Weekend +1

The weekend proper was good. Friday was City of Heroes, then Saturday consisted of a trip to Bolton, whereupon I purchased some light-coloured trews and enjoyed various motion-picture treats, being the Prisoner of Azkaban (good) au cinéma and The Frightners (also good) chez ghostbritain.

( Azkaban spoilers )

The Frightners: Jolly good stuff. Should be required viewing for anyone playing an Orpheus campaign.

I also watched a lot of Family Guy, for the first time. It's a blindingly good show, its only real flaws being an over-fondness of cutaways (it interrupts the flow a little when you cut away to another adventure or TV show every other sentence) and that godawful opening sequence. Well, at least it's not overly long.

F'nar.

Sunday was frittered away with some Charmed, during which Nook let me play on his lapDungeon Siege on his borrowed laptop. Lots of fun. Then I went home and played some City of Heroes, at some point during which bacony came home all sated and exhausted and went straight to bed. Apparently, Grand Design was good.

Then yesterday I went down to Birmingham for my Gran's funeral. It was nice, if sad. The whole family made it - children, grandchildren, grandchildren's spouses and Significant Others. Which was nice because the family was her only real interest. It was always her greatest source of pleasure and pride that we all get on with one another, right down to the cousins-in-law - Mike's wife Kate sits down and chats with his cousin Neil's wife Mandy as though they were old school friends. Our family isn't plagued by feuds or long-standing disagreements or any of that rubbish, and it's largely because of Gran. She didn't have any hobbies or pastimes (aside from the occasional book), instead spending her days on the phone to her children, catching up on everyone's lives and passing on news from the others. I suspect from now on we will all be much less informed about our cousins.

Some more things

Oh, rang ntl: - did I mention? They agreed to disconnect everything at the end of the month, but since I have to give them 30 days notice I'll still be a customer until the 12th of next month - this has the benefit that if I happen to get a house within that time (unlikely) I won't have to pay any kind of connection fee. If we eventually wind up in an area of Bolton that's supported by digital ntl, I'll probably consider going with them again - I like getting TV, phone and broadband from the same people. It's all one line rental.

I am discouraged by the house market. It's not necessarily that houses are too expensive right now - there seem to be a bundle around the Great Lever area that I could afford (£30-40K). It's just that when these houses come on the market, people are leaping on them. I suspect they aren't even bothering to view, they're just snapping them up on the basis that no matter how much work they need they're bound to make their cash back in a year or two. I may have to wait for the market to settle down (not in price, just speed) before buying. Which means I may have to start looking for rented accomodation.

In other news, Therm is now level 14 and can fly that is all.

I am so very pure

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No real surprises there ... though I would say my hobby gives me an unnatural skew towards topless encounters.

Not unnatural. Let's say uncommon.