Latest patio pics

Here's some newer pics for your viewing pleasure. 7 May. 14 May.

Latest Superman trailer

Here's a link to the latest Superman trailer.

Scouses who use mouses

Apologies to anyone who may have read some of the comments on this site. Bryan, unable to resist a deep seating urge to post filth on any website that he encounters, enlisted the help of Scally to post some hilarious comments. I think this proves that Scousers are rightly thought of as the most intelligent ethnic group in the country.

One bonus of their visit was the leaving of a link to lost stag video footage. You can view it and marvel at blokes standing about, looking uncomfortable at being on camera. It's quite fuuny to relive the fact that they gave us guns though. All you need to do now Scally is sort out my wedding video. :)

More soiling action

Another weekend on the garden which involved the joyous task of getting rid of a skip full of soil.

Watched Wolf Creek which was an excellent tourism film for travelling in the Australian outback, if you like getting tortured. Mmmm, head on a stick. Lovely. The 'You call that a knife? This is a knife' rip-off of Crocodile Dundee was pretty funny though, in a kind off "something funny being repeated in a far from funny" type situation.

Also watched the Libertine, which was alright but a bit slow. although it did have some funny moments. I'm sure Lucy enjoyed it for the Johnny Depp side of things although he wasn't looking too pretty by the end of it. A lesson for us all, constant drinking and knobbing will catch up to you in the end. Venereal disease doesn't look like much fun.

Patio finished!

Doug & Marilyn were over again to help us finish off the patio. The last slab was laid just in time to watch the FA Cup final so that was a result. Cracking game, although I can only imagine the depth of emotional depression now being experienced by Sansom. I'm sure Nick will be there to comfort him when they next meet. :)

It was also Doug & Marilyn's wedding anniversary, so we went out for a meal at the Bel and Dragon in Cookham which was OK, although Doug wasn't too impressed by the chef deciding what type of potatoes you should have with your meal. Ask hime about it the next time you see him, I'm sure he'll fill you in.

On Sunday it was onto the path as the next stage, which will be another biggish job. I also finished Resident Evil 4, which is a cracking game.

Mum & Dad flying visit

Another flying visit from Mum & Dad, this time on their way through to Great Yarmouth for Uncle Bill's son's retirement party.

Of course!

The second course of bricks has been added. View it's magnificence!
Of course Lucy had to point out to me that you actually need to finish the job by doing the pointing but I say, screw pointing, it looks fine as it is. Anyway, its done, the quicker a shed gets put in front of it the better. Next, skirting board in the lounge, the challenge awaits.

Baltic Restaurant, Southwark

We met up with Lucy and Bryan last night for a meal at the Baltic Restaurant in Southwark. It was pretty swanky and the food was very nice. The Lagavulin we had to finish off was very smooth (one to try Greg!). Had a few drinks in the Ring next door, where I was surprised to hear that Bryan was intending to replace his stairway with a fireman's pole but then he's always been partial to a bit of pole action. We managed to get the midnight train home, which stops at about 20 stations and takes a bloody age. The temptation to just screw it and get a dirty cab for 50 quid is pretty high.

What a bunch of punts

Jeff was over in Oxford this week, meeting up with Bob F. Jeff wanted to experience the white-knuckle ride that is punting, so we went to the Cherwell boathouse and hired a couple of punts. Conclusion: punting is a pretty stupid way of getting about on a river and should be banned, replacing the punts will those big-fan airboats that they have in the Florida everglades, as shown in Gentle Ben.

Maximum strippage!

Another Bank Holiday, another load of DIY. After spending Saturday doing sod all (which was much needed to recover from Guy & Ginette's wedding), we decided to get rid of the cryptalike, purple wallpaper that had dazzled all visitors to our dining room. No more sitting in gloom, we now have bare plaster instead, which you'd think would be terrible but is, in fact, a massive improvement. I'd hoping we can just leave it like this and not have to wallpaper the room but it's unlikely that that will be allowed.