Quarantine. Week One.
So, homeschooling eh? Who knew? Who knew? At first you are enthusiastic. The school sets a little video on baby animals for the children to watch and you whack an
Stupid break down the lockdown boredom plan no. 218852.
Thanks to the all the lockdown shenanigans my working week has been pushed to the evenings and weekends (hello homeschooling, you daft bastard). Anyway, I came up with an idea
So this week I watched…
What did I watch this week? Well, obviously, I watched what everybody else did: the latest episode of Better Call Saul, the latest episode of Picard, and the first two
Don’t fly off the handle but I’m right off the Mantel
Doesn’t even rhyme, mate. It’s man tell not mantle. Fine. Whatever… So, right, hear me out, I like Hilary Mantel, I do, I really do, she’s great, but… …I struggle
What I learned from watching every Jason Statham movie. Part Four: Ghosts of Mars.
John Carpenter claims that he always intended Ghosts of Mars as an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek film; something like Commando or Rambo: First Blood Part II. I have no reason to doubt
Star Trek: The Next Generation characters ranked by how annoying they would become over a two week camping holiday in the south of France, maybe in Provence or the Languedoc region, somewhere with good wine, I mean all France has good wine but I had this really nice bottle in Collioure once and I was thinking something like that? Have you ever had violet flavour ice cream? I had some of that there too and it was delicious. There is a little stall that does what must be twenty flavours. Maybe thirty
OK, so you are going on a camping holiday in France and you need to take one of the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation with you. Don’t
Birds from your window. Jackdaw.
According to Peter Hill’s ‘Birds of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough’*, jackdaws were scarce in the area until about 1960 and the first communal roost wasn’t recorded until 1979. There are loads
