Moe Better Blues

To try to get over the pain of knowing there will be no more Harry Potter (catches breath in shock, bites knuckles to keep the scream inside), I went to see one of my favourite comedians do stand-up on Thursday night at the comedy club that sits, rather handily, just over the road from my [...]

Happiness Is… Acquiring A Puss

I’ve been in the depths of despair since finishing the very last Harry Potter book.
I’ve been so depressed, in fact, that the only thing I can think of doing to cheer myself up is to get a cat.
So I will.
Ah. That’s better!
(Oh, alright, I haven’t got it yet, but watch this space.)

It’s Over!

Finished the new Potter book in eight hours, only 40 minutes behind my best mate (we would’ve finished together if only I hadn’t made a sandwich at one point – darn my hunger pangs!).
Now I can’t say a word without spoiling it. Gah! But it’s a bit good. And I cried quiiiite a bit. I’m [...]

All Hallow’s Eve

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is released in less than 2 1/2 hours. I was going to nip out and buy it tomorrow but, hell, I can’t wait, so I’m heading out to Waterstone’s in Richmond at midnight to buy it. I’m not queuing for hours so that really, honestly, doesn’t make me sad. [...]

Listing A Bit

I’m rather woozy on pain meds right now and felt like composing a list. Don’t expect it to make sense because, as I said, “woozy”.
Here goes…
All that is bad in my life right now (in no particular order):
1) My poorly back.2) I have so much work to do I’m almost panicking.3) My washing machine has [...]

Adventures In 3D

For anyone who’s interested, here’s an update on my poorly back (and I should mention here that I’ve been quite humbled at how many people have wished me well, both on this blog, on MySpace and on Facebook, not to mention emailing me directly, so thank you all!): the injection worked a little. Just a [...]

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Just to add to my last entry:
As I said, I now live in the same street I lived in when I was at university back at the start of the ’90s.
I seemed to spend a startling amount of time in those days writing essays about how 1956’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was actually [...]

The Secret Garden

Back in 1992, when I was at university, there was an innocuous door in an anonymous wall on the road outside my campus.
I had a sneaking suspicion that, behind it, all was not what it seemed.
Occasional glimpses of what looked like a tomb could be spied over the top of the wall, and [...]

PROOF THAT SOME PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE PARENTS

The Evidence:
1) One railway bridge.2) Two little boys.3) One too-dumb-to-live mother.4) One large kite being flown off the bridge by aforementioned little boys.
Possible Sequence Of Events That Everybody Except The Too-Dumb-To-Live Mother Could Plainly See Happening:
1) The kite could fall on the tracks and the kids wouldn’t be able to get it back.2) The [...]

lolcats: The Best Medicine

I just laughed so much at these I think I tore something:

The final one’s my fave. God, did I laugh!
I think lolcat pics should be prescribed by doctors to alleviate pain (because heaven knows, the pills I’m on aren’t bloody working!). They’re just the best… things… evah!

There. Is. No. Spoon.

Alan Johnston was released! Yaaaaay!
I think we’re all a bit happy now.
Okay, so: I went into hospital yesterday. It was surprisingly untraumatic – I even enjoyed a lot of it, which was about as unexpected as, uh, Alan Johnston being released today, I guess. I didn’t sleep a wink the night before (apart from [...]

Ouch…

Went to see the surgeon today to discuss my poorly back – and he says that apparently I can’t have surgery because it’s too risky and could make things worse.
So, in lieu of surgery, I’m going under general anaesthetic tomorrow morning and they’re sticking a whopping big needle in my spine to try to reduce [...]

The Idiots Are Back

This was Piccadilly Circus at 6.15pm on Friday night:

Deserted. Looks like something out of 28 Days Later, doesn’t it?
This is the view down the Haymarket:

Tiger Tiger, the bar the car bomb was placed in front of, is just behind the lamp post. I really like Tiger Tiger. I love the Haymarket. I can’t believe anybody [...]