The original purpose of this site was to vent and rhyme - little articles and rants, poems etc - but looking back over my posts, Ive been somewhat sidetracked with stupidity. Sometimes for the best in hindsight

It seems fashionable in cinema and fashion to revisit the past at the moment. So with that in mind, and Spring in full swing, what better occasion to re-examine what I started out to achieve, and hopefully get back to doing properly soon.

Collected 'Works'

Rants and Articles Dec 05 - Apr 06:

- Havent I seen you somewhere before?

- Shoppers Curfew

- Compensation Culture

- Fuming

- Trials and tribulations of the single thirtysomething male

- Blowing smoke rings

- Do you take plastic?

- Would you like fries with that?

- Are you one of these people?

- England PLC

Poems Dec 05 - Apr - O6

Impotent; a poem in progress

A poem, a hope

A poetic analogy
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Something for a Wednesday...Part 2

Theres nothing like a sunny, warm Bank Holiday weekend is there? Ah...see, you thought I was going for the easy 'and that was nothing like one' gag there didnt you? Go on, admit it.

Wasnt though was it?

It was as hit and miss as a narcoleptic boxer. Actually to be fair, it was very nice in places. And what the weather didnt deliver on, the time spent made up for it.

Without further ado, some more things I didnt put in part 1:

- Friday night, we went for a lovely meal at a Chinese restaurant. Vegetarian set menu, bottle of Tiger, bottle of wine. Mmmm and mmmm. It was gorgeous. The main course was 'Mock Duck'. Yes, I thought they should have named it better too. But, it was absolutely stunning. And the sauce...oooh heaven. Anyway, yes, it was a very nice evening.

- Lots of walks. There are nature reserves hidden all over Winchester it seems. Investigated a new one on Sunday. Which was nice. Even saw some deer. Theres not much that beats going for a walk near the river, or sitting on a bench by it, taking in the views and breathing in the air. Roll on the next one.

- Want to write things in 'Biscuit text'? Who doesnt! Go here and play to your hearts content. Crumb free too.

- Did you know Audrey Hepburn was actually a Belgian? No, neither did I.

Right, Im off to do some work, then burn a Summer cd. Sad arent I.

Adios.

Something for a Wednesday...Part 1

Wednesday. The top of the mountain. Mid-point to the week where the hard slog is close to over and its downhill for the rest of the time. With a little incline again on Thursday afternoon. Even better when its a bank holiday week - Monday was the equivelant of being carried on Yaks for the day before having to trek up the mountain on your own.

Sorry, went off on one a bit there.

What have I learned and done this week? Well Ill tell you shall I?

- My fingers seem to attract invites to be cut to shreds all the time. I think my index and little fingers are the appendage equivelant of hardcore nutters. "Come on, knife me then if youve got the bottle". They never learn. Twice this week its happened - and thats on top of burning off my fingerprint a few weeks ago. I still cant believe I managed to serate the edge of my finger to near dropping of point with....a reed. Okay, I exaggerate. But it hurt.

- PlayDoh celebrates its 50th birthday today (if what I read is to be believed)

- The Badgers won some sweets for being clever.

- And apparently Mexico had the largest gross national debt of any country in 1992.

- James Brown is 72 today. And still looks like my late nan. Except she wasnt black. Or male. Nor got done for pistol brandishing. Not to my knowledge anyway. There was that incident once when she asked those youths to stop kicking the ball in her garden.

- We've got a tent and its fab!

- Hi:Fi is 4 weeks away!

Time for dinner. More to follow in our afternoon bulletin including:

Mock Duck ~ better than it sounds
Nature ~ isnt it fab!
The secret to eternal youth ~ not really.

really shouldnt be giving this site free publicity, I think they do enough damage as it is!

But thanks to Empire magazine, Ive been alerted to it - so think you should be too.

The Childcare Action Project Movie Ministry

Do you see what they did at the end there? Clever.

Sample quote from the home page: "PLEASE! If this ministry fails, it will not be Jesus' will. It will be because of the unwillingness of the thousands upon thousands of people who use it to help with the expenses. This "free lunch" cannot be free much longer."

They score the film out of 100 and rate it across several categories including:

Impudence/Hate
Offense to God
Sexual Immorality

and many many more! A perfect score is obviously 100 (surely it should be 3 for the holy trinity??)

In my mind, a thoroughly reprehensible idea, but make your own minds up. Some films arent even given a rating because the reviewer did not sit through it to pass judgement. Idiots.

http://www.capalert.com/