nottinghamshire, to Willow Avenue in Birmingham.

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Berocca are giving away some ‘blogger relief’ packs….which I guess will contain tubes of their vitamin-c loaded craziness (I love those buggers when I’m suffering from a cold – or jetlag), and some other groovy stuff.

I stuck my name down…might get something nice for free!

Get yourself over to ‘Blog a Holiday Read’ courtesy of Penguin and register yourself smartish. You can receive a free book, on the provision that you blog a review of it.

I got ‘The Great Gatsby’ – and I’m looking forward to reading it this summer!

Logged on to Facebook this morning – and found I had a new design for the Homepage

Everything looks a lot more spaced out – more white space – and the news feed feels much more prominent on the left had side, the sidebar is now on the right and again feels a lot less cluttered – what is interesting, is that there are NO ads on the screen outside the news feed… I have no idea what that means to to the people selling them.

Overall – I like the design – I think you can force it for yourself by clicking this link.

Microsoft AdCenter has been working hard to pick up the pace, looks like the industry is starting to notice!

I’m all booked up for Friday evening– babysitter booked, god is in his heaven!

The nomination list is out for the Mercury Music Prize…

• Adele – 19
• British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
• Burial – Untrue
• Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
• Estelle – Shine
• Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
• Neon Neon - Stainless Style
• Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea
• Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
• The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

The three in italics are the ones I don’t have (or haven’t heard) – so I’ll reserve my judgement until I’ve done that – but I there are some great albums in here. Elbow is my favourite, but I’m not sure it’s a Mercury winner.

It is going to be very hard to choose.