meg has managed to keep me awake for the last half hour or so with her album cover challenge, where she has skilfully photoshopped out immediately identifying features from 60 album covers, i.e. the album title and artist(s) name(s), and asked everyone to figure out what each of them is. I’ve managed 17 out of […]
My paternal grandmother Ella Anderson died this evening, only about two hours ago. I knew her pretty well, but probably not as much as I’d have liked. She’s been in hospital through in Edinburgh for the last couple of months trying to fight off infections after what the doctors couldn’t decide was a stroke or […]
John Cleese on fame, Python, ranches and kids: “Put it this way,” said Cleese. “In England, in terms of well-known-ness, I’m Newcastle United. Over here, I’m Bristol City…”
I just tried eating a Cadbury’s Flake Snow, and it’s awful. I’m not a big chocolate eater, I have maybe 3 or 4 bars of chocolate a month, and one thing I don’t like is white chocolate, which a Flake Snow has on the inside — it’s more like a Twirl than a “proper” Flake. […]
The ‘Skins went 2-1 this weekend after losing to the NY Giants in overtime. Come on, guys, don’t repeat last season! The next game against the Giants is in December at Meadowlands – I smell revenge!
On what must have been the bestest day to play with thespool, #evolt’s very own blogbot, it was Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday (Official British HQ), and we were at it like troopers, errr, pirates. Arrrrr. Ah, sorry, it’s next year now, isn’t it.
Another amazon.com easter egg has popped up, a Key Tronic PC keyboard for — <drevil> one million dollars! </drevil>
I decided to treat myself to a new DVD player to replace my aging DV-530, and at the same time got a couple of DVDs back from Ade, who had kidnapped them in a brutal attempt to deprive me from watching movies about cheerleading, six foot bunnies, and evil empires. That got me to thinking, […]