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Yes. The sunset was indeed very nice, as evidenced by the fact that there’s been no Photoshop trickery on that picture.
So, it was the bank holiday weekend, and with a half promise of good weather, we decided to take […]

Poor Omar. Skipping through Michael Manske’s Slovenian blog, I came across his entry about this year’s Slovenian entry: Stop by Omar Kareem.
I know the odds weren’t that good: one place I saw online just before the contest was giving 50:1, but Michael found odds of 229:1 which, as he points out, means
To put that into […]

When it comes to trains we live - very much - in a third world nation.
Chris of the Brennan is soon to be a married man, so the team is heading off to Leeds for the weekend to see it all happen, and so that Aston can wear clown shoes, as he has always promised […]

Having finished Casino Royale, I decided to carry on with the Bond books for a while and see how they panned out. Having been such a fan of the films for so long, I thought I really ought to see what inspired them.
I’ve read a few before: Diamonds are Forever and You Only Live Twice […]

I am 31, yet it took me until this weekend to finally see Return of the Jedi. Admittedly, it would have been even longer had Aston not told me I’d enjoy the ‘furry things’ in it.
Ho-hum.
It’s… hmmm… well, I found half way through that I was just waiting for it to end, really. Fortunately, as […]

What a bizarre Eurovision - as much for the fact that it went with the predictions as much as anything else. How (how, how, how) did Greece win? It’s beyond me. Such an average, ordinary song, it didn’t come close to some of the more innovative, interesting entries.
And what happened to the big four? The […]

It’s always nice to end the week with some happy nuts smiling up from your keyboard.

Disaster. What happened to Omar? He looked very uncomfortable up on stage on his own there, and half the time he seemed to be signalling to someone to turn up the music, as though he couldn’t hear it. All distracted, and looking all over the place, he barely moved an inch until the very end […]

So today we closed the issue, which is always a nice day. Well, actually, the day is never nice because it’s always horribly busy, but the end of it is good, when it’s all behind you and you know that tomorrow you start on a new one.
This one, though, has left me feeling utterly shattered, […]