Swedish army underpants are MIA

Swedish soldiers are so attached to their military-issue green camouflage underpants that 3,199 pairs of them went missing last year.
At around £1.50 a pair that’s a fair amount of money.
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worrying behaviour

The 2001 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Copenhagen and Aqua did a megamix with Safri Duo. I am listening to it despite it being Aqua because of the Safri Duo bit. Worrying? I think so…

Comment Spamming

I was resorting to banning IP addresses to prevent the comment spamming on the site but have now installed MT-Blacklist which is a cool plug in for MovableType

my restaurant rules

While I was in Sydney (yes I know I have mentioned the trip a few times) they had a dodgy reality TV show called My Restaurant Rules. Now Sam & Catherine were perhaps the most annoying couple. They kept whining on about wanting to learn Italian etc etc and nothing really about the restaurant. The location was perfect, so it couldn’t possibly fail. Practically opposite The Colombian and next to Wagamama. Shame then that it’s the first one to close 😉

Love is in the air

It’s so wrong on so many levels yet since Harbour Party, The club remix of Love is in the air (Milk & Sugar vs John Young) has been one of my favourite tracks on my iPod. It’s going to be my song of the summer I think.

train trauma

Today I was a tad late due to train trauma. Who said London had the best transport network in the world…
I usually get the train (with lots of colleagues) from Clapham Junction to Kensington Olympia at 09:08 but as the previous train (08:38) had been cancelled it was packed to capacity with people in with the driver ten minutes before it was scheduled to leave. So a few of us from work waited for the 09:25 sadly this though was cancelled. So the next train was due to leave at 09:38 and guess what… it was cancelled too!
Then the 10:03 was delayed so I was a late. Grrrrr
I did get to have a coffee and croissant and a long chat with some people from work I don’t see enough of though. So that was nice.

lion king

The first two minutes of The Lion King took my breath away. As soon as you realise you need to look all around the theatre, above you and behind you to take in the full effect it overwhelms the senses.

I was always going to like the score. I like my beat music. Safri Duo are one of my favourite bands. So the fact that the percussion and drums were above us on both sides in what were once boxes was amazing.

The costumes and masks that are really hats are great. Scar’s was cantilevered, so that it swang forward menacingly. The other animals are brilliant too with wheels, masks, extensions to body parts and traditional costumes all pulling together to make a great effect.

I hadn’t seen the movie so didn’t know the story but quickly realised it was a kids musical. Shame then that the prices were so steep. Tickets not discounted for kids and extortionate pricing of drinks and snacks spoiled what was otherwise a magical evening.

brighton

was really cool – and rich was really horny. Enough said I think.
Seriously though lots of beer, nice company and a great day out – almost like summer has satarted early!

Hubba Hubba

Gazza has a new obsession – only he stupidly broadcast it and now has competition. Now I’m not normally one to obsess (oh wait who am I kidding)…
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HELLO Steve :o) He stars in Latter Days – and I was trying to get to see it while I was in the US but Northern Virginia being very conservative and all…
There has been much hulabaloo around the film in the US, Utah particularly.
Looking forward to the DVD release so that we can use the freeze frame :o)

London Bloggers Revisited

I’m going through some of my code and favourites in order to tidy up for the planned redesign.