Messing With Time -

Woohoo! We get an extra second today! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second How will you spend yours? #leapsecond

We Should Be Told -

Does The Queen Cook?

You Learn Something New Every Day

With Ascot kicking off today, everyone is talking about fascinators. Now you can too:
http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/ladies+hats/5084,default,sc.html?gclid=CJmQwqLQ2bACFYQMfAodOx7Pzw&prefn1=Style&prefv1=Fascinators&fix&spcl&cm_mmc=Google+Adwords-_-Headwear-_-Headwear+-+Accessories+-+W+-+Fascinators-_-%2Bfascinators+%2Buk

Female Chinese Astronaut Docking

For the first time in history, male Chinese astronauts have docked with a female.
In orbit.

Royal Events are becoming Common

Yet another fly past over London today. Red Arrows, military aircraft, blah blah blah

Bloomsday in Bloomsbury

Thirty years ago today I was in Dublin celbrating James Joyce's Ulysses with the likes of Anthony Burgess.
This year I'll have to settle for a pint of Guiness in Bloomsbury.


What I remember from those days is that Finnegan's Wake is pretty much unreadable, but Ulysses is a fantastic book.

Good News about Libraries for a Change

Good fun visiting libraries for the Young Readers Birmingham festival today. Great to find England's second city is building a brand new central library. Personally I prefer the look of the old 70s monstrosity. But of course - it's never just about looks.

Anyone remember Boxing Helena, the movie that in the 90s became a byword for 'unbelievably bad'? Prometheus was worse!

Hollywood Hubris

OMG! Prometheus was so shockingly bad that tonight's cinema audience laughed. After all that hype, such a breathtakingly terrible script!