Blowing my mind

Listen to this while reading: Thank
you -Led Zeppelin (Chris Cornell cover - because it's almost better than the original)

Tuesday nights in my flat have become an awkward topic of conversation. If anyone is heard making plans for a Tuesday, it's almost as if someone just called your Mum the c-bomb. No one is busy on Tuesday nights. Tuesday is Frozen Planet night.

Every Tuesday at 8:30pm, I find myself staring at the TV with my mouth wide open in awe, or muttering "Oh my god, this show is, literally, blowing my mind". If you've never seen Frozen Planet before, you pretty much haven't lived. You might as well just lock yourself in doors, because you are no use to society.

David Attenborough narrates some of the most amazing footage of remote earth that have ever been captured. It is through this show, that I felt the need to thank not only the show itself, but the means in which the beauty of the natural world is brought into our flat each week.
Mr Attenborough made a comment on tonight's episode, that it was just over 100 years ago that the first person even stepped foot in the centre of Antarctica, let alone filmed it.

Which segues nicely to my explanation of the picture which accompanies this article, a photo of my flatmate's brand new 59" HD television. I have to say, I never saw the reasoning behind a television bigger than myself, I mean really, the programme is still the same no matter how big it is, right? Maybe...unless it's Frozen Planet.

Especially these days, I think the actual comprehension and acknowledgment of just how lucky we are to live in this generation escapes so many, myself included. However tonight, I sat there watching scientists explore ice caves in central Antarctica, and four Inuit men hunt and harvest a 2-metre long Walrus to feed their family for weeks, thinking just how lucky I am to be able to witness this. And, in HD.