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good job I didn't put any washing on the line because as soon as I left home for work this morning the heavens just opened and there was even sleety snow at one point!

Monty Mini Marathon 1

The Meaning of Life
Not as bad as its rep suggests but not the best film either. It's more like ther series of old, but with a strange very dark humour running through it and some really weird songs that add to the feeling of the macare oh and Simon Jones (of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - the proper telly one) is in it too.

And Now For Something Completely Different
Purporting to be the best of the first two seasons it never the less misses out a few of my favourites but you can't have everything, although i wouldn't mind Eric Idle's guidance councellor having me...

The Holy Grail
Not a bad film that showcases the best team en semble and individually, it never the less feels sketch showy at times, but nothig nearly like the previous two films...

Hi-De-Hi Marathon - Part 2

The Beauty Queen Affair - The camp organises a sexist beauty pagent for the titilation of the men and one of the fathers tries to bribe Jeff to let his daughter win, it's all very sexist and not that funny at all.

The Partridge Season - Partridge gets pissed and sings some dirty songs...

The Day Of Reckoning - Fred thinks someone from his past is after him but it turns out to be some other criminal and Jeff tries to pay him off...

Charity Begins At Home - Ted tries to fleese the campers and Jeff finds out and puts the money to good use instead...

Hottest Blokes in Sci-Fi

a random list of the sexiest guys in science fiction tv & movies...

1. Fox Mulder (The X Files)
2. The Doctor (Doctor Who)
3. Steven Hart (Primeval)
4. Dr. Bashir (Deep Space 9)
5. Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
6. Lee 'Apollo' Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
7. Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
8. Captain Jack (Torchwood)
9. Cam Mitchell (Stargate)
10. Sawyer (Lost)

Hi-De-Hi Marathon - Part 1

Hey Diddle Diddle (pilot episode)
A good general introductory episode that sees the entertainment staff arrive at Maplin's holiday camp for the start of the season and it covers (in montage form) the first week. All the main cast and the minor cast are given some sort of introduction and we begin to see character dynamics that will play out for the rest of the series.

Desire In The Mickey Mouse Grotto
The plot revolves Ted having an affair with Kaffy Beale from EastEnders and then framing Jeff for it, there's much hilarity as the over protective parents try to control their hormone fuelled daughter and fail dramatically when she tries it on with Jeff!

Quantum of Solace

I managed to save £6 by pre-ordering it (which I put towards a sexy new nightie) the film features the sexy Daniel Craig in action once more as Bond, there's some cars, guns, explosions and even an aeroplane but all that's there just to fill in the time between closeups of Daniel looking handsome and sexy :)

Hot House - Part 1

just downloaded the MP3 (I'll get the full CD sometime next month) The story starts off pretty average, lots of stuff about the environment, rainforests etc to set the tone for the guest villain - the Krynoid. The Doctor & Lucie get mixed up with a nutty maniac, I'm looking forward to part 2 as the cliffhanger is interesting and potentially very nasty...

Orbis

The Doctor isn't really dead and Lucie's being played by the Headhunter. A small scale story after the epic finale wraps up a lot of things and sets up some new things. The Doctor is back, older, not wiser, grumpier and less pro-human than before. The Doctor & Lucie try to out play Headhunter but in doing so they do exactly what she wants them to do and in the end Orbis is destroyed, leaving the Doctor and Lucie together in the TARDIS again.

Sisters of the Flame & The Vengeance of Morbius

Sisters of the Flame
A rather mundane tale that opens up towards the end into something more interesting. There's a lot of running about in space, lots of shouting and arrogance, mainly from The Sheriff of Nottingham, I mean the time lord Straxus. Things finally start to look up when the Sisterhood sentance the Doctor & Lucie to death.

The Vengeance of Morbius
Things ramp up to a big finish, the Doctor & Lucie manage to escape their death sentance thanks to Straxus being used as a tissue donor to build a new Morbius. Morbius is rather less ranty than before, less psychotic too, sort of, although he comes across more as a weak imitation of John Simm's Master from the telly show.

Grand Theft Cosmos & The Zygon Who Fell To Earth

Grand Theft Cosmos
A rather witty story about stealing invaluable works of art, Headhunter & Karen make a return appearance from season 1 of the 8th Doctor audios and prove to be no match for the Doctor & Lucie.

The Zygon Who Fell To Earth
Lucie visits her Aunty Pat again (they met in season 1) luckily this time there's no glam rock involved, instead there's Zygons, although they're not as scary as the glam rock. It turns out Aunty Pat has married a Zygon (and is probably shagging him too, the tramp) and the other Zygons want their renegade leader back. There's a refernce or two to Terror of the Zygons and also (presumably) a reference to the BBV Zygon audio The Barnacled Baby or the BBC book Sting of the Zygons. This audio would take place sometime before the BBC book The Bodysnatchers which also features the Zygons, the 8th Doctor & Sam Jones).

MPs' expenses inquiry considered

A wide-ranging inquiry into MPs' expenses is being considered by the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life, the BBC has learned.

The investigation could also consider MPs' pay and their office expenditure. It comes as employment minister Tony McNulty says he did not break any rules by claiming an allowance for a home in London where his parents live. Mr McNulty himself said the rules should be looked into after claiming a second-home allowance for the property in his Harrow East constituency, in north-west London. His main home is eight miles away in Hammersmith, west London.

Earlier this year Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had to defend her actions after it emerged she had claimed about £116,000 in expenses for her family home in the West Midlands after declaring her sister's property in London - where she stayed four days a week - as her main residence.

Brave New Town & The Skull of Sobek

Brave New Town
Last year we had Daleks and Cybermen, this time it's Autons, and rather rubbish ones at that, or better ones, depending on your point of view. They're much more human seeming, acting just like real people instead of mobile fashion dummies. The rest of the plot makes no sense at all, a group of soldiers driving about shooting people and abducting them for no apparent reason seems to happen just for the sake of having something happen. The resolution is quite original but not that well done in the audio format.

The Skull of Sobek
It's like Punch and Judy without Punch and Judy, it's all about the crocodile and the Peter Pan references are so predictible as to be obselete. It's a rather boring little shouting match in the end, rather less well executed than Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Both warring sides need their heads banging together before being told to grown up and do something real with their lives. Lucie becoming a nun is quite funny though...

Nirvana to get vinyl re-release

The bulk of Nirvana's back catalogue is to be re-released on vinyl this year for the first time. The Seattle grunge band, led by the late Kurt Cobain, recorded just three albums between 1989-93 before Cobain killed himself in 1994. The first record to be released is their seminal album Nevermind, most famous for the hit single, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nirvana's Unplugged, recorded live for an MTV show, has also been re-mastered.

Does anyone still have a record player these days?