Wood for trees...

Playlist
Pet Shop Boys – Pop Art
ELO – Balance of Power
ELO – Secret Messages
Jason Falkner - Bliss Descending
Motorhead – Overkill
Motorhead – Bomber
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
The Damned – Stiff Singles 1976-77
Jewel – Goodbye Alice In Wonderland

Up early and round to the doctor’s with Anne driving...

I am prescribed more painkillers but advise I intend to resume my position with “The Man” on Monday. The doc counsels more time at home but I really need to get back out there...

The pain is less than it was last year though the sleepiness seems a lot worse...

Back home and two CDs arrive from e-bay - ELO’s third and second last albums. While each have their moments, the group was past its best by now methinks – but I am a bit of a completist in these matters and the search is on now for a reasonably priced copy of the final album, “Zoom”...

After lunch we watched taped episodes of “Ugly Betty” and “Heroes”, the latter being the best episode by far thus far – and we’re seventeen episodes in apparently...

Around 2, Jane arrived with Ollie & Kitty, as Ollie wanted to watch a Dr Who special which he has on DVD but hasn’t seen at home yet. It’s the one with the big Spider Empress thingy and Catherine Tait...

After his mum and sister departed for the shops, we started watching. Suffice to say Ollie had a good laugh at the snoring sounds emanating from the direction of his tired old uncle David in the corner...

After the film we took a look at our pictures from the visit to the Dr Who exhibition in July – Ollie was there last week with his mum...

I gave him a box set of ten Dr Who paperback novels which may prove a little hard going for him but I know he’ll enjoy them...

He is Dr Who mad!!

Here is a happy wee boy with his tired, old, ill, unshaven uncle...



After Anne took Ollie home and returned, we watched Corrie then I loaded some recent purchases into the small MP3 players I have for bedtime listening...

I realised I really, really like Motorhead!!



Then it was:-

The brilliant “Have I Got News For You”...

The even more brilliant “Armstrong & Miller” – best sketch of the night was the two RAF airmen in WWII having a conversation in posh tones using present day chav dialogue...

The ever-brilliant “My Name is Earl”...

During the commercial break, Meg the Black Cat came through the cat-flap, stopping three quarters of the way up the stairs rather than, as usual, coming into the living room to see us...

Suspicious of this, Anne went to see why Meg was avoiding us...

The answer came in the shape of a rather large, energetic but frightened mouse...

In the panic which followed Anne's discovery, Meg let the mouse drop and it leaped back down to the front door, followed swiftly by the black would-be killing machine...

Once again, the trusty mouse-removing pint glass was brought into play and, after Meg had been unceremoniously dumped into the living room, one large, bewildered mouse was taken to a safe place near Crispycat Towers and released into the night...

After the second half of Earl, we watched the frankly not that great “Dear Green Place” – the latest from the “Chewing the Fat” crew...

And, finally, the frankly excruciating “Jonathon Ross” – think of the money the BBC could save for its factual programmes if it didn’t have to pay this man £17m...

What were they thinking?

Highlight of the Day : Saving yet another mouse...