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Wisefool, I used to teach Shakespeare and I loved it. I have a passion for helping teachers teach it in a way that is engaging and fun. The main idea when teaching Shakespeare is that they get the "gist" of it, the story. Every single word? Not that important.

When I was teaching up North, we did a project with a theatre troupe that specialized in working with the class in producing an abridged, fun version of a Shakespeare play. I did this as a unit and it was part of their course. The whole school watched and I am pretty sure we created some lifelong Shakespeare fans that day.

This is a great article and I am glad you are encouraging people to "try him again!"

Wow, those shifts sound completely exhausting. That's great that you made it through and I'm glad you didn't have to do it forever. Thanks for the comment!

Hi 2uesday, thanks for reading and commenting. I have never had a greenhouse but I would think peppers could be grown in one.

This is great information! I started a book blog but then let it go because I had so many other blogs on the go. If I ever start again, I will definitely use this as a reference. thanks!

Great info, thanks for sharing it with us.

Very nice to learn about these storage possibilities, it is very important to save our data, pictures, articles and all things we hold dear. Great tips on the cloud, thank you!

Marko, Ewww all great ideas, thanks for sharing your family fun adventures with your son. It's wonderful to hear from parents who've built fond childhood memories. Thanks and Enjoy another great family summer packed with good times building new memories.

Thanks for stopping by, Katie. After being on Wizzley for a month I am still a novice - but so far my experiences are good.

I agree, Katie, it's important to spend as much free time as possible with our family. And if you had fun at that time in the past, kids will definitely like to join you even when they grow up. I am lucky to have such experience with my son - he is a teenager now, but he still likes to go sometimes with me and my wife to do some activities (badminton, fishing or wind surfing).
About the funnest summer activity - well, there were plenty as my son loved and still does) radio controlled scale models (boats, planes, helicopters). You can imagine how many times I was climbing the trees to get small planes which were 'landing' there (OK, I admit - I also was a lousy pilot, too!).

Mladen - I am so devasted that I now have this. I did not know what was wrong with me. It took over my entire body and looked horrible. It is slowly going away. I have a lot of joint pain with it too. I need to go see someone about the possibility of arthritis I guess. I would not wish this on anyone. I hope to be looking better soon so that I can go out in public and attempt to be normal again. The olive oil and coconut oil is great! Thanks for reading and commenting!

I loooove cheese. At home we always used to have cheese after lunch (kind of like dessert) and I learned to love it. From a very young age I went for strong-flavoured cheese (blue cheese and cured cheese are my favourites).

Last night, Alex, Aaria and I were having a bit of a Syd and David Bowie session in YouTube. We were all sitting there typing to each other in Skype, while exploring all of the covers that had been done. It turns out that Alex is already a massive Syd fan; while Aaria converted last night.

One thing that struck me throughout it was the sheer number of bands who had covered Dark Globe. it doesn't surprise me at all that that is the one you've encountered before.

Yes, i am a hardcore fan, though this is mild. 10, 20 years ago, it bordered upon obsession! :)

I've got my eye on the album cover too, but I was thinking t-shirt. When I'm a bit richer, I'm going to treat myself to one. Though such luxuries might be a long way off.

My guess is that you'll have unknowingly already seen a Mick Rock photograph. He took some very iconic ones, particularly in the 1970s.

It's interesting that the first song you mentioned was No Man's Land. That's the one which was in my head for days too. Right now, it's Dominoes (but I haven't written about Barrett yet), but there was a couple of days of Dark Globe too. It's certainly a Syd week.

Woot for winning! Syd evangelism ftw! \0/ You love me.

Everything that I've heard and seen about Lady Gaga makes me know that I should love her. I've just never delved headlong into an album to catch hold of the hook. Some of my most trusted friends, yourself included, love her, which is a great indication.

'Isn't it good to be lost in the woods?' I've had a night like that too. It was amazing and, as a Syd fan, that couplet was certainly on my lips a few times.

Did Lady Gaga reply?

Thank you very much, Shaz! My friend and I were musing last night and we feel sure that somehow has to have hacked telegraphy in the 50-odd years before. We just don't know about it yet. It's my mission now to go and check. If we're right with our instinct, then Maskelyne will lose his crown as the first hacker.

Thanks for the thumbs up and plus one. :D

Great artile on psoriasis. Lots of useful information here! I have met many patients dealing with this disease trough my practice, and it is obvious this is one boring and irritating disease.
I complitely agree with you on the fact that olive oil help reduce itching. Many patients said it helped them a lot. Stil steroids are basic therapy, because this is autoimune disease. We use methotrexate here as well as part of intahospital therapy.

Sooooo, I think it took me twice as long, if not longer, to finish reading this as it took you to write this xP

While I'm almost certain I have heard Dark Globe before from a cover this was in fact my very first introduction to Syd Barrett. I had to listen to every song before reading the bit you wrote about it. It was a fun introduction, and I think I may have also began to notice along the way that you're a bit of a hard core fan. ...Just a bit.

The cover picture with Iggy is freaking amazing. As being the first section in this intense article, I was kind of like, kk no idea who this artist is, but I would totally love a poster of that picture. (I just might have to check out that photographer's other work as well.)

Uuuh, it's been a few days, but I think the songs I liked most from this were No Man's Land, *goes to check* and Golden Hair, *checking more* and Feel...I'm not about to sit here and list back the whole album back to you... if I were far less intensely broke right now, I'd want to get the album. So you win, or something like that. :D

And now it is time for your daily obligatory mention of Lady GaGa...something you wrote about Syd Barrett writing his lyrics reminded me of the GaGa Lady, so this is the reason behind the mentioning... I'm pretty sure she was quoted saying that one is not meant to attempt understanding the lyrics to most of her songs (from her first album I think it was) unless they are rolling. ...SO, one of my friends has a story where she was trying to get high and accidentally also got high on PCP-not confirmed (it's a long story involving potentially laced weed, whose moral is that one should not trust a Juggalo). But my favorite bit of it goes that at some point she somehow realized she was lost, in the middle of the night, alone, in a forest. The last place she remembered being was the shoreline of Santa Cruz. She decided that Lady GaGa would save her, so she whipped out her ipod and trekked on. By the time she'd made it home, revelation had hit, and she proceeded to email Lady GaGa (some 20-30 pages) of what the album had come to mean. ...It was a hilarious if bizarrely well thought out theory. It is tempting to demand a repeat experience with this album in place of it, but I'm certain there are plenty of these stories around XD

And, long comment is officially long enough.