Wow. First David Bowie and now Prince. If I were Brett Anderson I would be VERY nervous right about now.

I've just watched episode 7 of Caprica and I must say how much I'm enjoying it. It started a little weakly, but the last three episodes have really drawn me in. I'm wondering whether in the end we will find that the STO were responsible for mass producing the cylons to pursue their ideas of immortality?

So, I've been saving up this year for a Playstation 3.

( Barm natters on about various stuff, with a brief mention of TRU )

Following a request for more pictures from a family member...

Lex on someone's lap
Lex in bed, trying his hardest to eat one of his toys
Mum, clearly in a better mood than Lex
One of those arty over-the-shoulder shots
Mum's first opportunity to be really unkind: writing "666" on Lex's forehead for Hallowe'en
My good self, with my two younger sons ( Read more... )

What's with all the old adverts? Watch this instead, it's far better.

I did try to embed this, but it didn't appear correctly. Ah well.

I find myself up very late at night, waiting for Lex to wake up for some milk. I'm giving Jo a chance to have a good few solid hours' sleep. I have concluded that Lex likes Nick Drake. I have decided this because he tends to stop crying when I put Nick Drake on for him. You can see proof of this. In this video he does very little, but he does it ( Read more... )

Baby was born at 7:38am this morning, weighing 7 pounds and 14 ounces. Jo's water broke at about 5 yesterday and she was in labour through the night. She managed the pain really well until about midnight, then demanded an epidural and got two (the first didn't work). Epidurals hamper the ability to "push", so baby was yanked out of Jo by forceps. ( Read more... )

View from the top of the stone circle field. If you look really closely above the right hand tree near the centre of the picture, you can see the dragon in the next picture.
Here be dragons. Clearly not too fearsome dragons though, as somebody has climbed into its mouth and is doing a headstand.
Neil sleeps in a hanging chair. This was in the ( Read more... )

Hi all ( Read more... )

It's lunch time, and as I always do, I'm reading the Register while I eat my sandwich. I found this article about Scientology, which includes "drills", which is to achieve something or other I'm not really interested in. But one of the drills read as follows ( Read more... )