There is an ad that plays regularly when Nick watches his various politics shows on the internet lately. It's for Duracell batteries, and it's had several different versions, each dealing with a different type of technology that's supposed to be life-saving/incredibly important, that wouldn't be as efficient without Duracell batteries. Their latest ( Read more... )

I have a friend by the name of Ardy. Ardy is a sci-fi geek, much the same as me. Earlier this week, Ardy discovered that I had never actually bothered to watch Torchwood, mainly because I was feeling disappointed at the way the new Doctor Who series had not lived up to my childhood expectations and memories. As the new Torchwood series was starting ( Read more... )

Nick does not like and will not allow me to get the DVDs of the TV series Lexx.

I don't even know him any more.

Slightly pissy right now, for several reasons. The most obvious of these reasons is our attempts to tune in our new freeview box ( Read more... )

So, last night's Eurovision was a bit of a disappointment, to be honest. Not because we lost, because four vacuous 20-somethings pretending to be air steward/esses and singing some bland europop number isn't going to win any prizes (and I still think we should have had the guy from the Darkness, if only so that we gould have had a glam rock-off ( Read more... )

If I look out my kitchen window I can just about see the lunar eclipse that's going on right now (the moon is currently very high in the sky, so unless I actually go out into the back yard - and scare off all the cats in our shed-cum-bunkhouse - I'm not going to be able to see much more). According to the BBC News article, it's about to enter ' ( Read more... )

...and to amara_m, I have a question ( Read more... )

The new series of Supernatural starts in about 35 minutes.

I have nothing to do that will last that long.

A man from the Water Board has just been driving up and down the street with a loudspeaker announcing that the water is going to be cut off so that they can effect emergency repairs. I'm betting that these repairs are probably a burst pipe or something after last night's snowfall (which has thankfully melted now) and freezing temperatures ( Read more... )

I spent Friday and Saturday sick and mostly in bed. Nick made me warm Ribena, which I haven't had since I was in single figures ( Read more... )