Codebreakers...

Playlist
Laura Pausini - E Ritorno da Ti
ProjeKct 1 – Jazz Café Suite
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Grand Funk Railroad – Thirty Years of Funk
Tool – 10,000 Days
The Church – The Blurred Crusade
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal
Schnittke - Requiem
Various – Downloads from Destination Out

I left home today on a mission...

I believed we had the episodes from last year’s “Dr Who” series where the Cybermen and Daleks slugged it out – and, on the strength of this belief, we’d arranged for nephew Ollie to come by Crispycat Towers to watch it...

He’s now a big Dr Who fan, even though he’s only seen three episodes (but never Daleks or Cybermen)....

He is 6....

Anyway, last night we checked the video in question only to find that we didn’t have the second of the two parts – i.e. we had virtually 10 seconds of “Dalek action”...

And so it was that I made my way to HMV and Virgin in search of the relevant DVD...

Suffice to say they didn’t have it but I did manage to get 2 discs from the Christopher Eccleston series which featured Dalek stories....

I also picked up this 10CD set of various Requiems for £13...



Tasty....

Back home, Ollie had been “delivered” by his mum, Jane who, along with niece Kitty, visited for around an hour or so before I arrived back to find Jane and Kitty gone and Anne making Spaghetti Bolognese while Ollie read his much-leafed Dr Who comics....

We had our spaghetti (with ice cream and grapes/banana for pudding) then settled down to watch the two-parter which ends with Eccleston morphing into the current Doctor, David Tennant – great stuff!

Around 8.30, Anne took Ollie back home...

Later, as we watched “Ugly Betty” and “Law & Order : Criminal Intent”, we realised how hellish it must be to have children full-time. They absolutely demand your attention 100% and your own life must surely just go out the window...

No concentrating on telly...

No recording on the computer without interruptions...

No heat of the moment trips to Manchester to see The Blue Nile...

No holidays without the kids...

We realised we are blessed by having been able to break the encoding of all animals to procreate and lose their lives to their young...

Having said all that though, we enjoyed having Ollie round (for a couple of hours) and will do it again soon – after all, there’s more Dr Who to watch...

I ended the evening by downloading the latest tracks from the great Destination Out website – check it out – crazy jazz!!

Highlight of the Day : Dr Who fest with wee Ollie...