If I Was The City Of Manchester…

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

… (and please excuse me while I anthropomorphise)… I would be wandering around this afternoon behaving like a smug git.
Not explicitly because I’d just been awarded the prize of being picked as the location of this ’super casino’ nonsense, though I suppose if I was Manchester and not me I’d probably think that was good […]

Overkill

January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

I love this, even though it’s really bad:
An Aberdeen woman who asked for her bank statement was sent those of 75,000 other customers.
BBC News

Miami-Bound

January 28, 2007 | Comments Off

Inexplicably, I’ve been forgetting to mention that we’re going to Florida at the end of February. Not an extensive trip - we’ll only be away a week - but one into which we’re hoping to pack as much activity as possible. Not for us a week of lounging on beaches - oh no, […]

Adoption Again

January 24, 2007 | Comments Off

You know, I can’t remember the last time I got as riled about a news story as I have about this “Catholic Church wants legal right to discriminate” fiasco.  I started out just being angry about the evil Ruth Kelly once again putting her dogma ahead of her responsibilities, but now I’m just angry that […]

South East London BeerFest ‘07

January 23, 2007 | Comments Off

The lovely Alice and the equally fragrant Michael came to us for dinner on Saturday, and as we were in the alcohol section of the supermarket on Saturday morning, David had the very bright idea of getting a load of unusual beers rather than going for the slightly safer wine option. One quick call […]

Oscars? Already?

January 22, 2007 | 2 Comments

Nominations are announced tomorrow.
This will be for a year which represented the lowest point in my cinema-going history. In my entire adult life I haven’t before seen fewer films in a year than I did in 2006. Long before I used to report on them and review them professionally I would be in […]

The Book Group

January 22, 2007 | 5 Comments

I’ve talked about this on and off over the years, but I’m determined that I should finally do something about it.
I really, really need to get some non-work, purely social activity into my regular schedule, because my social skills are in the process of dying on the vine.  So the much-mooted book group is back […]

Some Are More Equal

January 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Ruth Kelly, the Communities Minister, somehow tends to get the tag ‘”Equality minister” attached to her role too, even though she appears to be the very epitome of one who believes in equality only as far as it doesn’t affect her family or conflict with her religious indoctrination.
The Minister, possibly the nearest thing to pure […]

The New, New Avengers

January 18, 2007 | Comments Off

First post on the subject of comics in a while.
A day by day reveal of the line up of the Marvel New Avengers series in the wake of the company’s Civil War series has been running over on Newsarama, and now the line-up is complete. For those not following the details, there are shortly […]

You know the world has gone mad when Gordon Brown is being asked questions about Celebrity Big Brother while on a trade mission to India.

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