I've had an interesting few days.  The first past of the week I felt like I didn't stop to take a breath, and then the second part was much more chilled but I'm still pretty shattered.

Paul's best mate Jeroen was up during the week so we had a couple of nice evenings after work.  Wednesday night we went into town to a gig the King's College London ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaargh!  I've just seen what I missed in last night's snooker!

Why oh why oh why did I not book this week off work, lock myself in the living room and refuse to socialise with anyone?  It sounds like it's been the most exciting and entertaining World Championship for years and I have hardly seen any of it due to being stuck at stupid work or ( Read more... )

I just saw what happened in today's snooker and it made me go all teary :-)

It's not been the best week for England, sport-wise.  I wonder what the odds would have been on England being beaten by Russia in the football, South Africa in the rugby, Lewis Hamilton losing the F1 Championship, and Ronnie O'Sullivan getting beaten in the Grand Prix final?  Sniff ( Read more... )

No more snooker now until October.  One last usage of my favourite icon.

*sniff*

This is a lengthly post about snooker, so feel free to skip it :-)

Oh, it's the last day.  I can't believe after today there's no televised snooker til the Grand Prix in October.

This year's tournament has been an excellent one, and here are a few of my ( best bits )

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This is mostly just a test to see if YouTube embedded links will work...

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A bit of comment though. I can't believe this was 1994, back when miming wasn't supposed to look realistic, and silly hand gestures were all the rage. This is what the Nineties looked like! I loved this song with a passion because the BBC did a video montage for the 1995 World ( Read more... )

What the fuck is going on with the BBC's snooker title sequence? jekesta mentioned this the other day and I thought she was joking - but no! There's a horse! And a bull snorting heat through its nostrils! The mind boggles at the thought of which scary BBC logoman thought up that bit of imagery, and how much they got paid to do so. They're clearly someone ( Read more... )

How can I possibly concentrate on work when I can stream O'Sullivan v Ding live from the BBC website on my computer?