We watched Aeon Flux the other day. Stunning visuals, disjointed and slightly boring story.

But Paddy was in it!

I can't be arsed...

...cos it's sore!

Ba-dum-tsh!

Hahahahaaaaaaaa!

I think everyone's been done already! So no tags from me. The world is safe.

So true...

Mrs F got me...

Why - Cos she wanted to
Who - Scary freaky psycho girlfriend
When - 1997
Where - Her bed
What - Awful, unfulfilling, mechanical

Why - Cos I wanted to
Who - Ian something
When - 1999
Where - His bed
What - Better, fun, eye-opening

Paddy, Chrisglos, Iheartlasagne, Sapped, idon'tknowwhy, I choose YOU!

Sometimes, when I have a wee, it smells beefy. Sort of like cheap beef flavour crisps. Why is that?

I don't remember them being so sinister...

This is not a real film, it's a part of the latest Photoshop Phriday from Something Awful.com.

Denzil, I'm stuck in the woover! There am a big yurry spider in yur and he am tryin' to kiss me!

Amid blogs about the snow or lack of, a meme desert, bananas that smell of poo and big game hunters of darkest Liverpool/Wirrall/somewhere up there, here's a trivial little snippet.

The radio is on in the office.

A thought occurred.

Five years ago, if someone had said to me "Take That will be back at the top of the charts in a few years" I'd have wet myself laughing.

It truly is a mad world.

EDIT:

Mind you, I'd never have guessed Scooch would regroup, either! It'll be Steps next. Shut up Paddy.

...do cats think that anything you put on the floor or the sofa or the table or a shelf or the coffee table or the dresser is put there specifically for them to sleep on?

My bag has been on the floor in the corner. Huw is now sleeping on it. Max is asleep on my shoe.

Nutters. Megolamaniacal nutters.

...is on Dame Edna on channel 3 and she looks like she's wearing the costume she wore in Galaxy Quest.

She looks good for her age, though.

Do you remember the French and Saunders take on Alien, vair funny.

What is going on with Casualty?!

First, a woman managed to topple over a railing on a bridge, despite the fact that in the previous shot the railing was just below her shoulders. Now, some woman who used to be in Family Affairs (I think) is having premonitions complete with whooshy sound effects.

Awfulness.

...being kicked out of bed to cook bacon sarnies, cleaning the fish tanks out (was overdue, to be fair), cooking more of Mrs F's sweetcorn fritters, and taking the dogs for a walk up the mountain.

They played with the ball in the river:

They chased it through lots of mud:

They got clean in the river again:

And then we went up the mountain, where it was windy:

And found this place. I think it's a lime kiln. Or an entrance to a mine:

Came home, had a cup of tea, watched a shite fillum, watched the rugby (boo hiss boo), ate a lovely cottage pie and blogged all this!

Bye!

...was a bit pants, really.

Not a very exciting episode, after the first 10 minutes. Oh well, we've still got Atlantis. (but no Carson, *sob*)

Blog is speedy like a wolf tonight. Maybe all the being logged out means they were fixing it.

So, we're in Birmingham, I have a beer, I'm chillin' on the sofa in front of Red Eye.

I heard a guy on the radio earlier, Radio 4, comedy show about the evolution of humans. Sounds awful but was actually really funny.

So some anthropologists did a study. They collapsed on a busy high street and it took over five minutes before anybody stopped to help. They did the same thing in a village, and people ran to help straight away. This proves that the smaller the community, the nosier the bastard.

Apparently, our brains are as big as they are to keep track of our social network (there's an apparently fact, room101!. We are bred for gossiping. In the past, communities only ever reached populations of 80 - 120 people. This is because that is the maximum number of people we can keep track of. Even today, there is a similar limit to our close social networks. Amazin'.

Not terribly interesting, but he made it funny. Shame on me.

Anyway, off to concentrate on the fillum now.

Garr.

...a genius!

Woohoo!

...or rather, the man at that blog.

It was not my idea to move the office around, but I did like it and that prompted us to actually do it. So there. I actually feel really guilty that everyone had such a non-productive day, but at least it's done now. And hey, I don't have to sit on my own at a desk in the tea room anymore!D

So, today we had sign language, when we found out the reason we weren't registered for the assessment was that we hadn't paid. Despite the fact that we had receipts. Hmmm...

Our tutor is getting REALLY picky now with correct positioning and stuff now. Before, Paddy and I were like teachers pets, but now I'm getting told off almost as much as the thick 17 year old! I say told off, I mean she feigns confusion and asks you to repeat yourself until you get it absolutely right.

We had a fingerspelling race too. We had to spell everyone's name as fast as we could. Paddy beat me, but he cheated.

Day off work tomorrow cos we have a meeting with a social worker, and then work on Thursday morning, and then off to Birmingham! Table for 10 booked for Saturday night at a lovely indian restaurant. Seeing some friends we haven't seen for ages, can't wait!

Finally, here's something to try to cheer Sir Chris of Gloucestershire up.

Taken from www.somethingawful.com, Photoshop Phriday rocks!

So good to meeeeee, la la, etc.

What a lazy weekend. The only housework I did was cleaning up in the kitchen after various cooking bouts. I made Mrs F’s sweetcorn fritters, a cheesy omelette thing (used cream instead of milk, put tomatoes and cheese on top and finished it off under the grill… it inflated like a soufflé and then collapsed. Like a soufflé.) and some garlicky cheese on toast. Oh, I’m halfway through some truffles. I’ve used a bit more cream in the insidey bit (genache or grenache or something. It means “fool” in French, cos apparently it was made by accident the first time and the chef called the lad who made it a fool. So there you go.) this time, so they should melt in the mouth and not be so…chocolatey. Just need to dip them in pure melted chocolate now to form the shell. Then Paddy will eat them all and be ill from an overdose of chocolate.

Finally, a lovely site for Monday morning:

A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down.

I can particularly recommend the Biscuit of the Week section.

Stolen from louisa-outram.

Just read the "offence" and if you've done it, you owe that fine.

Keep going until you've read each" offence" and added up your total fine.
When you are done, put your fine on your blog and copy and paste the rules.
You don't have to confess your answers, just the amount of your fine.

Smoked Weed - £10
Did Acid - £5
Ever had sex at church - £25
Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you-£40
Had sex with someone you met on Internet - £25
Had sex for money - £100
Vandalised something - £20
Had sex on your parents' bed - £10
Beat up someone - £20
Been jumped - £10
Crossed dressed - £10
Given money to stripper - £25
Been in love with a stripper - £20
Kissed some one who's name you didn't know - £0.10
Hit on someone of the same sex while at work - £15
Ever drive drunk - £20
Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk - £50
Used toys while having sex - £30
Got drunk, passed out and don't remember the night before - £20
Went skinny dipping - £5
Had sex in a pool - £20
Kissed someone of the same sex - £10
Had sex with someone of the same sex - £20
Cheated on your significant other - £10
Masturbated- £10
Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend -£20
Done oral- £5
Got oral- £5
Done/got oral in a car while it was moving - £25
Stole something - £10
Made a dirty home video - £15
Had a threesome - £50
Had sex outdoors - £20
Been in the same room while someone was having sex - £25
Had sex with someone over 10 years older - £20
Had sex with someone under 10 years younger - £25
Been in love with two people or more at the same time - £50
Said you love someone but didn't mean it - £25
Went streaking - £5
Went streaking in broad daylight - £15
Been arrested - £5
Spent time in jail - £15
Peed in the pool - £0.50
Played spin the bottle - £5
Done something you regret - £20
Had sex with your best friend - £20
Had sex with someone you work with at work - £25
Had anal sex - £80
Lied to your significant other - £5
Lied to your significant about the sex being good - £25

Tally it up your fine, and post the total!

With the help of a certain photoshop wizard, I proudly present my baby in all his glory:

CLICKY!

Splunge is for splunge!

We got frustrated playing God Tower, then a friend's hubbie came round to look at my car, which needs a new stalk, apparently. And then we went out.

We had lunch at Carreg Cennen castle (they do the best cawl!) and then took a stroll up the hill and took some photos.

This one was taken in the cave under the castle:

Here's a couple of others:

So there you go. There's a couple more on my Flickr page.

Apparently Paddy does...

Har har!

(Tried to do a flashy animated gif but not sure how to do that yet on my mac, and the only one I could do was about 2mb, so I gave up. Sorry and everything.)

So, all the people who woke up one morning to find that their telly was provided by Mr Branson have woken up to find out that some of it is not provided at all now.

Here are some exerpts from the Virgin Media website.

As you may have heard, we've spent the last few weeks trying to make sure that all of Sky's channels remain on Virgin Media. But Sky asked us to pay such an unrealistically high price that keeping them would mean asking you to pay the kind of increase that is simply unfair. We refuse to stand by and see our customers get ripped off.

At Virgin Media we stand up for our customers, making sure you get a better deal and giving you more.

There is a link to a sort of forum where people can post their views on the matter, and it's a pretty mixed bag. I didn't read far, because there are over 800 pages already!

Some people are annoyed that they are losing channels they have paid for, others are pleased that someone is standing up to Sky.

One person cheered Virgin on, saying it was about time somebody challenged Sky's monopoly. I hve a bit of a problem with that. Firstly, Virgin now have a monopoly on cable television, and secondly, Sky make Sky One etc al, so it's up to them if they want to share it with (or rather sell it to) competitors. If they don't want to pay, that's that.

Personally, I would be livid if I lost channels that show programmes I like to watch. Yes, Sky One is full of pants, but they also show Stargate and a load of other American stuff I love. New dramas, like the Lost Room, which was great viewing. I have always rated cable over satellite, and were we still living in Birmingham, we would not be Sky customers. How glad am I that we don't have cable up here on the mountain!

One last thing. Apparently, Virgin renamed "Sky News" to "Sky Snooze" in the channel guide! Can anyone confirm that?

I'm off to the aftershow party (bed).

Night!

Well. that's that for another year! *phew*

Maybe I can have my boyfriend back now!

Well done to everyone who won a real award, especially Jizzzmeister J and Lyndz who stole the show.

And thanks (sort of!) to all who voted for me as laziest blogger, despite my best efforts to sabotage myself by blogging like a crazy blogger over the last few weeks.

I'm sure Paddy has told everyone about how chuffed he was with the graphics Andy made, they really set things off, very professional. Lots of time and effort well spent.

And as for the man himself, baby, I love you! Look what you've done! I think it's fantastic that the guys at BCUK have recognised this by stumping up with prizes, it's fantastic. Here's to 2008!