( Spider-Pig Pie )

I left Cambridge for four days last weekend during the hottest part of the year so far, and now half my plants are dead. ( update on green things if anyone is interested )

Cambridge-based people may be interested to learn of the 1st Cambridge Octoberfest run by CAMRA on the 19th and 20th of October.

I think Cambridge can support more than 3 annual beer festivals myself.

I wish to purchase a wii but I have one little problem doing so that Nintendo have not forseen. I do not have a tv (8 computers for 4 people, but no tv).

Does anyone know how problematic connecting a wii to a computer monitor is, and what I would need to do it? Alternatively, any ideas for finding a cheap tv?

Last Monday I saw my fourth live production of King Lear. Originally planned as part of Bardfest '06 but delayed until this year, it is a high profile production, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Ian McKellan in the title role and Frances Barber as Goneril.* It is disappointing then that I cannot even say it is the best Lear I have seen: I ( Read more... )

And at last the true identity of Lindeman is revealed as... ( spoilers )

So, only a couple of weeks behind people with televisions, I have now seen s2 of Life on Mars after successfully avoiding both parts of my lj flist and a surprisingly large chunk of the newspaper for several days. I glutted myself on the final four episodes back-to-back and I am ready to pour forth with thought ( Read more... )

Via snowking, despotliz and grahamsleight
identify some of my favourite films from 3 imdb tags:

ETA clues: Of the remaining (2,3,5,6,8,9) 2 are adaptations of books, 4 are part of a series of films: there may be crossover of these categories.

1) surprise after end credits, road, child abuse (Priscilla: Queen of the Desert: guessed by jakiri2) mistletoe, monkey, garbage disposal ( ( Read more... )

When I first started thinking about growing vegetables I did wonder whether I would find it unsatisfying because it would take so long to see the results. True, several of my sewing projects have taken months to complete, but somehow I thought that the way a garment comes together is more obvious and at any given stage you can see whether ( Read more... )

Beautiful, Shameless Abuse

If, as I was, you are unaware that A Bit Of Fry And Laurie is now available on DVD, then get thee to Amazon.