For the first time since 2012 I couldn't get a Sherlock calendar from amazon.com this year. There was one on the UK site but they won't post to Australia, and it wasn't available on the Australian site. I thought I'd be clever and went back through all my old Sherlock calendars until I found one where  January 1st was a Friday, and 2016 seemed to ( Read more... )

Spent the evening last night working on a jigsaw puzzle - one of the guys at work wished me a safe NYE and I told him the worst danger I was facing was a paper cut. At least I saw in the new  year, with a few more hours afterwards.

Went to the cinema this afternoon and saw a really engrossing movie called The Dry starring Eric Bana as a federal ( Read more... )

I've been rewatching Torchwood over the last few months, one ep a week, and last Friday was the final ep of Children of Earth. I must say it hurt just as much on the second time round. First time I watched it, I binge-watched the entire third season in the space of an afternoon, which left me shellshocked and reeling. This time around, though, I ( Read more... )

I couldn't resist buying these today:


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... when you're in the supermarket and a song you like starts playing on the instore radio, and you start doing a little dance as you push your trolley down the aisle and then someone comes around the corner into the same aisle. I didn't care how awkward it was, today, I just kept dancing and singing along ( Read more... )

My local council gives away plants to ratepayers at a rate of three per year; yesterday was one of the distribution days so off I went to see what they had. As well as my own rates notice I had my sister's, as she didn't want any more plants but said I was welcome to collect extra for myself; and also my son's, as he and Jess had something else on ( Read more... )

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This is why I'm bouncing with excitement:


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I know this news is all over the place tonight, but still I need to mark the passing of Robin Williams, one of the few actors whose name alone was enough to get me to the movies. From the 70s kitsch "Mork and Mindy" which launched his screen career, to "The World According to Garp"; "Hook", "Good Morning Vietnam" and "Dead Poets Society" to name ( Read more... )

Still faffing about with the new tv. Hooked up my dvd player only to find that because it's quite old, and not HD, the picture quality on the large screen tv was pretty bad, which meant a new player was in order. And if I was going to get a new player anyway, decided on a blu-ray rather than just dvd. Then I discovered that none of the shops openly ( Read more... )