Doctor Who - The Christmas Special!

The Christmas Special - The Next Doctor? Well, 1850's London looked eerily similar to 2008 Cowbridge, a little town about 20 minutes drive from here (a very expensive one, too!) - but in spite of the unexpected familiarity, the Christmas special really did live up to all of the hype & production promises!

A great show - probably the best Xmas plot in ages, and a real bad villain, in the form of Irish actress Derla Kirwan. Terrifying with those black contacts!

Thought David Morrissey played a very sad 'Doctor'. He'd been zapped by the cybermen sometime before, and his memory had been confused & frazzled with the Cyber database on The Doctor. Morrissey's character therefore thought he was actually the Doctor, and played out the role as best he could. Sadly, he was no timelord, just a rich business man with some of the Doctors implanted memories. His 'sonic screwdriver' was - a screwdriver and his 'TARDIS' - a balloon he thought would take him into space.

I'm not sure he would have made 'The Next Doctor' - his character was eccentric, disturbed & pained, just like a timelord should be, but somehow - he would never have been a replacement for Tennant.

Great show, fantastic characterization, superb plot and some good guest actors. shame it was only an hour long - expected ninety minutes. Still, made Xmas bearable - but no more Who until Easter - when we get.. wait for it.. THE EASTER SPECIAL!

Can't Wait!

Huzzah! The Christmas Special approaches!!

David Tennant returns to our screens in one of his final appearances as the immortal Timelord on Christmas day, at 6pm on BBC Wales.

Also appearing as the Doctor, well, possibly not 'the' doctor, but certainly 'a' doctor is David Morrissey, who plays the part of a future regeneration of the Timelord. The BBC have stated that Morrissey is not going to take over from Tennant, when his reign as the 10th Doctor comes to an end next Christmas, in the last of four specials to be shown throughout 2009. Apparently, this will become obvious during the show.

Both Doctors (each equipped with a TARDIS and sonic Screwdriver) battle their arch enemies the Cybermen, who are as evil and as menacing as ever. In reality, there are only 6 cybermen - they're very expensive to make, as are the animatronic kits which control some of their 'parts'. Clever technology is used to multiply the cybermen, to give the illusion of their appearance en masse. This was the same technique used in Torchwood: where there were only two fully functioning Weevils, and 4 'simple mask' version. On set - there were often dozens!

The plot to this year's show is fairly typical of some earlier Xmas specials, with a few laughs & a lot of 'tongue in cheek' stuff. The show also has its dark moments, though. One minor criticism - unless this has been changed post-production, the arrival of the Tardis in London (or really, Cowbridge, S. Wales) looks pretty naff... and is obviously a fairly clumsy overlay. Let's hope this is sorted prior to transmission!
  

The picture shows Doctor Who cast & crew, who I saw when they were filming this year's Xmas special some months ago.

This was actually filmed on a warmish day in July, and no, this is not 1850's London, it's really 2008 Cowbridge - a smart village in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 15 miles from Cardiff.

The snow looks real enough, but in reality, it was a kind of foamy stuff which actually stuck to, and marked your clothes. It constantly had to be re-sprayed throughout the take.

So, remember... Doctor Who, Christmas Day, 6pm on BBC Wales, and on BBC 1 in the rest of the UK. It'll be worth a watch!! 

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ for more info, games, downloads & video. 

The new Doctor? Perhaps... or perhaps not!

Actor Paterson Joseph, the man held by many media reports to be one of the favourites to land the role of the Eleventh Doctor, has spoken to the BBC News website about the speculation surrounding his possible casting.

"His [the Doctor's] parameters are so vast. I don't see why he can't have more regenerations than the 13 that those who know think a Time Lord can have," he told the website. Joseph previously appeared in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" as Rodrick, and the BBC reports that bookmakers are offering 3-1 odds on him becoming the first black actor to play the Doctor.

Joseph also claims to be a fan of the sci-fi genre, claiming that: "In no other genre can you be believable as an immortal character. I love sci-fi for that, so yeah - I'm a big fan."

Hmm... Watch this space!

The next doctor??

Just a note about 'The Next Doctor'..

Well, the Christmas Special of Doctor Who is oddly called... 'The Next Doctor', and features TWO doctors. The (sadly) outgoing David Tennant, and David Morrissey, who plays 'The Next Doctor'.

It's all very confusing, and gets worse, especially when 'The Next Doctor' is not actually going to be the next doctor, if you get what I'm trying to say. This is good news, as David Morrissey lacks those essential qualities a Time Lord has to have.

So, it is good news - though David Morrissey will play 'The Next Doctor; in the Christmas-day special, he is not actually going to be David Tennant's replacement.

Who is? Hmm... That'd be telling!

David Tennant and a female Doctor Who??

Award-winning actor and mega-star, David Tennant leaves Doctor Who after filming four specials, to be shown during 2009. I can confirm that David's final appearance as the Time Lord will be in the Christmas Special, 2009.

When interviewed for BBC Wales, the Scottish actor refused to confirm, however, that this was a 'final' departure, adding that 'doors would remain open'. Interesting!

After briefly meeting Russell T. Davies today - I can confirm that in spite of all the hype and rumor, the 11th Time Lord will NOT be a woman. How wrong that would have been anyway!

Here are ten things you (probably) didn’t know about David!

1. David was born David John McDonald in 1971 in West Lothian, Scotland. His father was a Presbyterian minister and is now a member of the Scottish cabinet.

2. David was barely out of nappies when he decided to become an actor. He recalls: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else."

3. David was so crazy about Doctor Who as a child that he had a Tom Baker doll, made his gran knit him a multi-coloured scarf and once wrote a school essay declaring that he would one day play the role.

4. David is a huge fan of Madonna. The first single he bought was 'Like A Virgin' and he credits the Queen of pop with kick-starting his sexual awakening at the age of 13. Oo-er!

5. (Not confirmed!) David took his pseudonym from Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant after finding that another actor shared his real name. He explains: "I was on the bus looking through Smash Hits and I saw Neil Tennant. I thought it would be a good name as it's got a good number of consonants in it." Well, it's as sensible a reason as any! (Sorry! My theory may have been wrong - not sure!)

6. David once lodged with Arabella Weir from The Fast Show and is godfather to her youngest child. He says of the experience: "She probably corrupted me, but I probably needed corrupting a little bit."

7. David received such a scathing review playing King Arthur on stage in only his second job that it made him weep. The critic wrote: "The cast of 18 are uniformly excellent with the exception of David Tennant, who lacks any charm or ability whatsoever." No doubt that nasty man is eating his words now.

8. David counts McDonald's restaurants, astrology, Cliff Richard and the Conservative party among his biggest dislikes. On the other hand, he adores Honeynut Shredded Wheat, Alfred Hitchcock, The West Wing and The Proclaimers.

9. David has auditioned no fewer than six times for a part in Scottish detective drama Taggart, with no success. Maybe it's worth giving it one more shot, Dave!

10. David held 'passing wind' contests with John Barrowman on the Doctor Who set. After finding out that Freema Agyeman was less than keen on the practice, they began "saving them up" and waiting until she walked past to "thunder one out". Charming!

There's your ten facts!

David Tennant quits Doctor Who. I'm depressed.

David Tennant sensationally announced that he was quitting Doctor Who at the end of filming the current specials here in Cardiff.

Tennant made this shock announcement as he was given Actor of the Year Award a the National Television Awards on Wednesday evening, during which Doctor Who got the award for best TV Drama - for the fourth year running.

By far the best Doctor Who ever, the Scottish actor who plays the tenth Time Lord confirmed that he was to remain in place for all of the four specials, to be aired at Christmas, and thru'out 2009. Tennant, who addressed the awards ceremony during the interval at his stage show, where he is playing in Hamlet, then dramatically announced he'd not be appearing in the fifth series.

Tennant was reputedly offered £3 million ($4.5 million) to play the Time Lord for two more series, yet he disappointed millions of adoring fans, including myself, using that age old cherry - that he felt it was time to move on, and that he didn't want to end up "being wheeled out of the Tardis in his carpet slippers". Maybe it's just greed - with gargantuan offers allegedly having been made for lucrative projects in the US.

But, who'll be holding the Tardis keys in 2010?

Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has often been mentioned as the actor in the frame to become the 11th timelord, but bookmakers Paddy Power favour Paterson Joseph as the favourite to take over the role, offering odds of 3-1 on him becoming the first black doctor. He is so wrong for the role. Unlike Tennant, there's no humor, no sex appeal, no mystery - just a steely stereotype of.. himself.

Nesbitt appeared in two earlier episodes of the show playing Roderick alongside previous doctor, Christopher Eccleston.

Joseph, 44, trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and is probably most familiar to television viewers as Mark Grace in Casualty, and he also starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Hollywood film The Beach. Talent? Yes. Sex appeal? For me, not really.

Life on Mars star John Simm and his co-star David Morrisey (who looks like a jacket potato) in political drama State of Play are also given odds of 8-1 and 5-1 respectively to pick up the keys to the Tardis. He'd be a disaster - and for me at least, a total turn-off.

All of these, with the exception perhaps of the enigmatic John Simm (who previously played the Master) are dull and uninspiring. More shocking - and for me, a killer, is the rumor that the BBC Wales' producers are even considering a woman for the role. No issues with women - but definitely NOT as Doctor Who!

Watch this space - I have my ear to the ground!

Disappointed - and a depressing time in my life has now become unbearable. I really, really really do need a new life.

Chris@Torchwood, CF

Powerizers rock!

Great day down Cardiff Bay. Was totally fascinated by a load of guys leaping around - seemingly 6 to 12 feet into the air on these strange, kangaroo-leg devices called 'Powerizers'.

These are clearly awesome, must-have devices, though I'm told they're hard to impossible to learn to use. Kneepads clearly essential - the prospect of landing on knees at full force from these heights makes the happiest of faces grimmace.

Still, at about £200, Powerizers seem like real fun, and Cardiff Bay, with its many promenades, piers & boardwalks, plus ample stappage is the ideal place to own & use them!

Other highlights: A visit to Cadwaladr's Ice Cream parlor - with a delicious vanilla, chocolate, mint chip & crunchy caramel ice cream (massive, ant total, unmitigated greed) and a group of 60+ year old women singing "nice & easy" songs on the Tesco's Stage at the Millennium Center. Unforgettable! (Who were they?)

Settled down to TV now... The Real ER on DMAX... What a way to end the day!

Chris@TW in Cardiff

The search for a quiet breakfast!

Isn't life strange? You set out for breakfast on a quiet Saturday morning, and you just want somewhere quiet to relax & engulf approximately 2,000 calories of delicious saturated fats, for a cost of somewhat less than three squid.

There's a choice of options... Morrisons & IKEA being about the best, PitStop Cafe being a clost third. Then there's the caravan club: great breakfast, £3.50: but sour service from a total misery!

The choice is made. It's Morrisons: get in before 10.00, and it'll be quiet. Service will be quick.. and the bacon will be CRISPY!

Then... where to sit?? Avoid the Chav table... bound to be vulgar. Avoid the high chair area - bound to be babies. (though cute - some might scream- and I need peace!).

Hmm... the area near to the newspaper corner looks cool - there's no one there, and who' s likely to want to read the Times?? After sitting down, somewhat satisfied that you actually made it for breakfast.. one quickly becomes aware of a snoring sound from behind.

Then moaning... then the sound of demented words, being spoken, appearently to nobody. Then shouting, and the smell of alocohol. Finally, the sight of that old, grey crumpled suit. CURSES! You've been joined by the village idiot - the token nuisance, found in every breakfast cafe, every day!!!

Blast! I tried so hard to find the right place... but it's all gone wrong! Subtle plan: The Change of Table routine. This is done by pretending you've forgotten something, say milk for the tea. Carefully, grab your breakfast, lift your coat and head stealthily for a distant table, picking up the milk as you go. A table is found... peace & tranquility is restored.

For 30 seconds.

The sight of McKenzie trackpants, a dodgy baseball cap (Nike, of course) and K-Swiss trainers. You've been joined by the CHAV FAMILY FROM HELL (or more probably, Barry).

Fortunately, after taking a fw moments to snigger & the idea of someone wearing Converse & Skinny jeans (hysterical, I know)... The family of Welsh Vicki Pollards move on... to smoke outside the store.

Life is good!
Torchwood CF

Fantastic weekend, doing very little in Cardiff. At last, we had three days of late summer, and it brought everyone out - the town full of loads of different accents, proving that half of Swansea, Bridgend, Newport, The valleys and apparently Lithuania had hit the town to make the most of this far too rare weather - 26'C at is't peak - the hottest October day in Wales for over ten years! ( I love this global warming!)

Saturday saw Wales play Liechtenstein in the fantastic Millennium stadium, in the World Cup Football early qualifiers. - apparently the country has only TEN professional footballers, so they had to train some more up just for the match. Oddly enough - Wales won, though to be honest - they played poorly, and didn't really deserve it.

Great to see flag sellers, the usual (screaming) Sons of Jesus, the sad guy with the plastic microphone & tin pot full of copper coins, and... direct from Hot Fuzz (great film!).. one of those CURSED moving statues!

Saturday afternoon - the park, sunbathing & watching some free-runners do impossible things which defied gravity... God knows how that was possible! Fascinating - very entertaining, and incredibly brave! Good also to see several ice cream vans & a Hot Dog van (they're common over here) adding to that 'fiesta' atmosphere!

Sunday - as ever, FAR too big a lunch (pork this time) plus a 6 mile walk from Penarth, over the Barrage to Cardiff Bay and its many attractions. Great views of ships in the channel, WSM looking close enough to touch - but still an agonizing 70 minute drive away in reality, and a number of jetskis flirting around. Managed a sleep on the Barrage - always a pleasure AND a 400 kilogram ice cream from Cadwaladr's Ice Cream Parlor. Awesome stuff - totally & utterly addictive!

Then it was Monday.... the rest... you can guess!

Summer-like October day in Central Cardiff. A view of the National Museum of Wales from the park.

Lots of sun, quite a few people and the odd Liechtensteiner looking very out of place.

We've even got shouting religious maniacs and a cursed moving statue a la Hot Fuzz - everyone's out today!!

"Velcome to Three! how may I make your day a misery??"

The familiar sound of Three Customer Services.... guaranteed to make even the nicest, calmest, sanest of us decline into absolute misery, and even the most saintly individual collapse into a rabid fit of four-letter profanities, rather reminiscant of a 1970's Sex Pistols concert. (Man... they were good!)

Buying a new phone is always an awesome experience, especially for those of us just a little too far over on the geeky side of life (GUILTY and well proud!). Nothing beats the excitement of a new Nokia, or even the sheer unmitigated pleasure of the iPhone 3G (excuse me, I feel feint!!).... the sheer ecstasy of opening the box & peering at the new beast for the first time.... Sigh!

However, delight soon turns to unbelieving disappointment when after dialling 333 and encountering Three Customer (Dis)Services for the first time, perhaps to ask the simplest of questions, or just to speak to someone (vaguely) human cuz you're sad & bored, you realise in an instant.... you should have stuck with 0-range, Vodaclone, O-god or Nearly Mobile - or anyone other than Three!

Those famous words... "Velcome to Three, Mr....... How ken I help yeeuw" start off the conversation that soon turns to an abject shambles. "Ken you help me with your pahs vord"... then, soon after... "Vell, I am wery sorry, but that is not the pahs vord I have vritten down for you"...

Things quickly go from bad to worse, and it becomes crystal clear that what ever you want, you ain't going to get it. Whatever you ask. the reply comes straight from a screen prompt - you're actually talking to a robot.... Frustration builds! To save the day, and to help keep you calm, you ask for a supervisor.

"Vill you kindly vait, Mr. **** vile I get the superwiser for you" At last , hopes rise, as you're about to be addressed by a higher life form... then, all of a sudden, and totally out of the blue... MEEP MEEP MEEP!! The call hasdropped... they cut you off....

You queued for 40 minutes to get thru first time... and had to make 1,000 choices to speak to an allegedly-living human... Your heart sinks, your energy drains... and the only thing that can save the day is.... hot chocolate... rieki massage... aromatherapy... and that classic McFly video!

The future's bright!

Have a nice day!

Torchwood, Cardiff!

In the interests of balance...

Having just published the hideous image of the Indonesian Treeman, I feel compelled to restore karma by adding a supplementary image - this time, something nice. What comes immediately to mind is Andrew van Wijngaarden - of MGMT.

Great band - check them out on YouTube, or buy their excellent 'electro' album, 'Oracular Spectacular'. The best tracks to sample are 'Time to Pretend'; 'Kids' and 'Pieces of What'.

Check it out!!

Torchwood!

The Treeman & Shizz...

Got home after a LONG day at HQ and a meeting which was as long as a giraffe's neck, but not quite as hairy.

My first action was to put on Kerrang! - as I needed rock therapy to put me in the mood to attack a mountain of dishes, which had somehow grown massively over the past few days. I'm sure the neighbor is creeping in with extra ones, just to add extra pain to the misery!

Dishes done - the next task was to put on the TV - perhaps for something light & cheerful, like Buzzcocks, or Torchwood. Sadly - my fingers found Channel 254, Discovery Home & Health, a channel I've previously banned myself from watching. Instantly - I was hooked on the story of the Indonesian Tree Man, a sad guy who's body has been infested with fungus & warts, giving him, suprisingly, the appearance of a tree.

His hands look like bark, with foot-long branch things coming out, and tangled 'roots' everywhere. Pretty sick - but addictive TV, and fascinating science! They were just about to use a saw to remove some of the 'branches' when those fatal words sounded out: "Next week on Extraordinary People!"

Curses!! I'll have to wait till Thursday now!

No real news - but did bang into John Barrowman on Sunday afternoon, almost literally. I was out shopping in Windsor Road, Penarth, (the seaside suburb of Cardiff) - when I noticed two guys - one in jeans & a brown leather jacket. The accent gave it away - it was John.

He was out with his partner, trying not to get recognised. He seemed largely to get away with it. I did resist the temptation to speak...(or am I not totally telling the truth on this minor point!!)

Gotta go....time for The Real E.R!!!

Have a cool week!

Torchwood CF

Testing out Shozu!

Just testing an iPhone app called Shozu. Seems to offer a lot - but can I get it to work?!

I'll let you know in a month!

Just a test from Shozu, I think!

Trying to work out how to use Shozu

A rather dull & uneventful week...

As it says on the can, it's been an uneventful week, with not much happening.
It is good, however, to see Bruce Forsyth back on Strictly Come Dancing - what a great show, and a total complement to Simon Cowell's X Factor on Saturday night!! TV has never been so.... entertaining!!

At 116 years of age, Brucie is one of TV's oldest presenters, and some say, one of the most loved. Sadly, his jokes are just as old as he is - and so many of them fall flatter than a steam-rollered pancake on the flattest day of the decade. It's just embarrassing to see the jokes fail.... the tumbleweed of silence go drifting across the studio floor.. and the hilarious fake laugh of the judges, and then audience as the Floor Manager saves the day... and tells every one to laugh.

Poor Brucie.


I love the judges... Friendly Len, always keen to give someone a reassuring comment & a second chance, even if they're as lame on the dancefloor as a centipede with piles. My favorirte has to be Craig Revel-Horwood... Totally acidic, and with a manner to wither even the proudest performer.

As for X Factor... Simon rules for sure, even though he does pull his trousers up almost as far as his eyebrows. I loike d the (pathetic) Michael Jackson contestant - who thought he was a million dollars, but who was really yesterday's cold chips; and totally deluded!

As for me... Magners tonight... Indian meal in Penarth tomorrow... drive some where on Sunday... and we all know what Monday brings!!

Torchwood is supposed to be back soon - but as suspected, only for a run of 5 shows, over a one week period. Sort of like a full-on Torchwood week, I guess.If this goes well - maybe we'll get a new 13 part series in 2009 / 2010, to coincide with the full return of Doctor Who - but who knows for sure.

Watch this space - I'll post as soon as I know!!

Have a nice weekend!
TW-CF

The good old UK!

I'm getting totally fed up with the UK, and living here.

The country is on a downwards spiral, and we're fast becoming a near-fascist state, where everything is illegal, and everyone is a suspect, and is watched, accordingly.

We live in the country with the biggest number of CCTV cameras, with people able to be followed 24/7.

Soon, our cars will be fitted with satellite tracking devices, officially for road pricing, but in reality, so that we can be tracked & spied upon.

ID cards, if they come in, will carry a 'proximity chip', which can be scanned from a distance of 400 meters. Another state spy keeping tabs on us.

The weather's crap - and we get no decent summers at all. This year has been a washout - no two good days together, lots of rain and just miserable coldness. Experts say that this will continue, ironically, as part of 'climate change'.

Prices are going up and up - yet wages stay the same. We're all getting poorer by the day, and our currency, the pound gets weaker & weaker, making abroad impossibly expensive. The government says inflation is at 5%, but experts put it at 20%, yet pay rises are less than 2%.

We're 18% poorer each year...There are laws for this, and laws for that - everything is illegal, and everyone is being made a criminal. Over 10,000 new laws have come in in the last ten years, yet there is more crime and life is worse.You can't say anything controversial without breaking a law, and when you vote - even who you vote for is recorded, in case it can be used against you later.

There is no Privacy - even Facebook is trawled by 'agencies' to see if anyone says or writes something of note... Your computer use is logged - and recorded for years, even the digital TV channels you watch are recorded, monitored and stored.There are spy cameras everywhere, and we're watched doing everything.

We all must be criminals - cuz that's what's assumed. We have our photos, fingerprints & DNA taken if we're arrested - or even questioned by the Police - and this is kept FOREVER, even if we're totally innocent. Even if innocent - our details are still kept, and we're still looked at with suspicion.

We can't talk to kids, cuz that'd make us pedos. Some of us are afraid even to be talked to by kids, in case it's taken the wrong way.

Should we really be made to feel like this? We can't take pictures in town, we can't take pictures of people; - cuz that would make us perverts, or terrorists. or whatever other label they want to pin on us.

That's soon to be made illegal, anyway.We can't leave the UK, get on a plane or ferry without ID, and these details are recorded & stored. Our bank transactions all get copied to the Police & IRS, and even what we spend is analysed.

We're taxed to breathe, out hospitals are filthy & full of bugs & medicines aren't supplied to those who need them because they're not 'cost effective'. People come into the country and get benefits galore, and totally preferential treatment, and rights, and concessions - which we have to pay for - yet we get nothing, and are treated as second class people in the country of our ancestors. Is this right - or the road to ruin?

Global warming & terrorism are always the excuse given, but in reality, global Warming is not caused by man, and terrorism, or the threat from it has not changed. We're losing our freedon in the UK.

We're sleep walking into state control, and we're too blind to see it. Soon, like dogs, we'll all be chipped & tagged, unable to move without permission, and afraid to breathe in case we fall foul to the law, the thought police, or those just out to get us.

Time to get out...actively working on a plan... Many of us would be wise to do the same.

Think I'm paranoic? Well, wait & see... lots of things which have happened over the past ten years would one thought never possible, yet they happened!

DOCTOR WHO MOVIE TO BE MADE??

Catherine Zeta-Jones could be set to star in a movie version of Doctor Who - if the show's creator has anything to do with it.

Russell T Davies told a UK newspaper that the Welsh beauty would be the ideal sidekick to the Time Lord if the show was to make it on to the big screen."Being from Wales myself, I'd love to have Catherine Zeta Jones as a companion for the Doctor," he told the newspaper.

But he added that there was just one man for the Doctor's job - that man being current Doctor Who David Tennant."To have anyone else would be inconceivable," he said.

However, last month new Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat suggested a film was not his priority."I haven't had time to spit, let alone make a film.

It would be hard but it's a lovely idea," he reportedly said.

Watch this space for more info!

*TW*

Had an uber-busy day at 'the farm' - and ten murderous trips to & from Cardiff since the holidays ended, and I returned to the day job!

Traffic jams, flooding, torrential rain, more traffic jams, a runaway cow, accidents, bridge closures, a fallen tree, incompetent Cops & Highways Agency 'jobsworths' closing roads... you name it, it's happened every day since the end of the none-Summer hols... Frustrating, and at least unpleasant - my usual 55 minute journey often taking three hours, and tanks of diesel being wasted standing still in queues.

At least I've learned some new in-car swear words! It's amazing I've remained so cheerful! (!)

Seems a long way away from ferries, breathtaking scenery, Edinburgh, Shetland, Connect, porridge for breakfast & life in comfortable hotels.. but that's life, and that's how holidays go.

Been doing work most evenings, but got bored tonight, so watched an episode of Jonathan Creek on Dave, ate a pack of semi-frozen jumbo king prawns and am now watching the story of the female vicar who lost 28 stones after gastric bypass surgery! she's very, very boring.

It all happens on DMAX!!Off to Liverpool to see the new docks next weekend. Will take my riot gear - and a camera. Reminds me - must refresh my photo collection. Will do so over the next few days!

Have a groovy day!

Glasvegas rock.

Gordon Brown is toast.