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April 28th, 2009
09:28 pm
Very excited, found the website where Harry Hill got his knitted character
http://www.cloth-ears.co.uk/
Everything on it is marvellous! I wish I had some money...
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April 11th, 2009
07:43 pm - Red Dwarf Part 2
Well I have spent today watching Red Dwarf VII & VIII and to be fair they weren't as bad as I remember. Not good but better than I expected. So now I'm fairly excited about watching the new ones, I wonder how the hell they are going to explain the end of series VIII?
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11:22 am - Red Dwarf
Right. In order to watch the new Red Dwarf's on Dave this weekend (I taped it twice yesterday just in case) I had to bite the bulllet and watch series VII & VIII. From series I-VI I was the biggest Red Dwarf fan. I was in the fan club, I wrote fan fic, I had the t-shirt. Then Rob Grant left and it was just Doug Naylor writing and I realised that Rob Grant was funny and Doug Naylor wasn't, coupled with his obsession with the horror that is Kochanski. Given all of this I had to give up Red Dwarf round the middle of series VII and mourn. As far as I was concerned the series finished at the end of series VI and I would leave it at that.
But then Dave started to tempt me in with it's new episodes. It looked exciting and Red Dwarf-y. I couldn't resist and realised that I may need to fill the gap between VI and IX by watching the shit episodes.
So here I am, Saturday morning with episode 1 of series VII. Not too bad so far but I remember it gets much worse, mostly when that bloody awful woman turns up.
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February 23rd, 2009
10:24 am - Pah!
So peeved, phoned up Belstead House that is running the canal art course I'm going to in April and there are only 3 of us going - they won't run it without 8. Arse! I was really looking forward to that. If anyone wants to go, knows someone who might want to go, or someone who might know someone who might want to go let me know.
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December 26th, 2008
10:36 pm
We have the most brilliantly named margarine. It takes the "I can't believe it's not butter route" and is...
"What, no butter?"
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November 12th, 2008
11:39 pm
A brief drift by to say I have videos of my cats which I regard as cute.
That is all.
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October 25th, 2008
11:12 pm
Well it's been an exciting few days. This evening Christmas came very early as my parents let me have my present - it was mostly because my scanner has finally completely died. So I have a lovely, shiny printer/scanner/copier and I have been very (over) excited scanning/printing/copying. It works a treat.
Thursday I went down to London to meet up with friends and see the Mighty Boosh at Brixton. It was marvellous and so funny, I must watch all the series again.
Friday I had a great day tootling about the South Bank and Covent Garden and having a chat and then sadly today I had to come back. Work tomorrow and a presentation I'm dreading on Monday and then I get to escape and have fun with friends up for half term, woo hoo!
Just finished reading Charlie Brooker's "Screen Burn" - I was glad to see him on "8 out of 10 cats" on Thursday and looking forward to "Dead Set" that he's written, starting on Monday I think.
Wonder if I can get to the flicks to see "Saw V" this week, probably not as I'm going to singalonga "Mamma Mia" Friday.
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October 18th, 2008
09:22 am
I licked the lid of life and cut me lip.
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August 21st, 2008
11:10 pm
Arrrr Jim lad! Just got back from watching "Treasure Island", much eye rolling and piratical nonsense, marvellous.
Work is knackering, I shall be glad when it isn't August any more. We just don't have enough computers, or space, or staff come to that.
Saw the cutest little baby pug today - I could have looked at him forever.
I'm cracking on apace with Laura P's wedding sampler, very pretty if I do say so myself. I've got this one to do after that.
I have watched much "Scrapheap Challenge", gawd bless More4. It must get to the point where they've repeated them all but not yet.
Been to many a quiz, won one on Monday (won't mention the ones we failed to win Sunday and Tuesday).
Read the new Chuck Palahniuk, "Snuff". It was a good read but not my favourite. I'm intrigued to see the film they've made of "Choke". The new Jeanette Winterson "The Stone Gods" is excellent, oddly reminds my of one of my fav authors Philip K Dick.
Right, bed.
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August 16th, 2008
June 26th, 2008
09:54 pm
You Are a Fork
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You are truthful, direct, and straight forward.
People find your honesty to be a bit piercing at times.
You are driven and wildly ambitious.
You know what you want, and you take the most direct path to getting it.
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June 13th, 2008
May 23rd, 2008
10:20 pm
I love my Wii! I hadn't got it going because I felt that knackered and in a rush after work wasn't a good plan. But this afternoon I was off so got it going. It is great fun. I made myself a Mii (I was chuffed to find I can give it glasses like my new ones), Mum made herself one and we both created Dad's one - I feel I will be making more in the next few weeks.
Had a go with Bust-a-move, it hasn't really changed since I was feeding 10ps into it at uni - it even has the same music - but it has a lot more multiplayer possibilities, up to 8 people in fact. The I moved on to Wii Play which has some excellent little games - I like the one where you appear to ride a knitted cow over scarecrows, I feel I will be going back to those ones a lot. Also started off the Big Brain Academy. I was hearten to see it has different games to the DS version so I won't get bored.
Finally I unpacked my Wii Fit (Ta ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) milkjester). I really enjoyed it and can see myself doing it every day. I'm shite at the balance games, apart from the ski jump - in the football one I manage to head everything you aren't supposed to and not a single football.
So really I need never leave the house again for entertainment.
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May 21st, 2008
09:05 pm
I have had the best weekend, well, ever really. I can't think of a better one.
Saturday I had the Electric Picture Palace for me 30th. Went out for lunch and then trotted along to the flicks, loads of me friends came and plied me with gifts - they had a row of their own. We had me favourite Buster Keaton short "The Boat" and then the best film ever made "Kind Hearts & Coronets". We had the organ in the interval, plus happy birthday which I was rather chuffed with. I think everyone enjoyed themselves, I certainly did!
Me parents went home with the gifts, including a surprisingly large stone chinaman and 15 of us pushed off to my favourite restaurant in town The Blue Lighthouse. Had an excellent meal with scary amounts of cheese, I like a bit of cheese, and a very pleasant chat. Went to the Nelson afterwards, fluffed up some dogs and spent the rest of the evening there.
Sunday I got up and opened me pressies, people had surpassed themselves, I have so many things to play with, And I have my Wii! I haven't fitted it yet because I have concluded that rushed or tired are not the best conditions for sorting out electronics.
Then we met up with friends and spent the best part of the day down the pier, shoving tuppences and losing at airhockey. They collected me enough tokens for me to cash them in for a stuffed, grinning whale in a sailor hat. In the evening we had a chinese & went to a quiz at Woodbridge Town Football Club and won! It was all marvellous.
Monday I drove down to London with young milkjester and went to see Paul Merton's Impro Chums at Croydon, then Tuesday I came back on the train and unsurprisingly was knackered! Oh, but it was great.
I hope alitheapipkin had a good time on Monday.
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May 16th, 2008
10:24 pm
Well life is all very pleasant at the moment. I'm not at work again until Wednesday, which is superb.
I had an excellent night Thursday at WI. I got given a most beautiful birthday posy (now in a pot of water), bored the other members witless with the resolutions (I'm off to the AGM in Liverpool in June) and then won a £100 bursary to spend on a course. I'm thinking of going to Denman to do something sewing-y.
Today was the country market and I had me hair re-blackened and then bogged off to the Picture Palace to see "The Lady Vanishes".
Tomorrow I've got the Picture Palace in the afternoon for a do for me birthday and we're showing my favourite film of all time "Kind Hearts and Coronets", meal in the evening and then my birthday, and most importantly my birthday Wii, on Sunday.
It's all rather marvellous
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May 4th, 2008
10:06 pm
Well I have had a fine weekend. You can't believe how exciting it is to have 2 days off if you don't usually have 2 days off, admittedly they weren't the conventional 2 but that's by the by.
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May 1st, 2008
09:35 pm
Bugger, rail replacement bus on the way back from milkjester's on Saturday, I do hate rail replacement buses.
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April 27th, 2008
11:16 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again- I can't believe where this year is going - it's nearly May!
Life pootles on very pleasantly. Fairly busy at work, the dreaded personal develoment review time has seen me produce a document in a font only mice can read. I am mainly working 7 days a week between being in the library, training other staff, Bookstart things, doing stuff to the website and visiting toddler groups for Sure Start so I'm very glad I'm taking some nice annual leave in May, not a big chunk, just some odds and sods.
Been to many quizzes, won a couple, a few seconds and a few, er less impressive. Still seething from friday when we arrived at a quiz to be told they hadn't got us booked in and seemed to think it was out fault that they had had a change off committee. Seeing as the change seems to have made their head bloke one of the arsiest men I have met in many a long week, good luck to them.
I've successfully bored young milkjesterwith my search for car related gubbins (yes it's that time of year) insurance, road tax MOT etc, all of which, as ever, come at exactly the same time of year. I've sorted that with renewing me tax for 6 months. And in case anyone was sitting on the edge of their seat wondering who I've gone with for insurance it is.... the Halifax.
Last night I failed to get to young morris1000's play as I was already going to see "Potted Potter" - all 7 Harry Potter books in an hour. It was bloody hilarious and if it comes near you I recommend it. Bucking the trend of the last few months I actually managed to read the reading group book, "Toast" by Nigel Slater, before the actual group! I was an excellent book, I think possibly the best memoir type book I have ever read. Also read "The Mysterious Affair of Style" by Gilbert Adair, which seems to have some high falutin ideas about what it is s'posed to achieve but ends up, like his last one, before just a weak Agatha Christie and "Deja Dead" by Kathy Reichs. I started the Reichs because I enjoyed watching "Bones" so much. The two bear very little resemblance to each other but are both good.
I was off sick for a while and ended up obsessively watching "Bones" & "Torchwood" and I'm now pining for both, not helped by the fact that I know "Bones" 3 is on Sky - just beyond me reach.
Right, bedtime.
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March 22nd, 2008
10:13 pm - Easter eh
I like Easter, the library is closed, mostly, but unlike Christmas there aren't set Eastery things to do so the world is your lobster.
Having said that I had to go to work today. We were lacking in Internet today, a planned break in service while they spend the 4 day break fixing stuff in Ipswich, and it's Easter Saturday, during the freezing-ist Easter ever, so I thought it would be quiet and had amassed manual tasks what needed doing. I was wrong, it was very busy. But pleasant, with much opportunity for weather discussion simply because the weather altered every 3 seconds, lots of hail, snow and rain but sadly no rain of frogs, I was expecting it.
Tonight I went to see "Genevieve" for the umpteenth time at the Picture Palace, you can't beat "Genevieve".
Yesterday I mostly spent time sewing a Percy the Park Keeper sampler for my friends baby. Tomorrow I'll do the backstitch on it and then it just needs a trip to the framers, the marvellously named Woodware Workshop.
Why does the Autotrader add use the Flumps music?
So tomorrow the plan is sewing and possibly a quiz, or more sewing.
Oh and they've announced part of the line-up for Latitude and it's looking pretty damn good.
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March 4th, 2008
01:22 pm - I haven't updated this thing in a dog's age...
The trouble is if I come online I crawl off 6 hours later in the small hours wondering where my life goes so I have been avoiding the PC as much as possible. Which, it turns out, is nigh on impossible. You just think you have gained yourself a non-PC day when you need to look up an address, the origins of the border collie, a pressing email or a work related doings.
So cunningly today I'm updating in the warm in my lunch hour, blimey it's parky outside.
The next question, of course, is have I anything to actually put on here?
Here's something for young milkjester: metal fatigue!!??
I had a splendid holiday week before last, a couple of mates came to visit for a few days and then I bummed a lift from them down southwards to get a train to Oxford and lumber myself upon friends there. All week I generally trotted about, looked at things, went in shops, had great meals out and had a fine old time of it.
Sadly I then had to come back to work, bah! I have just put up a rather marvellous display of work that the local primary school did based on a book by an author who is coming to see them here Thursday, what with it being World Book Day and all. Luckily we are getting him as I refused to have any of those freakish costume things in the library - Elmer the elephant and Blue kangaroo are doing the rounds. I find Blue kangaroo especially scary as in the book it is a toy, only about a foot tall at most, whereas the costume is 6 foot at least. So I shall be in early Thursday shifting furnishings to accommodate kiddies.
I've read books, er "Then we came to the end" by Joshua Ferris was rather good, as was "Model Behaviour" by Jay McInerney. Read "I, Coriander" by Sally Gardner for the book club which was a nice easy read and many marvellous graphic novels whose names escape me.
I think Dawn Porter is starting to annoy me on BBC3.
Ooh and "There will be blood" is a brilliant film. I thought from the start I was going to be bored shitless but no, it was amazing. I've bought the book it was based on now, "Oil" by Upton Sinclair, but I think it was very loosely based.
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