We love Vicious (don't judge, we have eccentric and wide-ranging comedy tastes) and we thought we had it tagged. But suddenly, out of nowhere it decides to a) pass the Bechdel Test and b) remember that they've cast Ramsay Snow as the nice young man next door.

Arsecrackers. Bottom five and then some, but at least the airliner-shooter-downers didn't win. And we did better than Germany, and crivens knows that doesn't happen very often, in anything. If anyone chose to go with my suggested spread bet of 18th, then you have only yourself to blame, you fools.

Bugger. Looks like Europe is busy painting its bedroom walls black, and taking time off to shoot down Malaysian airliners.

This morning, having watched both of the semis, I was thinking that the UK had a good chance in this year's Eurovision. This wasn't demented nationalistic pride (I knew that Bonnie and Engelbert were going to, as they say, go down like a cup of cold sick), but a carefully considered viewpoint, based on the fact that this year, Eurovision is ( Read more... )

Eliza Doolittle (singer) really is spectacularly awful, isn't she?

The smalls are still at an age where they get a bedtime story read to them - usually a chapter of something each night. A couple of nights ago, having finished volume 3 of "All The Wrong Questions", I thought we'd give "The War Of The Worlds" a go - start them young on classic SF ( Read more... )

Our library has a special section for Hot Books - recent bestsellers which you can only take out for one week because they're so popular ( Read more... )

One of the perks of living in That London is the occasional moments when you walk past someone and think "Blimey, that was him/her off the telly!" January has provided in spades ( Read more... )

Tagged by andrewduckerTen Books which have stayed with me - or rather us, so 5 each, shouldn't be too difficult to decide which is which, with some execptions ( Read more... )

Guardian Children's Books section has a list of top ten alternate histories in children's books here

It includes such kidslit classics as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Man in the High Castle, Watchmen and The Difference Engine. I'm suddenly feeling a lot less smug about my Smalls' reading record.