From BBC’s Planet Earth

Lullyweb had an amazing 2-week trip featuring Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy (very briefly) and France. We stayed in some lovely places and saw some stunning scenery. Many thanks to Jeremy and Wanda for looking after us so well in Germany, and well done little L for your top performance. After wow-ing at the map below, which shows our route - approx. 1900 miles - click it to see all pictures from the trip.

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Lully’s loving her new iPhone 3G. As the picture shows, when you take a walk with 3G you can follow your progress on a map, find whatever you need nearby and get directions.

For Flickr fans, an application called AirMe adds a geotag from photos sent from your iPhone to your Flickr account, adding your location, along with other details like the weather, country you’re in, and camera model used to take the photo, and then places your photo on a map so people can see where you are.

Forget crop circles, they’re so last season. Instead, look to Japan for the newest form of field art. In the small town of Inakadate, Aomori, the rice farmers have deliberately planted four varieties of rice together, and arranged their different coloured leaves into a reproduction of the famous woodblock prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s “Fugaku Sanjurokkei” (36 Views of Mount Fuji). For all pictures, click here.





From The Japan Times

Starring Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Marting Donovan and Chelan Simmons. Directed by Gregory Jacobs. Produced by George Clooney, among others.

Apparently this film didn’t go down too well when it was released, but i think it’s a cracker!! It’s a thriller about a college student (Emily Blunt) who shares a ride home with a classmate (Ashton Holmes) and discovers en route that he isn’t who he claims to be. But it’s not that predictable and, as the snow thickens and he decides to take a shortcut off the highway, they are hit by another car and become stranded in the snow. And then it gets really scary. Well, I’m quite hard to please when it comes to horror / thriller films, but this really surprised me and that’s what it’s all about really. Better than The Orphanage.

For all film reviews, click Film 2008 on the right.

I need help finding a hotel in the south / south east of Belgium. Fruitless internet searches have revealed nothing so I thought I’d post this in the hope of anyone stumbling across it. I’m not looking for a city centre hotel, maybe something in a smallish town, with good beer and good food readily available. So, if you can help, please contact Lullyweb.

This is the winning portrait in the BP Portrait Awards for this year, by Craig Wylie. Click here to see all of the entries.

Possibly the most perfect movie EVER made. Watch it now.

For Lullyweb’s films reviews, click here

I'm as proud of my country as the next woman, but when it comes to good TV dramas, the US has it nailed. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and House are just three to prove my point. The latest I've become addicted to (thanks to Stiffrook and iTunes) is Dexter. Yet another well-written, character-driven show which leaves you begging for more at the end of each episode. Why is the US so good at this? Or more to the point, why are we not? I'm not denying that we have our fair share of good TV, but it's mostly comedy isn't it? Can you name a good, current, long-standing British drama series? I can't. So I turn to American TV and it never lets me down.

Lully spent the day at Wakehurst Place in Ardingly, Sussex. Click photo to see all pics.

It's time for the Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe Festival, both running throughout May.

Finally, there appear to be some good horror films coming up (the Little Pink Doll is a big fan of good horror). Click the article below for more details, plus the two movie trailers below that.

The Orphanage

Rec

For any users of iCal and Google calendars looking to sync their calendars, Busy sync is an excellent programme for two-way syncing with minimum fuss and effort. A free download is available from the BusyMac website.

Photos from Japan are finally ready. Click Pictures Private on right.