Suspect Device

Just watched that on Saturday as well. Very funny but lost it's way a bit at the end with the romantic interlude. Far better when it stuck to the gorefest and violence. 8/10 Also last night I watched Twin Town again. I'd forgotten how much I liked it. 8/10 as well.

Ice cold Peroni.

SLF - Alternative Ulster on 6 music. Sincerely hope that it doesn't get canned after the review. I'm pinning my hopes that it was a cunning marketing ploy by the Beeb to get more people listening. Where else can you hear decent music on the radio?

Taken 3/10. Liam Neeson is an ex CIA agent who's daughter gets kidnapped in Paris. He tracks down the guys within 96 hours. A pile of pish. Utter drivel of a script and pish poor acting but the violence gives it a 3, particularly when he drives the nails into a guy's knees to electicute/torture him. Don't watch it if you've got half a brain because you will keep asking questions which don't have answers.

I'll never use Arnold Clark ever again after my MOT last year. I'd had my car serviced every year by them but I needed new discs after the brakes seized on and I could only get to Kwik Fit so obviously Arnold Clark didn't know that I'd have them replaced. A couple of months later I took the car for it's MOt at Arnold Clark and they said that the discs were pitted and corroded so failed. Obviosuly I took the car back to Kwik Fit because they have a replacement guaranteebut they informed me there was nothing wrong with the brakes and should not have failed. FThey alos informed me that rust is not a reason to fail the MOT, only brake function was and there was nothign wrong with that. Arnold Clark wouldn't pass my car and Kwik Fit (rightly) wouldn't replace discs which had nothing wrong with them apart from a bit of surface rust. Looking back over my MOT's an service history I'd noticed that AC had done this a few times but I'd obviously not checked it myself because I trusted them to be honest.. Never again.

Congratulations. 6/7 would have been a lot better for my wife but I guess you can't choose these things. We were going for Eva for the girl's name but she'd have a cousin called Keeva and that would just cause confusion. Strangely, we have absolutely no plans either but I am making plans to make sure we don't have any other little accidents. And an update on my girls. Yesterday the wee one got out off neo natal and onto a normal ward with the wife. She was obviously over themoon to get the chance to bond properly with her now. Once whe's feeding properly and regularly, they will get home. Probably Sunday. So even after the horror story, everything is good now. Best of luck to anyone who's due soon.

Muttley. I'd have that name before Mark. Sounds like a dog with a hair lip and I don't like our manager either. It was the wife's choice. She got to choose if it was a girl and I got to choose if it was a boy. I guess I'll have to call the dog Rudy. (From the Specials song - It would have tickled me to giving the lad a row by saying stop your meesin around. I know that's a very strange reason to name your offspring but we also liked it better than any of the multitude of names we thoguht about. Thanks for all your messages of support.

For those of a nervous disposition or the soon to be parents for the first time, I've hidden the details in a spoiler. The good news is that Nesta (that's her name - it is Bob marley's middle name but also a Welsh name derived from Agnes which is Greek for lamb) is now breathing well and is really too well to be in the neo natal ward but has to be fed before she is allowed to leave. Box ticking at it's best. The wife is less well but only because of the amount of drugs she is getting making her very woosy, drifting in and out of sleep. Her blood pressure is down and her kidneys are back working because (as I was told) the placenta is out and her body is returning to normal. Supposedly the placenta is a bit of a villain of the piece but pretty necessary in the whole thing. Not the most pleasant of tales but with a happy ending.

Little Suspect Device arrived today at 12.52. I will spare you all the gory details about the labour but that was the most traumatic experience of my life. To say that her contractions started at 4 on Sunday morning and we arrived at the hospital at 12.30 on Monday morning doesn't really do justice to the story between the first signs and the eventual arrival. In case anybody is anxious about their first child's imminent arrival I will not expand on what I've already said. I just hope that your time is a lot less eventful.

She'll be glad to hear that. She's got ages yet.

Cheers. I'll tell her everything's normal. As you can see I'm not at the football. I'm a bloody jinx anyway.

She has a question now. Should the kid be kicking in between the contractions? She assumed it would stop.

Why narrow that down to labouring women? I wasn't going to go and to be honest, I'm quite happy to have a good excuse not to. Could be in for a long wait though.

OK, the wife's 8 days over her due date the contractions started at 4 this morning and they're about every 10 minutes apart give or take. Phoned the midwife who reckoned it could be ages yet. Question is, should I go to the St. Johnstone game or watch it on thetelly. She reckons I should go, I reckon I should stay here.

100+ pages. It'll take me months to get through all this. can somebody summarise it all for me. The wife's due on April 2nd and I might need some pointers. For instance is it true that you're not allowed to tie them up while you go out to the pub anymore? (Mother and baby together of course)

Why does eating asparagus make your pish smell funny?

Pasta with Prawns & Feta Cheese 220g raw large prawns 150g Feta cheese 6 spring onions 25g butter small bunch fresh chives 150g penne pasta Cook the pasta for 10-12 minutes (It'll be on the packet) While that's cooking, melt the butter in a small pan, stir in the onions and cook for 1 minute. Chuck in the prawns and cook until they turn pink. A few minutes only. Cut the feta cheese into cubes and stir into the prawns/onions. Stick in a lot of pepper and the chopped chives and toss the stuff together to make sure everything's coated and slightly melting. Then drain the pasta and serve the pasta topped with the prawns.

I am Legend 6/10 Pretty ropey CGI work and a shite script but a good performance from Will Smith who is not exactly my favourite actor. Can't see the attraction in him but he's big box office even though he's done some shite films. Just a remake of the Omega man but it passed an hour and a half this morning while i'm at home suffering with the cold. Not the worst film you'll ever see.

Notting Hill 1/10 Watched this last night simply because the wife had never seen it and decided it was time that she did. What a complete and utter pile of shite. I'd been told by my mate that it was ok for achick flick but how wrong can he be? Hugh fucking Grant always acts as Hugh fuckingn Grant. Drippy, shy English twat persona just makes you want to kick 7 shades of shite out of him. The script was vomit inducing and the plot was written by a 12 year old girl. utter utter bollocks. I only gave it one because of Rhys Ifans (sp?) I've had more enjoyable root canal work than this shit. And the wife hated it as well. Gran Torino 6/10 Clint eastwood always acts as Clint Eastwood but that's a good thing in this movie. The movie was a bit simplistic in it's portayla of a racist converting to a nice guy by gettign to know the people he rejects out of hand to begin with but you can forgive the schmaltz that you know you're goign to get in a hollowood (sic) movie. The script made me cring in bits "You know, you're alright" he sayd to the Hmong girl after he saves her from some black hoodlums. Oh dear. Still, I've seen worse movies.

Albaroots - Blighty

The Stranglers in February.

The Wave 8/10 Excellent German movie about a teacher taking a class for a project week on the subject of autocracy to show them how a dictatorship can grow. Obviously would not have had the same impact if it was made in another country.

Love and Death 8/10. Oh for the days whe Woody Allen was funny like this. OK it had some poor jokes in it but most of it is hilarious. (Or mabe I was just stoned enough - who knows?) I'll forgive him for his pervy ways if he just makes another film like this or Sleeper.

Stiff Little Fingers at the Warehouse 15th October. Should be good they always are. After that I've got no gigs planned.