As promised, albeit somewhat delayed as I haven't had a spare moment to post it, a rundown of all the moments that make me smile in The Wrong Trousers! (You'll have to imagine the "crying with laughter" emoji at the end of almost every line.)

( Peak Wallace & Gromit! )

That was a pretty good Christmas!  No illness, no dramas, no disasters, a delicious lunch and not half as hectic as I thought it was gonna be. I even had time to get started on my jigsaw! Yaaaaay ( Read more... )

~ It turns out there *will* be a new cinema operator at Tower Park!  It has previously been a UCI, Empire and Cineworld (I think also an Odeon at one point?) and now it will be a Vue!  I don't know if I'm ever likely to visit the cinema again but it's good to know the option will still be there ( Read more... )

It's hard to sum this year up because it was quite good for the most part, as these things go, but my mental health has taken a huge hit with the desecration of my beloved garden in November - it's not just a single upsetting event but something that will cause ongoing pain from now on. I have to stare at the floor or keep my back to the window so ( Read more... )

~ OMG, the guy and his dog having to outrun a beach hut after the latest landslide in Bournemouth!!  A whole bunch of them just got scattered like Monopoly houses!

~ Assorted bits of banter + Misirlou from the Crowded House gig at the BIC:

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And a few songs (It's Only Natural, Four Seasons In One Day, Better Be Home Soon, and parts of Into ( Read more... )

In the beginning, when there were no paths or pond, before there were vegetable and flower beds, when it was all just grass, the only features of the garden were the trees. Four of them: the young sycamore in the bottom corner, and across the middle a row of apple trees, a pair of small ones and their larger sibling on the other side. All have been ( Read more... )

All my love to the evil one!


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For the first time since July, I have a book review to post!  There was pretty much no time for reading over the summer, so it's taken me quite a while to get through this one. I've returned to my big U2 book pile and plucked out A Grand Madness: Ten Years On The Road With U2 by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff, which was published in 2000 and given to me as a ( Read more... )

Happy birthday glitteringloke! :)

A mixture of notes written before, during and after the series 2 finale (and the behind-the-scenes programme)...

( Spoilers, obviously )