Cocknobs, it's been a while since I posted. Much happen, yea. Will sum up in least boring way.

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Last Wednesday: went to Alton Towers (the theme park, ye non-Brits). Was great. Went on all the big, scary rides and was hideously brave. A day Alton Towers is fine, so long as you are willing to SPEND ALL YOUR LIFE SAVINGS IN ORDER TO GET IN OY THE EXPENDITURE CURSE YOU GOD FOR MAKING ME THIS WAY. Also, it is criminal (i.e. I'm going to see if it ( Read more... )

I've just realised (although they've been out for months) that BBC sitcom Maid Marian and her Merry Men is available on DVD. Why do I find this when I have absolutely no money? Life is a fecund whore tempting us with sparkly dangly things that we yearn for but cannae reach ( Read more... )

Anyone else see the programme on ITV last night where Richard Hammond, the short dude from Top Gear and Brainiac attempted to replicate the would-be climactic event of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, and see if a ton of 17th century Spanish gunpowder really could blow a 30-ton concrete-and-pine "House of Lords", king and nobles inclusive? I found it ( Read more... )