Spring TV Choice

Ahhh, the BBC has rolled out its new Spring TV schedule for Saturday nights...

Plenty for Serena and I with the new series of Dr Who and a new "find someone to be in our muscial" show.

I even liked the new lottery show despite being utterly gutted about not reading about the London audition for it!  All that free time on my hands and I missed a TV Quiz Audition 2 miles from my house!

The "Catch-Up" show for the quiz clashes with our trip to Barcelona in June, so I can't even do that one!  Maybe I should look at Deal or No Deal?

PS  If James or Sally could drop me a note of which BSG episodes they have missed I will encode them to disc with the subtitles and pop them in the post.

Back Home

After a week in Edinburgh we are back home.

We had fun and I know Serena will blog and post photos at great length.

It was great to see Gareth in the flesh (as opposed to on my Screen Saver - don't ask!) and we hit it lucky with the weather for most of the stay, which is always a bonus in Edinburgh!

FastStone

A quick thanks to Gareth....
Your tip on the FastStone Image Viewer was a good one!

Back from first set of travels

Well we enjoyed a nice long weekend in York, which will get some serious blog treatment on the family blog soon.

Breakfast with Bill AGAIN today!  Isn't he lucky!

Pleasant Change

Yesterday was refreshing.

I met up with an agent in the morning and didn't leave the session thinking she was a complete prick.  In fact she gave me some REALLY good advice and we had a constructive chat about the market place.  Fingers crossed as always.

Since I was meeting her in a posh hotel, I thought I had better get reasonably well dressed up, so I had a shave, pulled out a smart pair of trousers, wore a shirt and even pulled out my "sports jacket".

I have to say I have missed being dressed up smart!  It was really nice to not feel scruffy!  I need to do that more often.

Although, walking the length of Oxford St in that geer turned our to be rather warmer than I expected for a March morning.

Hot Fuzz

Friday and a gamut of really annoying bullshitters (agents) drove me from the house to the cinema.  It was a toss up between Blood Diamond and Hot Fuzz.

Well I decided that "comedy" over "gritty" was what I needed so I settled down in the Vue Acton (a generic Vue cinema clone) and sat back for what I assumed would be a load of pants.

Oh how wrong could I be.

This film is silly.  This film is daft.  This film was exactly what I needed!

I laughed for the whole two hours.  This is way better than Shaun of the Dead.

GO AND SEE THIS FILM!  (If you are a guy)

I put that caveat at the end as some girls just won't get it as it is sooooo daft!  Others will love it just like I did.

Back to the Beginning

One of the original purposes of this blog was to share my movie reviews with a wider audience and to have an archive of them.  Clearly I haven't done this for a while, mainly because Lauren has prevented us from hitting the cinema.

Anyway I have been using my boredom filled moments to catchup on a few films on Sky Movies that I missed last year, so here are some short reviews.

Stealth:  Popcorn special for the boys (blue bikinis rule).  Beyond that it is crap.  5/10

Revolver: Eh?  I don't get it!  Enjoyable film but far too clever for me!  6/10

Red Eye:  Absolute rubbish!  3/10

Croupier:  Finally something worth watching!  Excellent cast and a great yarn!  7/10

Changing Lanes: Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson wasted on a terrible plot about nasty people!  5/10

The Libertine:  Under-rated Johnny Depp film.  Weird but enjoyable!  7/10

Chronicles of Narnia:  A hell of a lot better than I expected.  Something for the kiddies though.  7/10

One more to come, but that gets it's own post.

Great T-shirt

Natalie sent me this....

For some reason I thought of Julian!