We have a fridge in the garden. And one day it will be dealt with. It's not supposed to be there, it's not like a crazy outdoor beer fridge although that would be great obviously. No this is the clapped out old fridge which we put in the garden when we got the dishwasher. The fridge came with our house and was already broken when we moved in. And obviously I know it wouldn't take too long to deal with it.It shouldn't do.



As this picture shows I spent my weekend filming for the Sofa F1 review of the British Grand prix, oh and watching the grand prix and the qualifying, and the womans tennis final and Die Hard 4.0 at the cinema.

Lets just say that Katherine is very, very understanding. And I love her very much for that.

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But I had to share...



Found in a shopping precinct in Lee

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I had my dad, Ellen, my brother, and Nick over for Father's day. We drank beer and wine and watched the grand prix.

Here's my impression of the event...

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Here's a picture of me (in close up) enjoying myself earlier this afternoon. A very, very relaxing day...

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Nick wrote an article detailing what he felt was, perhaps, the greatest 5 minutes in cinema. They are actually the twelve minutes from near the end of Kill Bill - Part 1.

I wondered about the answer myself and immediately I came up with my choice (it has taken a moment or two for me to immediately post it, but that's another story).

I have chosen the last 10 minutes of Manhattan as my 5 minutes, they are a fantastic symbiosis of music and action without being quite as flashy as Kill Bill.

As a taster I have also included the first five minutes of Manhattan as well which are also great:

First Five Minutes:


If you haven't seen Manhattan before you probably shouldn't watch this as it is the very end of the movie. Run do not walk to your local DVD retailer and make a purchase!

Last 10 Minutes:

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So as I alluded to yesterday, I was up a mountain. This may have also made my spelling worse - it is very hard to get spell checkers up there - Katherine wouldn't come. And I was desperately short of battery supply on my phone so I didn't even have a chance to recheck myself! In the end I made it to the top and back - only my trousers didn't quite survive! Ripped to shreds by that harsh mountain rock. Anyway here's a picture of the peak:

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From a sign in Crystal Palace.

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(It's not a painting, it's not a photograph. So what is it? Is it an electronic drawing? Well it was created in Photoshop).

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As you may know lil' Lily Allen has cancelled the rest of her tour of America to get back in the studio and record her new album. You know you've really made it when the Evening Standard puts out a billboard in your honour. But clever Lily has chosen a subject close to the London paper's heart for her follow up.

Here it is:



It features such tracks as:

Yearning for 6 X earnings
My fake rate mate
Love in a sub let apartment

and the #1 smash single, Breaking your contract

Buy it now.

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Katherine has a great eye, for photos, she actually only has one eye that properly works but that's by the by I suppose in this situation. This photo that was taken in Verona has inspired at least one person to join Flickr is an example of exactly the kind of thing that she notices that others don't. Enjoy:



And go and see them all: Kat's Flickr page.

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M'learned colleague Adrian has written in his post, Cometh The Hour, about how the clocks going back have forced him to travel to work in the dark and miss out on the sunrise over the Thames. The one hour difference in time, neatly matches the one hour difference in arrival times at work (I start work approximately one hour after him, and finish work about one hour after he finishes). This has meant I have been able to steal his sunrise. Mwahahaha!



On a more general note, I really like this detail from within the above picture, I wonder why that other ship was there?

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I look pretty sated. If you want the same experience please visit the forever wonderful Aldos restaurant at 220 York Road, SW11 3SD (10 minutes from Clapham Junction). There isn't a London Eating page for it, and you have to be the restaurant owner to add one. I'll have to go back and convince Aldo to get himself some advertising I think. I've been more than 100 times probably so I feel I can safely recommend it.

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I had some friends over for the beginning of the Formula 1 season. We were going to have to stay up all night as the race is in Australia. And we all pretty much made it through except Rod.

Stew handily brought a great Formula 1 flag which set the scene rather nicely.

You can just make out Rod's knee and beer in the bottom corner of the shot.



A great fun evening that we all enjoyed. For the love of the sport but mainly to be amongst friends. Fantastic!

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It's very sad for poor old Nicholas Owen:



He was once, as he is now, a popular television newsreader. But was it ever thus?

No.

While in Croydon recently Katherine and I overheard the announcer on the tram service and noted at length that it sounded uncannily like Nicholas Owen's canned voice.

Almost instantly Katherine asked what his voice was doing in such a low rent establishment.

And actually instantly I came upon the most telling realisation of perhaps, but not actually, my whole lifetime: He's clearly been arrested in the illegal and frankly unhealthy trade of Gerbils for toupees and then forced as part of his probation to read out the tram announcements. I know - it seems so obvious now I've said it. But why do these, frankly, criminals continue in their trade?

Because Gerbils wear some of the finest toupees known to man. Hit it:

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On the train the other night I heard two people chatting and I couldn't help but earwig. The conversation was tumbling along until one of them said, "yeah but he's a friend of dromedaries" except he didn't obviously, he obviously said, "he's a friend of Dorothy's". He was calling someone gay and using a particularly antiquated way of doing it. It's a phrase that's fallen out of favour somewhat mainly because it sounds quite gay to say it I imagine. At any rate now we can bring it bang up to date with my new misheard version. Now I'm not homophobic, I can't understand why anyone's afraid of their own house, so I will pose for the requisite picture.



But what would the lesbian version be? Clearly it would have to be, "loving the llama".

As well as accusations of baldness and drug taking there have been repeated rumours that of late Britney has been loving the llama.

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I have been blog tagged by Adrian. This has proved tricky for somebody who has been blogging so much as I have but I've managed to dredge up a few things:


1 I was a muse for some of the most popular bands of all time. Although I was never mentioned in the sleeve notes, I have appeared in several pieces of album art:



Sergeant Peppers



Joshua Tree



And Nevermind



2 I'm a trained assassin. But because of my oath of professionalism I'm not allowed to talk about my successes only my failures.

Assassination of Hitler



Assassination of Judas



Assassination of Bono



There's still time Bono.


3 as you can tell from the list of marks (see it must be true I have all of the lingo down) I am incredibly old. Here's what I'd look like if I didn't shave at least once a century.



4 Because I've been alive so long and I've accumulated so much knowledge I have to use multiple brains. Here's a picture of my collection



5 see how one of the brains has a distinctive veil drawn over it? Well that's the brain we don't like to talk about. It was damaged in a bizarre gardening accident. And so we usually draw a distinct veil over it (although to be honest it often wears a Burka and forces us to refer to it as Jennifer).

Anyway here is a photo story of how the brain got damaged, "Damn you Bono!"



Sometimes I have recurring nightmares about that. Yeah I feel I'm stuck in a moment I can't get out of.

You may, if you're lucky, get some real 5 things at some point soon.

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I went to the design museum yesterday with Katherine to see the Alan Fletcher exhibition (no not the chap that plays Karl Kennedy on Neighbours he's here)

Afterwards we bought his book and then tried to slip into the design museums bag a Marks and Spencer bag of liquid gravy and a bar of chocolate and look what happened:



Now that's what I call bad design!

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I was trying to buy a packet of crisps* the other day, and in my change my shopkeeper gave me a Victoria Cross!




* Lake Geneva flavour obviously.

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New from Gamboling: Lake Geneva Crisps - for when you want crisps that taste exactly like that lake you know and love*



*May not actually taste like a lake or like crisps.

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Sometimes in the pub you find yourself creating a sitcom staring one of your friends. No? Maybe it's just us then. While out with Steve Mannion the other day a bunch of us created our vision for him of a sitcom / action adventure where Steve was a hard talking, fast shooting librarian who shot first and lent books later.

Anyway, here's the trailer I made for it:



"Book" tickets now?

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