Archive for August, 2006

International Swap to the rescue

Monday, August 7th, 2006

UPDATE: Thanks for all the swapping offers! I’m booked up for US swaps until late September but I still am looking for more Japanese swapping! Please kindly note I go back to college at the end of September so am likely to be very poor and not able to swap until Christmas when I will [...]

Our flat plans

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

The flat purchase is moving on slowly. Mainly it’s been the bank having a backlog of mortgage applications. We are still waiting on survey and search results. In the meantime my better half has been creating our perfect flat in Google ‘Sketch-Up’. Plan of the rooms we have looked at so far in the flat [...]

BBC4: Romanarama

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Saturday night looks like a bumper night for the hard disk recorder. BBC4 – my favourite channel – is starting to repeat that BBC classic “I Claudius” staring every British actor from just about forever. What a treat for the next 12 weeks. To get us in the mood BBC4 are warming up with a [...]

Critic

Friday, August 4th, 2006

I urge you, before the series finishes, to watch “Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe” at 10.30 Thursday night on BBC 4. Last night was episode 3 of 5 and we were wetting ourselves. After watching I will never be able to look at Anthony Worrell-Thompson beating a egg ever again. Sample dialogue: “That’s about as much [...]

Cinema: Not for the kiddies

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Saw the first bus-side advertisement today for Samuel L Jackson’s ‘Snakes on a Plane’. Hopefully this film will fall into the so bad it is good category. Any film that has the immortal line “There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!” promises much.