The George Lite Zone

Yesterday saw the official launch of my walking, hiking and rambling blog “Stroll On“. This will be used as a vehicle to document walks in the countryside and observations made en-route.

Originally I was going to call the blog “Ramble On” as a play on the Led Zeppelin track of the same name and as a description of the free flowing nature of its posts. Unfortunately this double pun was denied me as someone had already bagged that name. As a curious footnote (no pun intended) the replacement title I chose, “Stroll On”, I later found was a Yardbirds song. The Yardbirds featured a certain Jimmy Page who reformed the band as the New Yardbirds aided and abetted by a certain Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. After legal wrangling the band was renamed Led Zeppelin and the rest, as they say, is history.

Spooky.

Taking advantage of Calvin’s newly acquired status as a 15 year old, I took him to see Hot Fuzz. A most excellent film, it had the feel of an extended episode of Spaced on steroids. Reading some of the forums around this movie, I see its UK release date, Valentines day, just happens to be Simon Pegg’s birthday. This is also Calvin’s birthday, so it was a fitting film to watch to celebrate the occaision.