Day 29: Bring On The Puns

Anyone who was reading my blog back in April 2006 may remember an epic punning competition I had with my best friend, Biddy, about pigs (scroll down the page and you’ll find it).
I love punning; it brings me joy and I have never been beaten. (Don’t let Biddy tell you different, either.) My greatest [...]

Day 29: ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

Day 27: The Attenborough Years

In answer to a couple of comments on my last entry…
Yes, I saw the Jonathan Ross documentary on Steve Ditko and I loved it, especially the sight of Jonathan and Neil Gaiman giggling like schoolkids outside Ditko’s office at the end. Hilarious! They’re both so famous themselves and, especially in Neil’s case, have a huge [...]

Day 23: Same Old, Same Old

I haven’t been posting much recently, for obvious reasons: I’m stuck in the house and there’s bugger-all going on.
I could write about my work (proofing, fact-checking, reviewing) or my reading (Watchmen rocked my world) or my TV-viewing (I’m not sure I’m going to watch season three of Prison Break, because after finishing season two [...]

Day Fifteen: In Which The Cat Returns (not Mal, alas) And The Prisoners Run

Still no word on my surgery; my doctor is chasing up the appointment like… um… a doctor chasing up an appointment. Go doctor!
In the meantime I’m still stuck indoors. Thankfully I’m not quite stir crazy yet, even after over two weeks. I did manage to escape to the cinema a few days ago using copious [...]

Day Eight: Are They Having A Laugh?

Well, I’m not sure what Charing Cross Hospital are trying to tell me… but rather than sending me an appointment for spinal surgery, today I received an appointment for brain surgery.
Unless they intend to reach my poorly disc by running a scalpel down the inside of my spine from my brain… I think they fucked [...]