As if having a rather unpleasant cold is not enough, I was walking through the field from work to buy a few assorted fathers day/birthday cards, when two pyschotic birds decided to exhibit some rather disturbing tendencies, such as flying in a circle around me as I walked in ever decreasing circles.  After a while [...]

It’s not often I get to the cinema these days, so yesterday was a real treat for me, offering as it did, the chance to see the new Indy film in an almost empty cinema.  I went in to the film with some fairly low expectations following reports from various friends, but was very pleasantly [...]

That’s a comment on the weather, not my state of mind.  Anyway, the afformentioned heatwave has forced me to move inside this lunchtime, where it is also hot, but not in that ‘my-face-is-melting’ kind of way.
Managed to turn not a lot of money into a session of extreme drunkenness on Saturday, which then alas turned [...]

Now that the dreaded Big Brother is back on our screens, it appears that I will have a new regular blogging time, since it is my yearly task to avoid all contact with the pestilence brought about by Endemol and Channel 4.
One of the great things about the current election fervor is the fact that [...]

Also wanted to mention that last night I finally got around to watching the excellent Hollywoodland, which I heartily recommend to all and sundry.  I’ve been a fan of Affleck since Dazed and Confused, and his early career was chock full of excellent performances.  Then he went into autopilot for a few years, going after [...]