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Taken from an IM session with the Brummie Pseudo-Salesman;

BPS: "toooo much money for his own good"
Yours truly: "not if he keeps spending it on non-refundable deposits for overpriced not very popular Japanese sports cars."

Have I mentioned how good Francis Dunnery is lately? No. Well he is. Go and buy one of his records. This week preferably.

The 70’s throwback and I are going to see him live in September. Its in Wolverhampton, but the journey will be worth it. Even if it is on a school night.

Hot news on the internet today. Someone has come out and said that the information super highway is rubbish. Well, I like it.

So there.

Its Monday morning and I’m back at work. After a weekend of work. Luckily though, thanks to an enlightened employer and t’internet I didn’t have to come in to the office.

I spent most of the weekend in the far south, picking up SWMBO from her dog sitting gig. It wasn’t all happy families and rambles though. After his family’s triumphant return from holiday the international man of tax and I found ourselves in the village pub, where a few soothing ales were consumed.

This, of course, improved my culinary skills enough that I managed a virtuoso performance on the barbecue to produce some quite nice, not too burnt, meat for dinner.

Which was only a precursor to another day wrestling with data files.

Vote in the duck’s worst ever movie poll. My suggestion of Nutty Professor II didn’t make it past the first round because not enough people supported it – *cough*. Luckily you, my happy readers, can restore my faith in you by pushing our next least favourite picture – Titanic – to the top of the list. Just click on this link, select your movie of choice from the drop down list and press the submit vote button.

Now, far be it from me to suggest that the democratic process can be subverted, but no lesser authority than Scary himself has suggested that multiple votes won’t necessarily be excluded. Which means that if you were to press the back button in your browser after voting and "accidentally" press the vote button again it may benefit the cause. If you do nothing else this weekend, vote Crap-tanic.

I thank you.

"which essentially meant you were about growing your hair and drinking lager."

Well, one out of two isn’t bad. It has recently come to my attention (via the back pages of this months Q magazine) that one of my favourite bands are touring in December.

Which is funny, because the 70’s throwback and I went to their farewell concert back in 1994. Seeing as it’s The Wonder Stuff though, I’ll forgive them.In celebration I’ve now got "Construction for the Modern Idiot" on the stereo. It’s grebo-tastic.

As for the gig(s), I shan’t be at the front, moshing with the hardcore fans, I’ll be at the back – drinking lager. Anyone fancy joining me?

This week I shall mostly be disliking "Bachelorette".

The word, people, is maiden.

Due to bad editing I put something wholely inappropriate here. If you want to read it then you’ll have to go to the other blog.

Alternatively, pictures of kittens!

Never mind the hows, the whys, the do you mind if I don’ts, but you can now get to this page via the exciting address of http://www.andrew-todd.org/.

There, hasn’t that made your day.

This morning saw the second edition of "mate versus mate, state versus state, date versus date". Its not quite the same reading as watching, but even if it was on live (which I doubt) I was at work from 11 to 12 this morning.

There is hope though, with a bit of luck those smashers at the ABC will have archived Roy and H.G.’s call of the event, one of the sporting year’s highlights.

<update>I couldn’t find the audio from the masters of the microphone, but the game was shown live on Sky Sports, and repeated at a reasonable time this evening for me to view. Sweet </update>