Sunday 21 November 2010

Great Christmas Gift Idea

While driving this afternoon, I happened upon a roadside banner outside what I am hoping was a vets.

"20% OFF NEUTERING"

I think I know what my flatmate's getting in their stocking. Just next to the satsuma.

Sunday 14 November 2010

The other biscuit speaks...nonsense

Hello one and all, it's the silent, nearly always sleeping partner, the broken biscuit if you like from the tin of funny. Or the one that doesn't live in a lodge. I had fully intended on filming my masterpiece "The hunt for T'Pau" in the Dolphin Centre in Poole this week just gone, but I got a cold. It wouldn't have worked.

So instead, I will have to consider a new filming location. One place off my list is Bluewater. It seems to have been carved out of Dartford's weary anus. Not even the free parking and cheap petrol round the corner, or the two Nando's (which normally redeems most situations) made the trip to the 'Water any fun.

Perhaps T'Pau will turn up on I'm a Celebrity later in the series.

Sunday 7 November 2010

and a star to steer her by

Well hello from the Solent.

This week I’ve abandoned the Travelodge and am on a sailing course in Dorset. Soon I will know my port from my starboard, my keel from my ship’s cat and my arse from my elbow.
For the last two days we’ve been in the classroom, but soon we will be seeing what kind of weather La Manche can throw at us. Apparently it will be flinging some gale force winds and freezing temperatures. Oh goody! I may as well drown myself at home where I can at least use warm water.

Anyway, the rest of the course seems to be made up of police officers. It is an interesting position to find oneself in, being surrounded by the filth. I’ve always found police officers an unrewarding group of people to argue with, as the power balance and verbal reasoning skills is all skewed, but off duty they seem like normal human beings. No one has beaten a confession out of anyone else yet but it is early days. One of them even used to be in the armed response unit, which has to go down as the coolest job of anyone I’ve met. Imagine taking a gun to work! I said I longed to take a gun to work and he explained that the armed response unit exists to stop exactly that sort of thing from happening.

So far I have learned plotting things on graphs, tides, and the rules on crashing into each other. Tides are hard man. I think I might destroy the moon to make life easier. I was planning to just write my name on it with a giant laser, and it seems a shame not to do that. So I’ve decided to compromise: Write my name on the moon and leave it up there for a week, then destroy the moon. Kind of like when men grow beards and then shave them off in phases.