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Early? What it starts with an 8? Pfft. Moos I thought you had kids.

Hm it's a bit horses for courses. Wii seems the most family friendly one, but there are fewer decent games for it than there are for others. Can't comment on the Xbox as have never had one. PS2 was good, but I haven't yet tried a PS3. Depends how old your kids are, I suppose. I suppose what I'm saying is look at the games first and see which ones you'd like to play, and let that guide your choice of console.

It's not actually MS advising they switch, though. From Aunty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/ Shouldn't you switch to another browser until the patch come out? This has been the advice of a number of security firms - who of course are also touting their latest anti-virus products - but you won't be surprised to hear that Mr Curran [from Microsoft] disagrees. He told me he had recently seen a report which listed another browser as having the highest number of vulnerabilities. "it would not be advisable," he said,"to send people from one vulnerability (in Internet Explorer) to multiple vulnerabilities."

I reckon someone should breed a labradoodle and a cockapoo, then you'd get a cockadoodledoo.

Top stuff!

I reckon the Plough has to be a strong contender - perhaps for a summer one as the garden's nice and big.

Good point annaj. Have edited.

May have spotted her on the train this morning but it was far too packed to say hello. Likewise Bellenden Belle, somewhat closer but still lost in the crush.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Keef, for your viewing pleasure, singing about a minute's worth of Bon Jovi: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QwdMYyFuzyQ

Anyone else enjoying Wallander on the telly? I started half-watching the first one and then found myself getting sucked in. Tried to play it cool yesterday but was gripped within the first few minutes. Ol' Ken does a pretty good job playing the morose cop. Has anyone read the books? Are they any good?

Some terrible ones of me up there. Oh dear. Also, Keef, check yer PM.

http://www.b3ta.com/board/8986707

Sounds worth a visit just to find out what that means.

Avoid Blenheim at all costs. Truly awful. You're shepherded into groups and made to wait until the preceding group is sufficiently ahead of you. Then you're herded up some stairs and before you know it you're trapped in a godawful, one-way, stuffy, crappy audio-visual/animatronic hell. The Story of Blenheim, as badly told at (not to) groups of increasingly bewildered and frustrated tourists many of whom are foreign, speak little English, and evidently found it all baffling. In the end we made a run for it - but the only way out was to push on through the rooms ahead, past the other groups. By the time we got out we'd picked up about ten other escapees.

Let this serve as a timely warning for anyone planning on doing more than their fair share of crooning tonight: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7766666.stm

It's the grey matter that needs stimulation to keep up here. Though of course some would contend that us chaps think at the other end anyway, in which case those pills may do the trick.

Gosh, all this singles stuff is confusing. How does anyone keep up with it?

Arf!

I might iron my shirt first.

Probably not before 9.30, possibly even 10.00. Work xmas shindig beforehand.

Now may be the right time to mention cuil and its predeliction for quantum porn. Then again it may not. As you were.

Now that's something I'd like to see! edit for clarity: that = the half man half biscuit karaoke.

Is the Wishing Well the one on Bellenden Rd, near the corner with Chadwick Rd?

Mmm... goose. And spuds roasted in goosefat. That's another thing for which there's no real veggie alternative.

Which is precisely what made me go back to meat, after a brief period of trying out being veggie. So, so bored of the egg/cheese offerings, and not a fan of slimy roast peppers in a sarnie. There wasn't enough choice. By choice I mean choice that worked for me: easily accessible and affordable. Yes I probably could have got up earlier and made stuff myself/spent more money/walked further. But in the end I chose to eat meat rather than do that. Meh.