Getting Excited Now

Have you seen this! There is a Poster, a cut out and keep sticker book and 6, yes 6 (I counted them all) free stickers. It's making me giddy with anticipation I'm not sure that I can wait til Saturday for Doctor Who.

Of course there are some nay sayers who contend that the new style cybermen are not scary! Pah what do they know?

As I said, can't wait.

Medical Yorkshire

Very useful document if you have to enquire after the health of colleagues or family who are from Yorkshire or have resided in that magnificent county for several years.

Glossary of Yorkshire Medical Terms

"Major's Folly"

"Major's Folly"
Originally uploaded by Jane Goth.

Nearish to where I live is a 4 lane motorway. It runs between Peterborough and about Huntingdon.

It's great, really it's great, it got rid of the Norman Cross roundabout which was a major holdup on the A1.

But it is also very pointless, the traffic levels don't justify it and at each end of the 4 lane stretch the road narrows back down to 2 lanes and stays that way until Yorkshire going north or until you hit the M25 going south.

So why was it built?

Well it was commissioned when John Major was Prime Minister and it runs through part of what was his constituency.

In post Napoleonic war times laying cobble roads was the job creation scheme.

Jeremy Hardy

Si and I went to see Jeremy Hardy last night at the King's Lynn Art's Centre. It was very ver' good.

For those of you who don't know him (philistines and foreigners) he is a stand up comic, perrier award winner in 1988, frequent News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue contestant and lefty.

I always know that the News Quiz is is likely to be something special when he is taking part, he frequently goes off on one about something producing marvelous semi surreal rants round the subject of the question. If he doesn't have a rant during the New Quiz my mother automatically assumes that the powers that be have censored him!

Unfortunately superb comedian that he is, Jeremy Hardy is not the complete rounded entertainer - he can't sing for toffee. He is awful, thin reedy and only vaguely aware of the key. Which makes One Song To The Tune of Another or Pick Up Song both exquisite and unique listening experiences when Hardy is called to take part.

(as an aside I think C30 C60 C90 by Bow Wow Wow would be good for pick up song)

So it was with an air of anticipation and excitement that Si and I took our seats last night.

He started with a few obvious although funny Norfolk jokes. Had we elections this last Thursday? No? Obviously the franchise hadn't reached this part of East Anglia, and from there he was off, mostly on tangents but always coming to his eventual point.

It wasn't always laugh out loud funny, don't think it was meant to be, Jeremy Hardy isn't like that smug faced git Jimmy Carr or Jim Davidson, firing off one liners like a constipated elephant. He relies only on his story telling skills, a plain stage no props or music,. We were educated as well as entertained and Jeremy didn't stick to the obvious targets of Blair, Bush and Cameron he also took swipes at the smug left too.

Anyways he is next performing in Bournemouth. To the people of Bournemouth my message is simple, rise up, get a ticket and go see him. That, and don't go to that awful Weatherspoons in the centre of town.

Photo from the BBC website

Nurse, The Screens!

It's a beautiful out there, the sun is shining people are walking about in shirtsleeves, the trees have bright vibrant green leaves on them.

I'm going to Happy Hour this afternoon with a friend, there is a good chance we will sit outside in the beer garden with a jug of pimms so this timely advice from the Guardian "Burning Questions" was useful. It reminded me that my sunblock is in the bathroom cupboard, not on me, D'oh. I don't do sunbathing, it's boring and it's bad for you, I think since 1989 I've deliberately sat out in the sun on two occasions, both were when we went to Cuba on holiday and even then I had my trusty factor 25 in my hand and spent most of my time "shade bathing". I need the sun screen because I catch the bus to and from work, there is almost no shade at either bus stop and the buses are rarely on time. Fortunately my friend Anne who I'm going to happy hour with doesn't do sun bathing either so we Will both be happy sitting in the shade and drink our pimms.

Now that spring is here with avengence I need to buy some summer shoes, get some more linen trousers and of course more sun block. Guess what we are doing this weekend Becky!

Mish Mash Post

First off check out

this

on Miss K's blog go on, everyone, It is too cool for words.

Second off, I have given Becky my cold I do apologise she is not a well bunny but it should clear up by about... tomorrow.

Third off - Chance flickr photo journalism, I hit refresh and saw this. The March in New York for and by immigrant workers.

Home

Home now, the cat is under the bed, I'm looking after her because my mum is having a new kitchen floor laid and Mum doesn't want to have paw prints in the tile cement.

Sophie's bbq was a success no-one as far as I'm aware has got food poisoning and we are all still talking to each other. Sophie did her impression of the "youth of today"



Much alcohol was consumed, I don't remember taking this photo at all, in fact I'm fairly positive I didn't.



The evening ended with a push to Curzon's or the watching of Dr Who, I watched Dr Who, probably the more sensible option because was getting to the point where another drink would have been too many. As it was we woke up feeling a tad jaded but otherwise not too fuzzy.