Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009 - 22:59

Librarian? Can you bake me a simnel cake? I know it's a bit early, but I don't want to get close to Easter and suddenly run out of flour and egss, do I?

1. Shut the fuckadoodle doo up, you massive Belgian twat. Tell the nice people about your shopping trip to town this morning, and stop being such a cackerbadger.

2. Town was a bit of a disappointment overall, I guess. I forced myself to pop into the centre 'cause I was up early enough to, and 'cause I wanted to make something of my day. But in the end I failed to get owt particularly inspiring for lunch, and I also was stymied in my attempts to get some more work trousers. Too much plain shit, and too much polyester crap. Not good.

3. Wolves Art Gallery had a crap exhibition of supposedly Pre-Raphaelite stuff in it, but half of it was bland landscapes, and only two or three of the remaining (portraiture) ones were worth seeing. Elsewise, Motion Disabled was an interesting idea, even though it quickly seemed that it was a clever idea that'd they had put a lot of effort into giving spurious extra context to.. in order to make the idea more lasting.

4. Got a couple of books second hand too - a Robert Harris one, and another as well.. a thriller. Mmm. Fifty pence a pop. Gosh. That's exciting. I think I'll say lots more exciting stuff in this paragraph, as it's WOW!

5. The fact it is Valentine's Day passed me by almost unnoticed. Actually 'unnoticed' is a lie - I knew about it, just didn't have any reason to celebrate it, or anyone to celebrate it with.

6. Here I am, locking horns with the stallion. Failing to hold my head up, I'll go back again. Pillar of Davidson, feeling too hard to go down. Cheaper than all souls he will walk upon. Deeper and deeper in love, so I hold my head up. Cheaper than all souls he will walk upon. Pillar of Davidson, feeling too hard to go down..

7. I do still have somewhat of a soft spot for Amanda Abbington, y'know. Despite some of the sitcom roles she's had in the last couple of years not showing her as well as sitcom roles she played five or more years back.

8. At work t'other day, some bloke driving a lorry accidentally dropped a skip on top of the picnic table in the car park. That is all :-)

9. I'm annoyed - I thought about a few things in the week that I wanted to comment on in this here diary, but I've since forgotten (brain cells killed by beer, methinks) hence it seems that my weekend diary is destined to be a bit dull. Oh well..

10. I have felt a bit lusty this last half of the week. Not in an actual "I need to have sex now!" way, but more in the way that I've found myself noticing attractive ladies on the train n'that, and have found myself less able to do the polite thing and not stare (or subtely stare via reflection in the carriage window) at 'em. I don't suppose it's a biggy.. just.. maybe there have been a few more pretty women about than average?

11. One thing I was idly pondering on was a few characteristics for my 'ideal' wife. Not the usual things like hair colour and nice tits and wanting her to like cooking and sex, but little funny things that it'd be cute if she knew. Like knowing about bacteria or the Koch Snowflake, or liking tuna mayo sarnies made with salad cream. Or stuff like that but better/funnier. Anyhow, I was just thinking about little stuff like that, cute crap. Indoodly. Have any of y'all got similar wierd 'it would be nice if my perfect other was..' type things?

12. In the FA Cup today at lunchtime, Swansea played some very very attractive flowing football, and were unlucky not to beat Fulham. It finished 1-1 (with an excellent Jason Scotland equaliser) and they'll replay in a week and a half.

13. It wasn't the only draw of the day - Blackburn got a late equaliser to draw 2-2 against Coventry, West Ham got a late equaliser to draw 1-1 against Middlesboro', and Sheff United drew 1-1 with Hull City too. Chelsea are the only team through so far, by virtue of their 3-1 win at Watford - they were actually one down with sixteen minutes to go, before Anelka bagged a hat-trick.

14. Annoyingly for M'boro n'all came in the fact that Portsmouth easily beat Man City 2-0 in the day's only top-division league game. Wolves lost again in the Championship and are being closed down by Reading and Birmingham.

15. Your football quiz question of the day is to name a pair of (internationally capped) footballers whose names are swapped round with each other - i.e. you could have John Terry and Terry John (if the latter of these two ever played international football). I can think of at least two very good ones, leave a message in the comments if you can think of any yourself.

16. Fucking Ronnie O'Cunting Sullivan in my cocking snooker xbox game keeps being utterly flukey. I've had to restart the bastard game three or four times, 'cause he keeps winning the first three frames of our semi-final without batting an eyelid (or letting me in).

17. If I tied my ankles together with my dressing gown cord, then hung myself upside down from the sturdy hook on my door, how long before I'd pass out? How long before I'd die?

18. If the mother goes to bed with you, in the bowels of the cathedral. Will you render her asunder with what she really needs? Or will you crash that beautiful silence with some talk about finding yourself in your mother's arms?

19. Scotland played a lot better than they did the previous week, and had quite a few 'almost' moments, but they ended up losing 22-13 to France.

20. Considering the doom and gloom over the England performance vrs Italy last week, and the plaudits and praise being handed to Wales, the later game in the Six Nations today was rather surprisingly even. I'm hesitant to point fingers at the referee, but some of the penalty punishment seemed a little inconsistant, and I thought there was a forward pass in the build up to Wales's try at the start of the second half. The final score was 23-15 to Wales.

LISTENING TO:- I put iTunes 'Genus' onto the job of sorting me a playlist based on my current/recent favourite Pearl Jam song ('Thumbing My Way'), which gave me a hundred tunes by such peeps as Alice In Chains, Live, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. Oddly it also included Beth Orton, Travis and Martha Wainwright. Some quality stuff on there, anyhow.