It’s half past nine on New Years Eve and everyone is out and about, drinking too much, and generally having a good time. Everyone, that is, except me. I’m stuck at work, twiddling my thumbs and watching Graham Norton’s end of year quiz on BBC1. Ahh, life on the front…

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Sometimes I wish I lived in the southern hemisphere.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not an overwhelming desire. I don’t lay awake at nights fantasising about water swirling the opposite way down the plughole or anything. But there has been a little antipodean niggle in the back of my brain…

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(Dan still can’t face blogging so I thought I’d let him off for one more night) I shouldn’t have said “Yes, I’ll take photos at your family party” when it was dark and rainy and I had to use flash I shouldn’t have watched War of the Worlds on Christmas…

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I’m a little late with my final advent entry. A combination of not being able to get off work early, Christmas parties, and present wrapping meant that blogging had to be shifted down the priorities list yesterday. Still, I couldn’t leave the series without doing: [Open the door / Close…

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[Open the door / Close the door] My Little Pony “I love you my little pony” The My little Pony cartoon series was based on the toys produced by Hasbro.  It was set in the mystical world of Ponyland where the three different types of ponies (Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies,…

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[Open the door / Close the door] GI Joe “G. I. Joe . . .  A Real American Hero  G. I. Joe is there” The chronically American among you might be surprised to discover that we did not have GI Joe in the UK. Instead we had the vastly superior…

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A periodic look at stuff I’ve been consuming recently. Album: Has Been – William Shatner William Shatner’s music career has a bad press. His 1968 album The Transformed Man is pretty widely mocked by all and sundry. I’ve never really heard much of that album aside from the odd excerpt…

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[Open the door / Close the door] Thundercats “Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats Ho!”   It’s the home stretch now, so it’s time to break out the big guns.  Thundercats ran for five seasons between 1985 and 1990.  The program followed the adventures of a band of refugees who have fled…

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[Open the door / Close the door] Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Night “Whispered secrets of a shattered age, I summon you: renew this sage!” Another one which I’m guessing will cause a few of you to go huh? Visionaries was set in a futuristic alternative dimension where technology had…

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