blogcity

Bournemouth 0 – 0 Grimsby Town

December 13, 2003

OK, so they didn’t win, and today’s match against Grimsby Town will hardly have been the highlight of the Cherries’ supporters’ calendars as once more they played like spanners, but it was fun. The Cherries and Grimsby Town warm up It's obligatory, but the referee was indeed a ____er, a ____er and a ____er of […]

Read the full article →

Things that suck about moving house

December 12, 2003

A few years ago, when I worked for PwC, their stationery cupboard used to be home to some really nice notebooks. The paper was nice and thick and brightly coloured, they were spiral bound, and they had covers hard enough to be half-decent to lean on. Unsurprisingly, at the end of my contract there I… […]

Read the full article →

No, please, someone tell me this is a joke…

December 12, 2003

From BBCi, written by Nev Pierce: Quentin Tarantino is laughing his ass off. At John Cleese. “Are you kidding? He cracks me up! Don't mention the ****ing war, man!” Goose-stepping across his LA office in a demented impression of the once-funny comic, QT is enthusing about Fawlty Towers – his soon-to-be-hugely-hyped adaptation of the 70s […]

Read the full article →

Is that your car alarm?

December 11, 2003

My parents recently bought a new car, a Toyota somethingorother. It's green. The number plate includes the letters 'zwa' which is how I recognise it: because whassisname from Smashing Pumpkins has a new band called Zwan. At 5.30am, from the depths of peaceful dreams about getting text messages via my tray whilst eating at a […]

Read the full article →

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand…

December 10, 2003

Actually, his name is John Taylor and he'll be just a matter of feet (or maybe yards, who can tell) away from me on 13 April 2003 at Wembley Arena as Kate and I boogie on down in a rather manic fashion to the music of newly reformed Duran Duran. Oh yes. JT. In the […]

Read the full article →

Curious minds think alike

December 9, 2003

Only this weekend I was wondering how many UK blogs there are. Maybe it's something in the water, because today Tom Coates was wondering the same: Now there's no really useful way of effectively measuring these things, but it occurs to me that we'd probably be able to motivate a good number of people to […]

Read the full article →

Go Cherries! Ra! Ra! R… er… or something

December 9, 2003

For god's sakes, don't tell anyone, but it looks like I'm going to be going to the footie on Boxing Day* with my brother. His friend and fellow Bournemouth FC supporter Wayne is away on holiday in Australia, so Tony has his season ticket and I get to use it on Boxing Day. I've only […]

Read the full article →

A poor facsimile

December 9, 2003

It's such a shame that my digital camera can't adequately show you what I see – a big bright golden full moon, hanging in the sky like a misplaced Christmas bauble, staring at me over the bare branches of winter. Instead, you'll have to make do with this poor representation. Just try to spruce it […]

Read the full article →

Dear Father Christmas

December 8, 2003

Anonymous sources have recently alerted me to a somewhat illuminating conversation between a Christmas plaintiff and a representative of Santa Claus Inc., Lapland. The world should know about this disgrace, so I include the entire correspondence here for your elucidation. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Warning: Language. * *** * Dear Father […]

Read the full article →

You learn something new every day, despite trying very hard not to

December 8, 2003

Today I learnt that no matter how shitty I'm feeling, there's always someone around who'll help make me feel better. I also learnt that I am officially a watje. No, I am. And I'm a big girl's blouse too.

Read the full article →

Oh look! A badger with a gun…

December 8, 2003

Can you see?

Read the full article →

The Monmouth Ash

December 7, 2003

Just watched the last episode of Charles II – The Power and the Passion. One thing the BBC does do very well is period drama, and you don't come much more dramatic than the reign of Charles II. The power struggles between the King and the treacherous Buckingham; the conniving and scheming Barbara Villiers; the […]

Read the full article →

You spin me right round, baby, right round

December 7, 2003

The fact that it's taken me a week to get round to writing down my thoughts about Matrix: Revolutions should give you some inkling of how underwhelmed I was by it. Even sitting there at the IMAX, watching it on a huge screen that should make me feel like I'm part of the action, I […]

Read the full article →

Where is everyone?

December 6, 2003

Many of my daily blog reads have gone all quiet. I wonder where everyone is? Christmas shopping I suppose.

Read the full article →

The sound of a house sale about to collapse

December 5, 2003

This time last week, it looked as if the sale of my parents' house was going to go through with no hitches. They say that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences you can go through, after bereavements, losing a job and serious illness, but my Mum was perplexed. “Don’t know what people […]

Read the full article →