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| Friday, January 20th, 2006 | | 1:03 am |
Horrific fur trade -cats and dogs skinned alive
Last week after watching some of the most horrific video footage of dogs and cats being skinned alive in Chinese fur markets I felt so sickened I immediately started to help circulate info on the campaign against the fur trade which is being run at Myspace by Chris and Mary Alice Pollard and aided by Maria Daines who has written an incredible song entitled I am the Owner of this Coat. Here is the main part of a letter we are getting out to people. I have edited out the Myspace part seeing as this is LJ not Myspace! You can get all the details at the link. We are a group of musicians, songwriters and artists on Myspace that are trying to do what we can, in a peaceful and caring way, to bring an end to the fur trade. Real fur from cats, dogs, and captive wild animals, is used to make fur trims for garments, trinkets, and even cat toys, yes dead cat fur for cats to play with.... Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills-McCartney have recently taken part in a BBC TV news programme, to help to highlight the need to stop this terrible cruelty, you can find out more information on this link - DogandCatCruelFurTrade1: Why China ??? Because it is the largest and without doubt the most cruel fur trade in the world....and though they have animal welfare laws that protect cats and dogs in the home .. wildlife in the wild - THE LAWS DO NOT COVER ANIMALS IN THE FUR TRADE so they can do anything to them that they want without the fear of being charged. 2: This is not an anti Chinese/Asian campaign - there are many wonderful groups and individuals working within the country, after all it is they who first exposed this horror to the world ...... by this group we show our support for them - legally they are so limited as to what they can do or say SO THEY NEED OUR HELP :)! The animals caught up in this business are treated in such a cruel manner, that we feel we cannot ignore this issue. This is a trade based on greed and ignorance. If there wasn't a market for real fur then there would not be a real fur trade. Many countries must be buying it either unwittingly or otherwise. And the only way for it to be stopped is if the world says NO and refuses to buy real fur products. That means a lot of people need to know about this and say NO to real fur. It is also sad to learn that real fur is used instead of synthetic material because it is cheaper to process. How cheap is animal life? And why do these poor creatures have to suffer so unimaginably before their deaths? We would like to raise awareness that real fur is being sold around the world, often under ambiguous labelling, such as unknown origin, or even labelled as 'fake' fur. Current Mood:  angry | | Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 | | 1:26 pm |
My friend musician Mike Burn has been holidaying with his family on the nearby island of La Palma so I flew over from the airport in the north to spend a wonderful day in their company. We went to 2 beaches, went in the sea, Mike and I played some guitar (I did a performance on the beach), we had some great food and drink, saw an amazing rainbow and the incredible sea of clouds around the Caldera and mountains and Mike drove me from one side of the island to the other so I had a quick tour and saw a lot of the beautiful countryside and forests. And I mangaged to get back home by the early hours of this morning too. Here are a few pics: View from Taza Corte towards the Caldera  Me and sunset at Puerto Naos  Mike Burn playing my guitar  Another sunset view  Current Mood:  busy | | Friday, December 30th, 2005 | | 8:41 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 | | 6:52 pm |
| | Monday, October 17th, 2005 | | 10:33 pm |
I'm the boy next door apparently!
 | | The Boy Next Door
Random Gentle Love Dreamer (RGLDm)
Kind, yearning, playful, you are The Boy Next Door. You're looking for real Love, a lot like girls do. It might not be manly, but it's sweet.
We think the next three years will be very exciting and fruitful ones for you. Your spontaneous, creative side makes you a charming date, and we think you have a horny side just waiting to shine. Or glisten, rather. You enter new relationships unusually hopeful, and the first moments are especially glorious. If you've had some things not work out before, so what.
Your exact opposite:
The 5-Night Stand
Deliberate Brutal Sex Master
| On paper, most girls would name the Boy Next Door as their ideal mate. In the real world, however, you're often passed over for more dangerous or masculine men. You're the typical "nice guy:" without just a touch of cockiness, you're doomed with girls. A shoulder to cry on? Okay, sure. But never a penis to hold.
More than any other type, Boys Next Door evolve as they get older. As we said, many find true love, but some fail miserably in the search. These tarnished few grow up to be The Men Next Door, who are creepy as hell, offering backrubs to kids and what not.
ALWAYS AVOID: The Nymph
CONSIDER: The Maid of Honor, The Peach |
Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating.
My profile name: barbaverde |
| | Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 | | 9:45 am |
| | Thursday, September 8th, 2005 | | 11:38 pm |
Head in the Clouds...my new column in the Western Sun
Is all about my visit to Aguamansa cloud forest and all the wonderful things I found there. I am very pleased with this story and the editor has used more photos than he usually does. Even my greenbeard pic matches the article! LOL You can read it here but you have to scroll down the page past the motoring bit: Head in the Clouds... Current Mood: accomplished | | Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 | | 6:58 pm |
A mystery object and ´Mysterious Callers.'
'Mysterious Callers in the Dead of Night' is my latest column in The Western Sun and this mystery object was on a photo I took of a lawn in front of a housing complex here. It looks like some sort of interdimensional vehicle just materialised!  Current Mood: busy | | Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 | | 4:30 pm |
| | Sunday, July 17th, 2005 | | 8:01 pm |
The Western Sun features me in a 2 page spread
Introducing me as a regular columnist for The Western Sun newspaper there's a 2 page spread with a photo and it is currently available online too here: Feature about meAnd there's my first feature here if you scroll down past Motoring Matters: Something FishyPris get's a mention too and her pic included I am pleased to say! Current Mood: busy | | Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 | | 11:19 pm |
Mañana is my new lyric
Mañana is my new lyric I have recently come up with a new lyric, which I am hoping I can have a lot of success here in Tenerife with. Looks like my friend Tony Duncan has come up with a tune for this too. Could be my first Europop hit? LOL Mañana Mañana means the morning, tomorrow or another day, On Tenerife it is often said and commonly means delay, Mañana means not now In other words it's coming late, Mañana is an ideal word If you want to procrastinate. Mañana means tomorrow and goodbye until then, We’re waiting for mañana, It'll come but who knows when. Mañana allows a life laid back Where nothing much gets done, Mañana is the way here in this island in the sun. Chorus: Mañana mañana, la-la-la-la-la I'll see you mañana I'll see you mañana Current Mood:  artistic | | Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 | | 10:43 am |
A trip to Masca and cloud forest
Last week I had 2 friends called Taryn and Hamish over here on holiday and I was showing them around the island in a hired car. We went up Mt. Teide and also stopped off at some cloud forest in Aguamansa because Taryn spotted some strange moss hanging down from the heather and pine trees and wanted to investigate. It was actaully the lichen Usnea barbata, which is aka Old Man's Beard and is used for its medicinal properties, and here it grows wild wherever it can get a place to hold it. Often it is mixed in with bunches of pine needles that have fallen and got lodged in the forks of branches. The whole place is very magical and ancient feeling and is carpeted with real moss and many wild flowers grow at the edges. On another day we went to Masca, which is Tenerife's answer to Shangri-la and is like entering another world. There is an incredible road which winds through the mountains and gorge to take you to this village which only has 100 residents and until recently was isolated from the world until the road was made. Here are some pictures:  Masca  Road to Masca  Cloud forest  Lichen Current Mood:  content | | Monday, June 13th, 2005 | | 11:50 am |
| | Monday, May 23rd, 2005 | | 12:30 pm |
Smudge was poisoned :(
I have just had some news which is really horrible but was what a few people thought: Smudge was poisoned. I have just spoken to someone called David who does animal welfare work here and he said he knew who found his body and was told a cleaner later put him in the bin and that another cat had been killed the same way a week ago. David told me there are people who hate cats here and they don't care if its a pet or a feral one that gets killed! So I am right to worry about Tiggy and I will be glad to leave this place if there are people like that here! :( Current Mood:  sad | | Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 | | 11:47 am |
A very sad day and I have been crying
I have been crying badly this morning and am having a very sad day because my dear cat Smudge has died and I have just found his body and had to bury him. I don't even know how he died because he wasn't conspicuously wounded but had been thrown in a rubbish container at the end of the alley here where I was about to throw a bag when I saw him. Smudge has been staying in my bedroom most nights and when he sleeps in the day too but he goes out at night and I leave my door open. Usually when I wake up he is snuggled up on the cover with Tiggy my shecat or he wakes me up with his cries. Not so this morning. Cindy his past owner left early this morning too and I helped her get the luggage to the taxi. I was saying it was so unusual for Smudge not to be here in the morning and Cindy said perhaps he has got stuck in someone else's house and will come back later and that sometimes cats disappear for a day or so. As it was she didn't even get to say goodbye to him and as I write she is on a plane on its way to Guernsey. When I next speak to her on the phone I will have to break this terrible news. I was feeling in such a mess earlier I was crying on Tiggy's fur and I had to decide if I would show her his dead body. I decided not to and I have buried him in the garden outside. I had recently been thinking that eventually I would be able to get a new place for myself and the cats up in the mountains but now it's just dear little Tiggy and me and she has lost her playmate! I have lots of important things to do today including work but I don't feel like doing any of it! :( Here is Smudge in a picture from earlier this year:  Current Mood:  distressed | | Saturday, April 16th, 2005 | | 1:53 pm |
Death Head's Hawk Moth
Some of you will have seen this moth on the posters for the movie Silence of the Lambs, and the other night the pupa I had here of one of these insects I had found as a caterpillar in Candelaria hatched out. The moth was an amazing creature to see and hear - they can squeak loudly! I had to stop Smudge the cat getting it and eventually I let it fly away into the night in the early hours of the morning. Death Heads's Hawk Moths migrate and apparently can travel all the way from Africa up to Scandinavia. They raid beehives to steal honey and there are many superstitions about them! Before this magnificent moviestar moth left I got some great pictures like the one below:  > Current Mood:  awake | | Thursday, April 14th, 2005 | | 9:39 am |
Room to Rent in Shared Apartment
Things are changing fast here and I am going to need a new person to share with and so Cindy the owner of the apartment has been circulating the following ad. I thought I'd post it here so you can all see where I live and just in case!  Front Door  Living Room  Swimming Pool  Bedroom I have a 2 bedroom apartment in Tenerife which I share with my lodger who you all know as Bard of Ely/Greenbeard on this forum. I am trying to sell this apartment, but as this may take some time, and I wish to return to the UK by May, I have decided to let out the second (and largest) bedroom to someone willing to share the apartment with Steve (Bard). This will be on the basis that if any potential buyers wish to view the place, he will show them around, and if they then decide to buy it, I will make sure he has at least 4 to 6 weeks to find another place to move to. The same would apply to anyone he shares with, and it would not be too difficult to find another place for both tenants to continue sharing after the sale has gone thorugh on this place. It may even sell to someone who wishes to continue renting it out, in which case Bard and his lodger could continue to live on in this apartment. I am looking for a reliable person for him to share with, who will not let him down over paying him their rent each month, and who already has work, or can guarantee the rent regardless. They need to be a cat lover and he would prefer a non smoker if possible. The rent will be 350 euros per month including all bills except for the telephone. The person can be male or female, any age, any nationality and someone who is willing to help with keeping the place clean and will not allow it to degenerate into a dirty unkempt apartment, especially when they know people are going to occasionally want to view it and may want to purchase it. It is situated in Costa Del Silencio in the south of Tenerife and includes BBC/ITV Television system, 3 swimming pools on the complex, lots of local bars and restaurants and is a very short walk from local bus services which will take you to all the main local towns within half an hour, e.g. Las Americas, Los Cristianos etc. The second tenant would have use of all the facilities in the apartment, and would only be expected to be willing to fit in with the criteria I have listed here. If you are interested please can you either email myself at cindyannepearce@gmail.com, email Bard at bardofely@gmail.com or post here and one of us will respond. No time wasters please. Thank You. Regards Cindy Pearce Current Mood: busy | | Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 | | 10:28 am |
| | Friday, April 1st, 2005 | | 8:10 am |
I just found out that I'm an Existentialist
| You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
--Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
--Blaise Pascal
More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page...
Existentialism | | 100% | Hedonism | | 100% | Utilitarianism | | 75% | Justice (Fairness) | | 65% | Kantianism | | 50% | Strong Egoism | | 25% | Apathy | | 25% | Nihilism | | 15% | Divine Command | | 0% | </td>
What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
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Current Mood: awakeCurrent Music: none | | Monday, March 28th, 2005 | | 3:40 pm |
A song by America I love
I often spend a lot of enjoyable and inspiring time here wandering about in the desert badlands or malpais as they are known here and I always end up thinking of 'Horse with no name,' a hit song by America which I do a cover of. Somehow the real deserts here bring the song to life. It is an incredible lyric which can be viewed as some sort of mystical journey I like to think. While I am out walking I love to take pictures of some of the plants and rocks and "things" I encounter. Here are some recent images and the lyric of the song:  Some desert near Costa del Silencio and the Yellow Mountain Horse with no Name Written by Dewey Bunnell, ©1971 On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la ... After two days in the desert sun My skin began to turn red After three days in the desert fun I was looking at a river bed And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la ... After nine days I let the horse run free 'Cause the desert had turned to sea There were plants and birds and rocks and things there was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with it's life underground And a perfect disguise above Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la ...  Auluga which dries out like a tumbleweed  Prints of wading birds in a dried up desert pool.  Ice Plant, a strange little flower which has crystals on its leaves and stems  Cardoncillo (Ceropegia fusca) a succulent relative of the Milkweed on which the Monarch Butterfly feeds  A rabbit had died and decomposed on the caked mud of a dried up desert pool right next to the poisonous and hallucinatory Devil's Weed and I wondered if the poor creature had poisoned itself. Whatever happened to it it would be recycled and thus there is both life and death here. Current Mood:  contemplativeCurrent Music: Horse with no name |
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