£1m vase smashed & Can I come too?

An artist smashes a vase reportedly worth £1m in a South Florida museum in protest at the museums lack of local art on display. 

The artist Maximo Caminero was seen by a security guard to pick up the vase and when told to put it down he smashed it. 

The vase's creator is AI Weiwei go on try pronouncing that name again and getting anything but weewee! Anyway if the vase was anything like the ones in the pic he should be able to whip one out in no time at all!  - - - - - 

The gene pool almost divested itself of one specimen who would not have been sorely missed when this young Chinese man jumped into the white tiger enclosure of a Chinese zoo 

 After goading the animals by leaping around and shouting at them, one ran away but the other grabbed him only to "spit him out" obviously realising he was not a "haute cuisine" offering. 

His idea was to offer his body to the tigers in order to improve their living condidtions! - - - 

Ttrainers with power laces just like the ones in the film "Back to the future" are to be on sale soon

 In the pic are "the trainers" and Marty Macfly who appears to be checking if his "Trainer tamer" insoles are in situ. 

The story relates that a developer told the website http://solecollector.com/ "Are we gonna (sic) see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!" Could have been a slack day at R&D but no doubt they will be a popular buy - - - 

Closer to home 

The final bit of clearing away in our winter garden project was sealed with a trip to the recycle dump yesterday.  Although now that the "decks are clear" I stood there observing the scene and started imagining what I could do next "real gardeners" will know what I mean - - - 

A friend sent me the weather splash from the Maldives yesterday in an e mail 

with snow and hurricanes? Mmmmmmm  but I rather fancy the still shot I got from a resort webcam a few minutes ago for the "real picture" 

Looking pretty good!!

With only 2 days before we set off for the Maldives the suitcases are much in evidence and as usual as soon as you open anything a cat can get into it will, little Sainsbury obliged here 

It does appear though that he's hinting at "Can I come to"
He's booked into a rather swish cattery Kool4cats which he has been to before so here's hoping he'll be ok.

The dry stone wallers are back in the Organic Garden project, now officially called "The Kitchen Garden" to finish off the wall which runs down our drive so after many years of rocks falling out of it its going to look very smart when completed.
I'm not sure if there's any work going on in the garden today but I shall offer my services If I see the girls pottering.

Enjoy the day

Follow this link to see  our weather website

Or this one just to see  the streaming birdfeeder cam