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We think we've got hens in the skirting boards
So, apparently, it's cold here. No one's mentioned the snow all week, and certainly there haven't been hours and hours of news coverage of Hampshire's impression of Hoth as though this white stuff coating the ground was an entirely new phenomenon and nothing else was happening in the rest of the world. There haven't been any sneering articles about ( Read more... ) -
Goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I want to talk about one of my favourite shows which ended tonight. I adored that each character was given thought, believable character development and a moment of grace. It was the perfect goodbye to some people I have loved.
But enough about the Gavin and Stacey series finale, let's talk about the Doctor Who series ender ( Read more... ) -
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I seriously fucking hate and despise New Year with a passion I cannot hope to textually render. Nevertheless, 2009 has been shite and I am glad to see the back of it, so there's that ( Read more... ) -
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I have to share this thing of beauty with you:
Leo McKinstry: 'Sorry not to join the liberal wailing: heroin traffickers deserve to die'This is an opinion piece from the Daily Heil about Akhmal Shaikh, who was executed by lethal injection in China this morning for drug smuggling. He was caught in Urumchi with a suitcase containing 4kg of heroin. ( Read more... ) -
Christmas telly fail and other stories...
Heckling the TV. I am heckling the TV, which may be the most pointless activity on the planet. I have just switched over to VIVA TV at *exactly* the same point in The Last Supper as I did last night. To the line of dialogue. And fond as I am of the film, I don't wish to watch any of it again.
I was watching the new version of Day of the Triffids ( Read more... ) -
The Radio Times introduces the worst poetry in the world
Someone on Twitter (Chris Addison, I think) said that this poem by Carol Ann Duffy, our poet laureate, was like Vogon poetry and I thought: "Nah, I quite like her stuff. Can't be that bad ( Read more... ) -
Ha det
Many happy returns of the day, a bit belatedly, to haphazardmethod. I hope you have a wonderful birthday weekend and enjoy your duvet day.
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Hello crapness, my old friend...
I have had today off work, but I just got a bit fed up of the day at around 2pm and went back to bed until it was time for Spooks. I realise that this constitutes unacceptable sloth, but it is the sole advantage of living alone. I was fed up of dealing with conscious thought, and so read a Marian Keyes book.
*Warning: This is going to be about ( Read more... ) -
The Waters of Mars; Edward Woodward
I thought The Waters of Mars was really good. Fantastic, in fact, if you're happy to do some Olympic-level handwaving about science and suchlike. And what's more, good and dark, in the more interesting sense of the word. It wasn't dark for the sake of it and it almost entirely escaped from the "woe is me, I am so emo" vortex. I can't believe they ( Read more... ) -
HELLO! I HAZ A NEW NAME!
It's a second-hand name, so if you're here looking for a previous cromarty, who was maybe a serial killer or similar, well, that's not me. All the names I wanted were owned by someone who hasn't written a dicky bird for five years. Selfish name-squatting buggers. Anyway, this one is a sea area, like my other LJ name. HO, I SEE WOT I DID THAR ( Read more... )