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Acquiring a switch for the headlights has proven more difficult than I thought.  The local (Bolton) breaker's yard didn't have Accords in, and Honda apparently guard their parts industry well - all the spare parts shops said to go to a licensed Honda dealership, even the guy whose advert said "All makes and models".  The Honda dealer, on the hand, said they don't do spare parts on the weekend, so I should ring back tomorrow, whereupon they can put in an order.  So the earliest I can get the damn lever is Tuesday (if I leave work early and pop in on the way to pkgem's, or something), unless I can find somewhere in Yorkshire that does them.  Or something.

I may have to miss Geek on Tusday - I'm not sure about driving on the motorway in the dark.

Qui à coupé la fromage?

Just watched the last episode of Freakazoid! - a very fitting end to the show.  They may or may not have known it would be the last ever, but I imagine every time you come to the end of a season you have half an eye on whether or not you'll get renewed, so you have three options: carry on as normal, create a cliff-hanger (to increase chance of renewal), or go for a big blow-out finale.  Freakazoid! went for the latter.

Watching the entire series through, it's struck me how many people agreed to lend their voices.  People you wouldn't normally expect to find on an animated children's show, like Jack Valenti, and they'd usually let the writers poke plenty of fun at themselves.  It must have been a great show to work on - I can imagine them throwing around crazy ideas that wouldn't even get considered on a normal show, like a team-up with TV carpenter Norm Abram, and then rather than taking a breath and coming up with something more reasonable they'd just follow it through, give them a call, drop Spielberg's name... I doubt we'll see its like again.

Books

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The sixth book written, you're nevertheless the first chronologically.  You not only describe the creation of Narnia and tell where the White Witch, the lampost and the wardrobe came from, you get to bounce between worlds with the help of Uncle Andrew's weird magic rings.


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