And rejoined the library, slightly quaking in case the realised that I do have another account where I forgot to take some books back when I left for university. In 1991. But it's good to be back, our library has escaped the cuts relatively lightly and they have a great coffee machine ( Read more... )

Reading Esquire magazine in the library over the ecellent Capuccino their machine manages to spit out, man I felt like nothing. *laughs* It's all bars I can't afford to drink in, far flung places I'll never visit and girls I'll never meet. A failed man! These bloody magazines ( Read more... )

Enjoyed watching The Sky at Night tonight, although poor old Patrick Moore speaks none too clearly and his monocle keeps falling out. The show was talking about Orion, lots of stuff to see there. I was looking at Betelgeux a lot last night trying to estimate its magnitude, a little below Procyon at about 0.7 was my guess ( Read more... )

The start of Tudors series 4 - boobs, the terrible Richard Harris impersonations of Jonathan Rhys Miller, the comedy english peasants who all have terrible yorkshire / devon hybrid accents irrespective of location, the unexplained disappareances of characters (whither Sir Francis Eyepatch???), new characters given place in opening credits despite ( Read more... )

If a bar is selling cocktails, it helps if the bar staff know how to make them.

My pal Dan got a decent Harvey Wallbanger out of them, after a lot of adjustment of the Galliano levels, but the attempted gin Fizz tasted like soluble asprin.

Was looking forward to International Space Station passover 15 minutes ago, totally clouded out. As I have been for everything in the sky plugged on the excellent BBC Stargazing live shows this week.

In other news it would appear that the study linking the MMR vacccine to autism has been exposed as a fraud. Good.

Me and sis have had a great few days drinking beer and eating chocolate and watching DVDs. Feel rather bored an empty now she's gone back up north a few hours ago. A local smooth talker tried chatting her up last night and got thoroughly put in his place ( Read more... )

The womenfolk are busy with the chocolates and Coco Before Chanel, so i've left them to it for a while, before I go and hijack them to watch The Descent 2 later on, before I will head for a few drinks later. Alone. Going out with my sister resulted in cracking hangover and unwanted hangers on ( Read more... )

Man, I'm so obsessed by retro stuff, I never get anything new done. At any given time I'm reading 1984 reviews for ZX Spectrum games from the iconic Crash Magazine (when I had a Commodore 64!), or endlessly going through the TV Cream website (the best on the net IMHO) or reading about old music, or films, or sport, or any other pointlessly old ( Read more... )

Was leafing through through the NME at the railway station yesterday (steamy windows were obscuring the pole dancing classes), saw there was the Top 25 Alt Ballads or something, and there was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at number one with "Maps". Good choice, felt Lucius, despite not being over enamoured of Karen O's style (unlike my sister) and nasty bowl ( Read more... )