life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

Okay, I expect that I'm really behind the fair on this, but is anyone else vastly amused that Kylie's releasing a song called 'Two Hearts' just before she appears on Doctor Who?

Last night Naomi hadn't any assignments to do for the near future, so she made brownies and we watched Pride and Prejudice, which is the only DVD we have up here. It was fun.

I have just cleaned the kitchen, hoovered the house except for other people's bedroom, mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors, and ironed my grey jacket, and consequently am in a glow of conscious virtue.

I thought that I would do the meme about ten pieces of personal Doctor Who canon, but I'm too tired to think of them and anyway everyone else has probably thought of all the good ones already.

I have no objection to giving £10 to breast cancer, but I do object to being forced to pay it as a forfeit if I don't wear pink tomorrow. When I give £10 to charity, I'll gift aid it, you idiots, and guess what, the charity will end up with £12 instead.

And also, thanks for telling us the day before, when a) my pink tshirt is at my parents' house and b) Marks and Spencer have stopped selling the 47 varieties of pink tshirt that they were selling whenever I wanted a blue one.

One of the pleasures of the Marlow novels for a lot of people seems to be finding that they share the characters' tastes in reading. There's only one book that I can remember that I read because I'd seen it mentioned—Brat Farrar, and I can see exactly why it's Ginty's sort of book; the situation is one she might romance about, and then there are the horses.

But when I first read the series, I was pleased to see that not only did Nicola read Hornblower and Lord Peter Wimsey, and dislike Dickens, all of which I also did, but that she and Lawrie had read The Flight of the Heron. I'd never met anyone, fictional or otherwise, who had also read it, apart from my mother and sister, and I was amazed (I still haven't met anyone else who's heard of it). Has anyone else had the same experience?

I'm sure by now everyone has seen this.

( DW Specials possible spoilers )

I have bought a computer.

The filming for Half Blood Prince started this week. I'm quite looking forward to the film coming out—the films seem more important now there are no more books to come (woes).

I hope they got Daniel Radcliffe to grow his hair out a bit. Harry doesn't have tidy hair! Plus, DR has grown up looking like my cousin Connor, especially with short hair and without the Harry glasses. Just when he got to the age to be fanciable too :-P

Making Money is alleged to be out in the UK tomorrow, huzzah. I love Moist von Lipwig and I'm really looking forward to another book about him and friends.

NTL or BT?

Wires, wireless or no network?

Goodness, life is hard when one is incapable of making up one's mind.

Last week I went to see OotP before it went out of the cinema. It was obviously very compressed from the book-I always finds it helps to think of the films as a very complex animated .gif illustrating the books, that way I can think of the Quidditch and Ron and Hermione being prefects and chocolate in the library all happening off the edge of the page.

My brothers aid that Umbridge wasn't ugly enough, but I didn't mind that. I thought that the contrast between her being all pink and fluffy and so evil was  very effective. I especially liked the 6 spoons of sugar in her tea. And I love cats, but those kittens on the plates were the creepiest-looking felines.

I missed the Quidditch-well, I missed seeing Ron play Quidditch. I hope that  they include it in HBP, which they might, as there's less plot in that book, and I'm sure they'd want to use the trio kids as much as they can seeing that there are so many flashbacks to young Tom.

I don't like the twins much, although they aren't as bad in the films. It's rather sad to see them doing everything together, knowing that in a couple of years Fred will be dead.

I was watching PS on video a few days ago, and I noticed the contrast between the films. Not just Tiny Squeaky Trio, but the early films are brighter. I thought it was just the change in the uniforms, but it's the whole colour palate, I think. At this rate DH will be all in assorted shades of black.

I always like the little bits around the edges that show there's a school, and a world, happening beyond the Trio, like the kids having music going in the Gryffindor common room, and the Fudge banner in the Ministry, and the boy and girl kissing that Umbridge blasts apart. Also, nice forshadowing for the snogfest in HBP.

Who is this Nigel bloke? I seem to remember him vaguely from GoF; is he a replacement for Dennis Creevey? BTW, I wonder was JKR thinking of Dennis instead of Colin when she killed him off in DH. Colin was sixth year and had to be either 17 or within two months of it, and was hardly likely to be still a midget.