Modern Vespa

I had a thoroughly boring time at home. At least if you're ill at the weekend, you get the time off work.

pulling my hair out trying to write a review. gnnrrrr the worst part is that i really enjoyed the exhibition but for some reason i can't think of a damned thing to say about it.

You could do a Rimmer and write "I AM A FISH" two hundred times.

How about - I went to the exhibition and some stuff was good and the rest wasn't

Nice nibbles though.

I'm not helping very much am I ?

Bill X

cheers for all of your wonderful suggestions i'm just thinking of writing 'i really really really really really really really really really really really really really .... [800 times] .... liked it.'

failing that, it was an exhibition of conceptual art, maybe a conceptual review along the lines of a blank white page with 'insert your own review here'.

desperate and grasping at straws now

What a lovely meet. November, in between storms and shit, in bright sunshine and good food and ale.

I decided I couldn't do 9mph all the way home so went east on the A13 and NC, and being very observant of speed cameras managed to do about 60mph most of the time (apart from the idiocies around Muswell Hill).

Sorted Tom's 125 - new relay and (thanks CBS ) new plastics now means he can continue to ride without looking like the bike has had a chain-saw taken to it - and the lights now work.

Picked up a new (to me) telly tonight from Tom's future outlaws. It was meant to be Bryony's (Tom's fiancé's) old Sony, but when we unloaded it into my gaff it is a totally shagged out JVC. I blame her parents...

But it is far, far better than no TV. I had no idea how much I'd miss the box at certain times. Sad, I know.

i had a 50inch panasonic viera plasma, was the dogs danglies i tell thee, now the soon to be ex-wife watches it on her own.......

damn i miss that telly, but it was worth it

Sounds like a bargain.

Sorry I missed it! After my Northern friend left around lunchtime, I examined the options (pub? ride in the suddenly nice weather) and decided instead to spend the rest of the day loafing around playing computer games and watching Sarah Jane Adventures. (If it's aimed at the under-ten demographic, why the constant parade of hot older-man totty as guest stars, eh?)

Describe said older man totty...

I had a room to decorate i'm afraid.
In 2 weeks I will have a French lad staying with me for 6 months.
I'm working the next 2 weekends and so had to get it done.

1. Nigel Havers
2. That bloke who played George in Drop the Dead Donkey
3. Russ Abbot - not totty as such but I'm very fond of him

I'm sure there have been others. YMMV, obv.

Mmm, more of an Alan Rickman woman myself.

Though Nigel Havers has a surprising number of tattoos.

You and my mum both.

Other silver foxes of interest (to me): Jon Pertwee, John Le Mesurier, Leslie Nielsen. Premature grey/white hair and a nice voice get me every time.

Mmm, in that vein there is Ian Richardson.

Or George Saunders (that's going back a bit).

I had to google them both - Ian Richardson is rather yummy, don't go so much for beards.

I was also reminded of both Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne in Yes, Minister.

patrick stewart [*geriatric drool*]

If you want that then come to my office! It is stuffed with civil servants of a certain vintage. Though most of them are more Bernard than Humphrey.

Yes Minister is still 99.999999999999 per cent accurate, as far as I can see.

Because Mums need something to entertain them at they watch with their kids.

Be fair. That could apply to your gay dad too.

Booooooo - I got the train in so I could go out boozing with a friend this evening, and he's cancelled on me pleading too much work. What a waste of £6.20, not to mention the annoyance of a train journey

"Engage" Did he shoot you with his phazer set on stun?

i love a man that drinks 'tea, earl grey, hot' - in that order

don't forget he's bloody talented both on stage and on the big screen... hmmm... if I was a women I'd probably fancy him.

Hey, not being a man (or a lesbian) doesn't stop me from fancying Honor Blackman and Dame Judi Dench.

what about Helen Mirren?

Yes, there's no real logic to who you find attractive.

I also have a thing for dead eye psycho actors so love Christopher Walken. He can dance and cook!

Obv, but also Diana Rigg and Charlotte Rampling.

Rampling is the real deal.

I just love the smell of irony in the morning.......women letching on old men! (except it's evening).

There is a certain something that Helen Mirren has mind.....

Catherine Deneuve........

xavier bardem [*faint*] he's even in my age bracket.

and even though sean connery is starting to look a bit grand-dadly, he still gives me the vapours.

i want to get old in a helen mirren kind of way. anyone who can rock a red bikini at 63 without insecurity, photoshopping, or liposuction has my vote for woman of the year.

She does look bloody great for her age. 8)

she looks great for half her age

mmmmmmmmmm, you're probably right.

Well it seems as though Virgin Media don't know what classical music is. They gave me a choice of what I wanted to listen to while on hold pop, rock, indie, urban and classical. I choose classical and it's classical versions of pop songs wtf???

Call centers piss me off, I want to talk to someone who isn't 10,000 miles away and deal with my problem, not pass me onto a colleague

Alex, the last time I had to deal with Virgin Media it took me four attempts.
Indian call centers just don't cut it.
In the end I used the "I want to leave Virgin Media" option and spoke to a brummie chap who couldn't help enough.

Helen is like my ET4 great curves, almost vintage and a good... well I'm not sure, but Liz is a damn fun ride

You know those evenings when you have simply got to go out for a ride to clear the cobwebs out ?

Well tonight was one of them so I grabbed the Hornet got kitted up and rode up the M20 until it changed into the A20 at Swanley then picked up the South Circular and then jumped onto the A2 towards the O2 where I came off at North Greenwich to go and have a hot steaming beverage and a cookie at my favourite burger van.

Drank and ate for a while then rode home back down the length of the A2 to peel off the A229 for Maidstone.

The Rochester Bridge was a little interesting in the wind and it was just a little colder than I'd thought but hey it did the job.

I also felt like I'd neglected the Hornet recently as it hadn't been out of the garage for a month so it was also a crappy excuse to charge the battery up.

Bill X

I love going for a ride on a weekday evening - it feels like cheating somehow Not so keen when it's dark at four in the afternoon, mind.

Diana Rigg is improving with age - as is Joanna Lumley.

If we're finished with perving grandparents

....can anyone (Alice, I'm guessing this may be you or nobody) tell me whether it's worth a visit to Portmeirion if you're NOT a Prisoner fanatic? (Actually, I suppose that probably counts you out, doesn't it, Alice?)

I'm thinking of possible New Yr breaks. I fancy a couple of days in Liverpool for the kulcha, as well as a couple of days somewhere that we could combine with L'pool but which was nice and countryside-y. Any suggestions welcomed (we'll not be on scoots, so it doesn't matter whether there are great roads or not. Baby not allowed in topbox, apparently).

I haven't been, but I understand it's very pretty in its own right (it's a trip I keep meaning to make). Bit touristy, though, I imagine - and tourists in black blazers with white edging, to boot.

Mostly I want to go because apparently they sell glasses with 'YOU HAVE JUST BEEN POISONED' printed on the bottom. And because the sequel to Sue Limb's Up the Garden Path has a scene set there.

When I was staying in Merseyside in May, we spent a day noodling around the Peak District National Park, which is very countrysidey indeed (though quite busy what with the proximity of Manchester).

New Year might not be the ideal time for the Snake Pass, mind, however many wheels you have.