…or something along those lines, anyway.  Not that it’s the sort of mantra one would associate with this author in general, of course (rare are the days when I can, hand on heart, claim that all, if any, of the aural arse-gravy excreted from my mouth is in any way better than the silence it interrupted, but we’ll let that slide for the now), but it ( Read more... )

So, it's that time of year again. A (sadly Ireland-less) Eurovision Song Contest this Saturday - 8pm, my place, as usual (Abnib Events 'n' all that, if you're that way inclined ( Read more... )

BBC Breakfast is currently reporting on fears that the British bumble bee could be extinct within the next ten years. A little odd, I couldn't help thinking, that they consider this to be important news for today given that the corporation's own website reported on the same in FebruaryEverywhere you look these days, it seems to be all about the ( Read more... )

If I could be bothered to go back and check up on the exact statistics then I could be a little more precise in this matter, but I can’t so we’ll just have to settle for the more general statement that follows instantly: this journal seems, to date, to have been a relatively cuss-lite zone. Something of a surprise to many people to whom I’ve ( Read more... )

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Hardly the sort of thing about which one should raise a chuckle, I know, but sometimes events conspire to make a horrible irony.

And so it is that we find this week's copy of the Aberystwyth edition of the Cambrian News featuring "Woman plunges 50 feet" as its main front-page headline.  This, as you may be aware, is the story of a student at ( Read more... )

Now, before you read any further, I'd like you to do something (it's my 'blog - I make the rules).  Reach down and put a hand on the ground (those of you above ground level will need to trundle down the requisite flight(s) of stairs in order to do this properly.  It's okay - I'll wait till you get back).

You'll probably have noticed, if you were ( Read more... )

The Hits appears to be having a "Cheesy Pop Day", consisting, as you'd expect, of all those ludicrously poppy choons nobody likes to admit to liking, regardless of how fabulous they may actually be. An hour after I switched on, I can't help but wish, if only for the sake of my macho image, that they'd play one single solitary song that I don't own ( Read more... )

(I was going to use the subtitle "This Time, It's Personnel", but then I realised that I'm almost but not quite that corny ( Read more... )

So, after a couple of months of speculation within the pages of the nation's gutter press, word has finally come that they've got something right (this thing really shouldn't be allowed - it'll only encourage them) and that Kylie Minogue will indeed be appearing in this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, Voyage of the Damned.

As the article at BBC ( Read more... )