Mar
28
Jealous? Me?
March 28, 2006 | Comments Off
At this very moment, David is in Cardiff, watching an advance screening of the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who. I’m awaiting his review with interest, obviously, but now, come the 15th of April, I’m going to have to ban him from the room when I watch it myself, just so […]
Mar
25
Competition For World Of Warcraft
March 25, 2006 | Comments Off
I’ve remarked before how World Of Warcraft is the only computer game since probably Defender that’s well and truly hooked me. I’m almost salivating at the thought of The Burning Crusade expansion coming later this year. But David has been salivating over a more imminent arrival - the fourth volume of Bethseda’s The […]
Mar
23
Continuing Our Recent Scandinavian Theme….
March 23, 2006 | Comments Off
I’m writing this on a plane. It’s a Scandinavian Airlines System plane (SAS being the joint carrier of Sweden, Denmark and Norway in case you wondered), and I’m on it flying from Amsterdam to Stockholm because I got away from the office late and missed the KLM flight I was supposed to be taking. […]
Mar
22
The Unsung Heroine of Swedish EuroSong….
March 22, 2006 | Comments Off
…. at least as far as we’re concerned, is the fabulous Linda Bengtzing. Last year’s inexplicable Swedish failure to select Alla Flickor (All The Girls) as their entry robbed them of an obvious winner and us of an English language version of a truly outstanding pop song (which is always produced if the winner […]
Mar
21
In Sweden Meanwhile….
March 21, 2006 | Comments Off
(See - told you it would all hang together). In Sweden they know how to do it properly. Melodifestivalen is the event, and it’s a true highlight. Twenty-odd songs compete in an equivalent of the main contest itself for the honour of representing Sweden. And there, it *is* an honour. […]
Mar
21
And On The Subject Of Sweden….
March 21, 2006 | Comments Off
….I’m going to talk about the British system for choosing our Eurovision Song Contest entry. No - there is a logic here, but you’ll have to wait a couple of postings to see how it all hangs together. Before we went away, we caught the tail end (the voting bit) of Making Your […]
Mar
19
Coming In From The Cold
March 19, 2006 | Comments Off
Brrrrr. Even I, who as people will know me will tell you can happily walk around in a t-shirt in sub-zero temperatures, has had cause to feel a bit chilly in the last week. It occurs to me that I forgot to mention that the holiday was five days at the Icehotel in […]
Mar
12
On Domestic Upset
March 12, 2006 | Comments Off
Not in a serious way that is, but in the ‘we’ve decided at no notice to have our bathroom complely ripped out and replaced in the next week. The timing is dictated by the fact that we’re going to be away for the next week and so it’s the perfect time for there to […]
Mar
6
No Smoking
March 6, 2006 | Comments Off
Not me, I hasten to add. Or rather, yes me in the sense that I remain a non-smoker, but specifically in relation to David, who succumbed once again to the demon weed last year and has been contemplating giving up again for months.
He’s decided to do it in a very serious way, using […]
Mar
5
Fortune Cookie
March 5, 2006 | Comments Off
There’s a new Chinese take-away opened near us and we sampled their very good fare for the first time tonight. As part of their package they provided fortune cookies, and I loved my ‘fortune’ - it may be that postmodernism has reached the world of the fortune cookie:
“Whoever dies with the most toys is, […]