This week at work has been predictably hectic. On Monday morning we went into work early for some a Christmas breakfast, courtesy of the boss. The options for such things in Oldbury are quite limited so we had breakfast baguettes from one of the local sandwich emporia which were very nice ( Read more... )

It's not often enough that you get to witness pure genius at work. Apparently, rather like buses, you can wait a while and then two come along almost at once. The first goes by the name of Matt Bellamy whose three-piece band, Muse, have recently released their fourth studio album. You may have heard of them. You may even like them. If you don't, ( Read more... )

I recently purchased, and just watched, the film You I Love. It's a Russian film, with subtitles, which tells a typical 'boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy crashes car into other boy and falls in love with him as well' story. I absolutely loved it. The story is well written and acted and the style reminded me somewhat of a Coen ( Read more... )