The is running around naked after his bath. I’m playing him some music to dance to. On the grounds that he likes the KLF remixes of the Doctor Who theme, I played him some Vangelis, and then some Jean Michel Jarre. He’s now running around wrapped in bubble wrap shouting “like a robot!”
A good weekend last weekend – up to Staffs for Oatley minor’s naming, with an overnight stay in Leamington (at the Angel Hotel) en route. Some follow-on notes from conversations: For : the best source for non-pink girl’s clothes (and non-blue boy’s clothes) that we’ve found is Vertbaudet. French, as you might expect from the name. For and , the iPhone/iPod Touch ebook app was Stanza. The iPod Touch and the Sony PRS-505 are comparable in price: £165/£214/£283 for 8Gb/16Gb/32Gb iPod Touch vs. £199 for the PRS-505 (256Mb internal, expandable via SD cards). Battery life on the PRS-505 is excellent… Read More »Conversations interrupted
After the hysteria surrounding the death of the Sloane Royal, I’m very glad that Jackson died in the US, not in the UK. – did guess this one too?
Rubber stamps reading: Answer the question Answer the question I asked this year, not the one I asked last year Irrelevant Waffling Irrelevant and waffling Reproduced without understanding Did you attend my lectures? Did you read any textbooks? Ah well. Only another 150 scripts to wade through.
For those that haven’t met him, the has a bit of a thing for aeroplanes. This really became apparent about a year ago; I read him Sadie the Airmail Pilot every night for at least a month, and he was fascinated by the aircraft flying into Southampton Airport (we’re less than a kilometre south of the perimeter, and probably less than 200m west of the southern approach flight path). Last summer, we met up with my uncle and aunt at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (they had a 1940s weekend) and ended up buying him a selection of planes,… Read More »Neeeeowwwww!
There are TV adverts about TV adverts.
Until the babysitter turned up at 1830, we’d completely forgotten that we’d arranged to go out to a recording of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue at the Mayflower this evening. Now we’re in the post-Humph era, the Beeb has decided to continue the programme with a rota of guest chairs (a la HIGNFY) – ours tonight was Jack Dee. How did it go? Too early to tell, I think. Dee is good, but he isn’t Humph (and his pacing and delivery in the first half – the first of the two episodes being recorded – made it clear that… Read More »ISIHAC: TNG
I did it once, I’ll do it again (but this time as a single re-edited post). I get the feeling I’m going to miss Wogan. In an ideal world, he’d be Twittering his commentary. Lithuania: Quiet start – competent but rather bland ballad Israel: Verse lyrics in Hebrew. Singing flat, alas. Bit too heartfelt – there must be another way. Where’s the cheesy pop? Also, those look like olive oil tins rather than biscuit tins being used for percussion. France: “paint-by-numbers chanson”, says young Master Norton, and he’s not wrong. If I had to, I’d choose something else. says she… Read More »Liveblogging Eurovision
Sitting down with the to watch the episode of Creature Comforts currently on ITV1 (“Safari Park”), and for the first time I know exactly who supplied one of the voices; the rather dandy lion in the opening shot is quite clearly Alexander Thynn, the 7th Marquis of Bath. The fact that he’s surrounded by a group of wifelets lionesses is a nice touch that I feel may be lost on the …