Sunday evening was always about the charts - in the old days, Sunday sandwiches of cold roast, Songs of Praise on the TV - and me off to my raido to listen to the the Top 40 countdown. I never recorded the Top 40 like some people claim, and I never pretended to be the DJ [...]

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So apart from running round in his long army coat for Torchwood - John Barrowman has done loads of acting, helping people out on ‘Who wants to Solve a  problem like Maria?’ and popping up on TV shows like ‘Never mind the Buzzcocks’ (23rd Nov - BBC).  I would never have guessed, watching him be Captain Jack that he [...]

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Pocky

Originally uploaded by mattr.

This great packaging belongs to a Japanese biscuit (covered in chocolate) - we call them Mikado from France, but the Japanese call them ‘Pocky’ - I love the colour of the box, not an immediate ‘buy me - I’m chocolate’ colour, but [...]

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So - whilst checking my blog stats, I can see that people have arrived here after searching for a picture of Lily Allens boobies…I’ve seen the picture - you can see it here - and frankly, its not really worth the effort of cranking up your favourite search engine and looking for ‘lly allen [...]

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Well I held you like a loverHappy hands, and your elbow in the appropriate placeAnd we ignored our others, happy plansFor that delicate look upon your faceOur bodies moved and hardenedHurting parts of your gardenwith no room for a pardonIn a place where no one knows what we have done
Do you come, Together ever with [...]

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ipod_dalek

Originally uploaded by wizard of olz.

Seeing as at least 66% of my household is currently obsessed with Doctor Who and the daleks, I smiled when I saw this over on Flickr…

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I wonder what the collective noun for a group of chavs is? A ‘burberry’ of chavs? A ‘nova’ of chavs? I think I’ll stick with ‘burberry’ - there was definately a critical mass of crop tops and giant hoop earrings at the Astoria last week as Lily Allen dropped in for the last night [...]

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