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.