Hoorrah – my “to see” list is finally shrinking! Went to see the newest Harry Potter flick last night with the missus (first evening out together post-Ben, thanks to a wonderful friend who babysat!), and another friend at work has leant me The Two Towers, which will probably take us all week to watch! Saw […]

Thinking about language, I was pondering about the fact that I now use the term “guys” generically to refer to both men and women, but yet would still refer to something intrinsically male as being a “guy thing”. Similarly I suppose I might refer to something being “a girl thing”, but I can’t imagine ever […]

H’mm – addendum to last entry.. I can also recognise which Spice Girl is which just by their voices! 🙁

Been listening those crazy kittens (the atomic ones), and I put up my hand to liking their music – a great combination of catchy tunes, harmonies, some fantastic instrumentation and arrangements, and often quite memorable lyrics. ANYWAY, the point was that several times they use the word “baby” to refer to their romantic interest – […]

Ben’s first thunderstorm last night. At around 4am, two HUGE cracks of thunder woke A and I up (actually A says there were 4, so I must have missed the first 2), really rumbly ones that went on for ages.. We lay in bed waiting for Ben to start crying.. and waited.. and .. nothing […]

G’rrr – two very interesting looking films that aren’t (at present) going to be released in this country – Garden State, and Danny Deckchair. Import DVD it is! Check out the trailers (via imdb, for example)

And, as if having a huge list of films to-see wasn’t enough, I’ve also got a fairly substantial list of books which I think are worth a read. I’m going to list them here, ‘cos otherwise I’ll forget what they are! (the links of book titles are all to said books on Amazon). Philip Pullman […]

A sadness – my “to-see” list keeps getting longer, not shorter. Recently caught the trailer for Spiderman 2 which looks like an absolute stonker. Mind you, I just loved the first one! Films recently added are: King Arthur, Anchorman, Farenheit 9/11, and probably Wimbledon, although I’m reserving judgment on that a little. Mind you, off […]

Well, the last ever episode of Friends just aired, and like a thousand and one other people in the UK I’m blogging about it. Friends has been a part of life for as long as I can remember – when it first came out I wasn’t into it (mainly because everyone else was), but when […]

Shhhhhhhh – Ben’s made it to 7am (and counting!), In recent mornings he’s been waking at around 6!!