This item caught my eye from BBC Norfolk...

An 11-year-old boy defended his mother from an attack with a light sabre outside a Norfolk bakery.
The pair were in a 4x4 car in Swardeston, near Norwich, when a man punched and verbally abused the boy's mother, Norfolk Police said. The attacker, aged in his 30s, fled when the boy then hit him with the toy ( Read more... )

Yay, a book review just to show you that I can write something without mentioning Lego... damn, well, without mentioning ther L-word as the subject matter at least.

Just finished book one of the books packed away for the Christmas break and I enjoyed it. No, it's not going to make you challenge what you see around you, or make you embark upon a ( Read more... )

Whilst reading the BBC website last night I spotted this item:

"Conservative leader David Cameron has strongly defended the Union, pledging to fight the "ugly stain of separatism seeping through the Union flag"."

Then I started thinking about the fact that the Conservative party have often been looking to promote devolved power. Okay, I could have ( Read more... )

For which I make no apology but I have at least warned you.... if you have got this far it's all your own fault....

I was walking down the street and there was the bloke ahead of me shouting "Windsor Castle, Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle" and so I turned to his friend and asked what was up...

He responded, "He's got that turrets syndrome"

Yes, I ( Read more... )

Link to the BBC website here.... go have a look, they're good I tell you :)

Right, looking around the BBC website (as I like to do) I followed a couple of links and came up with the perfect site for those people who are trying to find that certain special gift for someone...

From the Ship of Fools website we have the 12 days of Kitschmas

Here you can find Christ on a Bike, Huggable urns, the St Sebastian Pincushion and then ( Read more... )

Okay, in a break from the normal pattern I'm going to talk about books and stuff.... well, mainly books. This may have been helped by the fact that I'm not sitting in my study... i.e. I've managed to get all my bookcases and books pretty much into the same room... this has been helped by hiding away most of the roleplay stuff in the attic (zombie ( Read more... )

Right, I thought that the Grease Lego was good but I much prefer this.... watch and enjoy!!

So, we've had Lego does Star Wars (on several occasions), Monty Python (ditto) and Eddie Izzard...

but this...

Enjoy!

Whilst looking through the various news e-mails I get through work I spotted this. No, there isn't an option that says "send me stuff about burial grounds", or I don't think there is, certainly I haven't found yet! However I thought that this might be of interest to some readers :)