Those of you who witnessed my acting skills at panzer_attack's stag weekend will be relieved to hear that I shall not be putting my name forward to be the successor to David Tennant in Doctor Who.

I think I passed Kevin Eldon on the way to work today. It was difficult to tell as he was wearing sunglasses (on a not-particularly-bright autumn's day).

Spotted this headline board for todays London Evening Standard:

"John Leslie Rape Quiz"

Makes a change from sudoku or the crossword I suppose.

We've just had our electricity restored after 12hrs of a power cut, all due to a fire at a substation apparently. Naturally the restoration happened just after we'd got the candles out... Hopefully the rioters/zombies/vampires will have called off their rampage now.

Senior Library Assistant: " The missing books list has gone missing!"

Oh, poo! Not only do I have a Tory MP and a Tory London Assembly constituency member, I also now have Boris "Bloody" Johnson for my Mayor. This continues a great family tradition of being left of centre in areas represented by the Tories. I hope all you non-London people appreciate me "taking one for the team" in cocking up the Tories' chances at ( Read more... )

Well, that's my democratic duty over and done with (at least this time I get to put four crosses on three different ballot forms, woooh!). Plus, it maintains my record of only ever having voted outside of the county I grew up in. In the Official booklet about the London elections that we got sent, there's a double-page spread for each mayoral ( Read more... )

Given the previous example of the 1901 UK Census being laid low by genealogists, you'd have thought that the creators of the online archive of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey (1674-1913) would have anticipated a very high demand for their service. Alas, no: "Due to high demand, the site is currently running slowly and some services may be ( Read more... )

The Ultimate Machine. The perspex makes it look a little like ORAC to me.

HUGS! (via ML)