Or possibily procrastidom, which sounds like a particularly scary Transformer. Probably turns into something spiky.

I just saw my new favouriteist advert of all time. Honestly, If this doesn’t make you go a bit gooey then you have a swinging brick for a heart (or possibly you are just less tired and emotional than I currently apper to be!).

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Happy Talk like a Pirate Day - a quality holiday if ever there was one :)

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BTW it is true that a pirate without treasure is like a monkey without a spatula. Everyone knows that...

It may just be that I am a child at heart, but this is probably the funniest thing I've seen all day. Enjoy...

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Guess which genius managed to lock herself out this evening, with no money, back cards, phone (or indeed anything else that would have made communication and/or travel in the least bit easy)? Then had to hotfoot it across town on a quest to find the emergency keys (all the while keeping everything crossed that the keeper of the keys was in) dodging ( Read more... )

I went to see A Single Man tonight which I really enjoyed, though for some reason I thought it was going to be a lot sadder than it actually was. Having said that though, it was definitely affecting - in fact, I suspect it may cause delayed reaction sadness so I'm currently watching trash TV to cheer myself up! Colin Firth was fantastic (as ever), ( Read more... )

Living in my own insular world I have no idea whether the rest of the world shares a lot of the UK's popular culture. A case in point being Derren Brown, currently dominating UK forums and airwaves as he apparently successfully predicted last week's lottery numbers then gave an entertaining (if typically tricksy) explanation of how he did it on ( Read more... )

The complete non-bluffer's guide to Harry Potter courtesy of The Guardian.

"Right, so there's this orphan, Harry, who's played by the kid who bared all onstage in Equus*, and Robbie Coltrane tells him he's a wizard and Ralph Fiennes is trying to kill him..."

Full Potter guide here.

It's funny, 'cos it's true!

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Yet more evidence I cannot write to a deadline. I signed up for a prompt challenge comm and the deadline is 31st Jan (I'm planning on doing one of those '5 times' jobbies). I thus far have 4 of the times squirreled away on various scraps of paper, but am currently stumped on number 5. I've been stumped on number 5 since about 2 weeks after signing ( Read more... )

... well maybe more appropriately the perils of fandom.

I went to the preview of Dean Spanley today. A slow moving (I say slow moving, I possibly mean glacially moving) shaggy dog story that turned out to be an absolutely charming and gorgeous little film. So far, so sleepy, cheery Christmas fayre - where's the problem? The problem comes when one ( Read more... )

Stuck for a gift for that special someone? Fed up of buying socks and bath salts? Then why not check out Adopt a word.

You can 'adopt' a word from the Collins English Dictionary for a year and, if that wasn't brilliant enough, its all for a good cause as it helps children who have language and speech problemsFor the person who has everything, you ( Read more... )