Reading, Writing and Racing

“Teo Torriate konomama iko Aisuruhito yo Shizukana yoi ni Hikario tomoshi Itoshiki oshieo idaki” Queen, “Teo Torriate”, 1976 (from “A Day At The Races”) April 2010. We shall never see it again, consigned as it has been, to history. So, dear and faithful reader, I know that the question burning on your lips is, “How [...]

Lies And Damn Lies And Who Fans

“I didn’t escape, sir. The angel killed me too. Snapped my neck, sir. Wasn’t as painless as I expected but was pretty quick, so, that was something.” Angel Bob, Doctor Who, 24th April 2010 Do you find yourself wishing that the weekend would be longer? Me too. Happily, next week’s will be. For now though [...]

Writing: The Wrongs

“Television, new religion, let everyone sing Hallelujah, Politicians, don’t want to listen, They only wanna make money out of you.” Hard-Fi, “Television”, 2007 There are many things in life that seem to be quite straightforward and thoroughly achievable when you give it a cursory glance. Equally, when you find yourself in a situation when these [...]

Go Fourth

“Keep buggering on” Winston Churchill (in Doctor Who), “Victory of the Daleks”, 17th April 2010 Well, I think I enjoyed Victory Of The Daleks last night. I even enjoyed The Prisoner later on ITV, although I’m not sure that I could use the word “enjoy” to describe Britain’s Got Talent in between the two. By [...]

Anticipation Of The Daleks

Doctor: “The Daleks have failed! Why don’t you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the Universe of your filth, why don’t you just die?! Dalek: “You would make a good Dalek.” Doctor Who, Dalek, 2005 So we’re a little over half way through April and I am a little over a quarter [...]

Minor Ligament Damage

Jules: “When you act like you don’t want to talk to me, it just makes me want to talk to you even more.” Grayson: “That may be the world’s most annoying personality trait” Cougar Town, “In To The Great Wide Open”, 2009 Everyone can take a deep breath followed by a sigh of relief – [...]

Weighed In, Weighed In

“You were so smart then in your jacket and coat My softest red scarf was warming your throat Winter was on us at the end of my nose But I never love England more than when covered in snow” Laura Marling, “Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)”, 2009 March 2010 is now nothing but a memory [...]

New(ish) Looking Blog

“I don’t care if Monday’s blue Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too Thursday I don’t care about you It’s Friday, I’m in love” The Cure, “Friday I’m In Love”, 1992 Made some adjustments to the ole blog in the last day or so. You’ll see some extra features over to the right in the sidebar (unless, [...]

Entering The Script Frenzy

“I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous well being And then [...]

Ordinary Life

“I don’t know where I’ll be in ten years time I want to be free I don’t car about the cameras I don’t care about the lights All I wanted was an ordinary life” Amy MacDonald, Ordinary Life, 2010 A couple of days ago I mentioned something intriguing called Script Frenzy, which challenges participants to [...]