Almost dinner time. I'm 'aving hoops.

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Rob Styles needs a bloody slap. That's all I have to say.

So Felicity Kendal will be in the next series of Who - hurrah ! And so will Tim McInnery - hurrah !

More Ood - we knew that but it makes me want to buy an 12" one even more now (insert suitable double entendre here). Agatha Christie played by Fenella Woolgar who looks like this if you were wondering:



and Catherine Tate looking very SJS and damned sexy to boot !



Woo and yay. Hoping to have a million billion pics to post on Sunday from our Big Day Out. Me and David are on the Raz and headed for the Doctor Who Exhibition in Blackpool. Good times as JLC would say.

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Caught the first half of Rick Stein's new series about the Med before I crashed last night. Corsica seems a lot like Sicily - not that I've been to either. It did however look charming and all the old buildings give the impression that continental Europe is steeped in tradition and history whereas we're steeped in Barratt homes and big Macs. I will post something cheery any day now.



PS - I got photbucket working !

Just a brief one today as I spent too much time winning the Premiership the FA Cup and the Champions League last night to watch any telly or stuff to review. You will notice I've changed to an advertising account so I can easily post pics. Here is such a pic 

I'm not best keen on Tuesdays as a rule. As dire as Mondays can be at least they have the sparkle of a new week once the sleep has been swept from the eyes. Wednesday are of course the midway point and have their own little pleasure and Thursdays ? Well Thursday is practically Friday. Tuesdays generally are a bit ropey. Yes the Radio Times comes out but other than that not a lot goes on.

You can tell that from the news pages of the BBC. More foot and mouth. The robbing bastards running the lottery will continue to do so. And Madeleine McCann's parents have announced they are backing a scheme called Code Madeleine to advise staff and parents what to do in the event of your child being abducted. Perhaps point one should read "Wonder in amazement when the rest of the world point out that if you fuck off to a restaurant and leave your small child unattended then that makes it your fault if something bad happens to them.".

Talking of bad people I've been watching Dexter on FX. Yes that esoteric Channel full of mystery - lord I'll be saying I've watched Hallmark next ! (Well only for the House marathon and Jericho. Before it got axed. Before it came back). I watched Dexter because it was deemed to be good and sat through the first episode thoroughly unimpressed. But it's grown on me enormously. The characters are rounded and have good and bad sides - well if your main character is a cold cynical killer then I guess that's a given.

Oh the pic is me according to the Simpsons website.

It's Monday and I forgot to email home my LJ password so I couldn't post all weekend. I was too lazy to drive into work so instead I spent much time playing Football Manager and watching telly. I decided in a fit of madness to put Sky Sports back on so I could watch the Community Shield. Not a bad game and I'm determined to watch far more footie this year - at £20 a month I'd better had really.

I am - I think - that unusual mix of Sci-fi and footie fan. To that end this weekend I sat down and watched the pilots of The Bionic Woman and The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Try saying that when you've had a few). The first was fairly enjoyable and the very sexy Michelle Ryan sounds as American as apple pie to my ears. As someone who has never been a big fan of the denizens of Walford I don't have an overriding memory of her screeching at Frank or Ricky. The show has the added bonus of the very lovely Katee Sackhoff (familiar to Battlestar fans as the shit-storm that is Kara "Starbuck" Thrace) and it's an enjoyable romp. The leaked pilot shows Jaime Sommers with a deaf pissed off sister - and amongst a degree of controversy this character has apparently been pulled before broadcast. Nonetheless it was a well spent 40 mins and I'll certainly hit the SKY+ button when it airs on ITV next year.

Next up was the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Mmmm. Well it's got Summer Glau in it which is good. Yep that's about it really. The plot sees a robot from the future...yes there's only so far you can go with this story - or at least that's what I thought. The effects are singularly unimpressive for a modern show - at times the bad Terminator looked like he'd rolled off the set of Robot Wars. In a shocking twist the trio of Sarah, John and Cameron (the Summer Glau character) travel forward in time to the cost-saving year of 2007. Cue, I'm sure, lots of Star Trek: The Voyage Home style not very shrewd observations about modern life. 

Anyway work to be done. Tonight I will mostly be watching Pushing Daisies.

Yum - I just had sushi for lunch. A mad indulgence but strangely filling. 

Saw the news today (oh boy) and thought how terrible it was that the bridge had collapsed in the states. Then I thought how terrible I was for finding this disturbing but not flinching every time a car bomb goes off in Baghdad. Am I the only one that thinks that way - I know it's wrong. Perhaps it's just being able to relate to Minneapolis easier than Iraq. 

Read on OG that Noel Clarke might be back in S4 of Doctor Who. All sorts of strange concepts are bubbling in my mind. Oh and if you want to avoid spoilers this probably isn't the best blog in the world to read. On the subject of naughtiness I downloaded a copy of the pilot for Bionic Woman last night which I plan to view ce soir. Is that statement admissible in a court of law I wonder ? Anyone seen it yet ? The lass from Eastenders & Jekyll is in it which seems weird but I'll give it a spin. Anyhow lots to do and not that much to say so insert suitable Arnie catchphrase here.

It's Wednesday. 

I'm in work.  

I've a million things to do and instead I've opened a Livejournal account and I'm doing my first post.   

I blame David MacGowan for his fiendishly witty prose style and my desire to emulate that. The pic's my 18 month old daughter Rhiannon. She lives with her mum in Leeds. I don't and that partly explains the rather tetchy mood I'm in. Do I jack in my job and get some rubbish employment closer to there so that I can see her on a regular basis ? It's more complicated by the fact that my boss and a colleague have just bought some flats and a chippy but I'm not tied in so I could just decide to be a tenant for now. I'm also considerably narky that my colleagues girlfriend has just got a purchase ledger job at BAe earning £1100 a year more than me and I'm an office manager !

I also feel like crap but I'm convinced that's because I eat too much processed food and not enough of my 5 a day. I'm far from being an obsessed health nut - in fact I'm a short fatty - but I have been drifting into the arena of the unwell lately and have to hope it's something as minor as bad diet. 

Time to update some stock I guess. Oh and time for tea. We will speak again about these matters and more.