Dispatches...
Saturday All clear for cookwitch. Woot! Up to Leeds for sendraks's birthday party: good food, good company and good cocktails, who can ask for anything more? There was even cake!
Sunday Lunch & gossip with madcatwoman, always a pleasure. Back home in time for the repeat of the Dr Who series finale: thought it was a bit shit. cookwitch not surprised as silenttex thought the same.
Monday Spent day at work playing with Excel charts - some times work can be fun! Cancelled planned date with Captain Jack Sparrow in favour of the attractions of home.
Tuesday Series end of CSI: Vegas, hated the last five minutes but then I keep hoping the sanctimonious Ms Sidle will get written out altogether! CSI: Miami next week - good news, I like settling down for a spot of grisly crime with silenttex of a Tuesday evening.
Wednesday Avenue Q - sheer, spectacular, musical comedy genius! A superb quality show, hugely enjoyable. If you're in London and can get hold of tickets (I got our lot from ticketmaster and lastminute), I definitely recommend you catch this show.
Thursday DVD bargain-tastic! 8 Ealing Comedies on DVD for £17.99!! I need to go back on Tuesday to swap the set though as I curently have two The Man In The White Suits and no Passport To Pimlico.
Friday: Day off work, fab lunch with cookwitch and picked up the new Kathy Reichs and the new Jasper Fforde books. I do like it when favourite authors publish books just as I have a long weekend planned (Monday off too), so kind of them.
Quotation
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. - J. K. Galbraith
Word
Synecdoche n A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as in 'hand' for 'sailor'), the whole for a part (as in 'the law' for 'police officer'), the specific for the general (as in 'cutthroat' for 'assassin'), the general for the specific (as in 'thief' for 'pickpocket'), or the material for the thing made from it (as in 'steel' for 'sword').
Death
June Allyson (1917 - 2006) Actress (and one of the stars of a movie that had a lasting effect on my music tastes The Glenn Miller Story) spokeswoman and lobbyist for improved research into urological and gynaecological illnesses in older people; died on July 8th aged 88 of acute respitory failure. CNN obit here
Sunday Lunch & gossip with madcatwoman, always a pleasure. Back home in time for the repeat of the Dr Who series finale: thought it was a bit shit. cookwitch not surprised as silenttex thought the same.
Monday Spent day at work playing with Excel charts - some times work can be fun! Cancelled planned date with Captain Jack Sparrow in favour of the attractions of home.
Tuesday Series end of CSI: Vegas, hated the last five minutes but then I keep hoping the sanctimonious Ms Sidle will get written out altogether! CSI: Miami next week - good news, I like settling down for a spot of grisly crime with silenttex of a Tuesday evening.
Wednesday Avenue Q - sheer, spectacular, musical comedy genius! A superb quality show, hugely enjoyable. If you're in London and can get hold of tickets (I got our lot from ticketmaster and lastminute), I definitely recommend you catch this show.
Thursday DVD bargain-tastic! 8 Ealing Comedies on DVD for £17.99!! I need to go back on Tuesday to swap the set though as I curently have two The Man In The White Suits and no Passport To Pimlico.
Friday: Day off work, fab lunch with cookwitch and picked up the new Kathy Reichs and the new Jasper Fforde books. I do like it when favourite authors publish books just as I have a long weekend planned (Monday off too), so kind of them.
Quotation
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. - J. K. Galbraith
Word
Synecdoche n A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as in 'hand' for 'sailor'), the whole for a part (as in 'the law' for 'police officer'), the specific for the general (as in 'cutthroat' for 'assassin'), the general for the specific (as in 'thief' for 'pickpocket'), or the material for the thing made from it (as in 'steel' for 'sword').
Death
June Allyson (1917 - 2006) Actress (and one of the stars of a movie that had a lasting effect on my music tastes The Glenn Miller Story) spokeswoman and lobbyist for improved research into urological and gynaecological illnesses in older people; died on July 8th aged 88 of acute respitory failure. CNN obit here