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1. The day started with something I could describe with the word "Bugger!", not that any anal sex was involved, more that I again slept in past the stage which would be sensible/amiable to go out on the bus. Part of me wonders if I don't want to go all that much, finding excuses and the like, but no. I have a genuine reason this time, in not being able to get to sleep till after two this morning, various itches and insomniac thoughts on my mind. Anyhow, I wrested a bit of positive from the day by virtue of doing a load of Christmas shopping online this morning.
2. Apprentice was selling a car. It was a bit of a clusterfuck, as a lot of this series seems to be. I'm a bit weary of the same old same old. Formulaic. Some of the women are proper daft bints arguing the fuck all the time - you wonder about the 'strong woman in business' thing meaning some lasses concentrate so much on not taking shit that they don't listen. Sajun left, which seemed a bit harsh - I'd have got rid of James for weak PMship, or Joanna for being a useless miserable cow.
3. I'm a bit annoyed, though it is partly my own fault, to find out that the Irvine Welsh book I bought t'other day is one I already have read. Yes, it was only three quid. Yes, it does say on the cover in small writing '..previously published as 'Porno'..' I admit. Yes, I was vaguely aware at some low level that the T2 Trainspotting film was based on the characters from the original book/film getting back together for some scam (which is the plot of 'Porno' IIRC). Still, it's made me feel slightly stupid and slightly cheated.
4. Pothinus matched Mark Antony in crime: They slew the noblest Romans of their time. The helpless victims they decapitated, An act of infamy with shame related. One head was Pompey's, who brought triumphs home, The other Cicero's, the voice of Rome.
5. Keith Barron has died, aged 83. Though of course he has been in many TV/film productions, I suppose I most recall him from sit-com 'Duty Free', which is inexorably mixed up and linked in my mind with the Harry Enfield 'Considerably Richer Than You' characters Stan and Pam Herbert, possibly intentionally on the part of Mr. Henry Richard Enfield.
6. I finished the Belinda Bauer novel I'd been reading, three out of five, decent plot and some very good characters and witty writing, but ultimately flawed and a bit longwinded and not up to the standard of her best two or three. Next I'm going to try George Orwell 'Down and Out in Paris and London' which I did try and read about twelve years ago.. but abandoned about a quarter of the way through. I'm older and probably may have different tastes n'that now.
7. It took a little time to burst in to life - goal-less at the break as it was - but Australia won the second leg of their World Cup play-off 3-1 in Sydney this morning. A bit of bad luck for the first with Jedinak's strike deflected past the keeper, but the Hondurans then self-destructed conceding two penalties (one harsh) both dispatched by the Socceroo captain to complete a hat-trick. A 94th minute scrappy consolation was no consolation.
8. I watched a Greg Davies stand-up this evening, after a confusing and OTT 'Man Down', and it was pretty fucking funny - though perhaps I've seen part of all of it before as much of it wasn't new to me. Maybe he's done bits on numerous panel shows, more likely I've seen it before in it's entirety. It's not just pie.
9. Henry William John Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford KCVO CB, was killed by an express train at Potters Bar railway station. Witnesses said he appeared to step in front of the approaching engine from the bottom of the slope at the end of the platform. His body was carried 50 yards down the track. A coroner's court was later told he had the nervous condition of catalepsy. The inquest jury – after considering several verdicts including suicide – returned a finding of death by misadventure.
10. When you fear a big melon. I hope the weather is better tomorrow and I hope I get the fuck up and out the fuck of bed in time to go the fuck out and fuck the.. there is no need for me to be swearing so much. I'm just revealing myself to be a dumb ignoramus.
