I listened to William Hague on the Today programme yesterday, being questioned by John Humphries on the alleged extra-judicial killing by Israel of the Hamas official in Dubai. Hague said he condemned all extra-judicial killings. Humphries asked if that meant that he condemned the extra-judicial killings by the USA carried …

On New Year's Eve we lit a sky lantern...

...and took it outside to be released.

It floated up into the air..

...and got stuck in a tree!

Roller disco fever hit Bath Pavilion last week.

Me concentrating hard:

Julia (left) who organized our group of me, Andrew and Laura (right)

Here we take part in a ritual to honour the gods of roller disco.

Trust me, your new one sucks more badness!

I like this profile! Especially the parts about quirky lodgers, fantastic nephews, and selling your car because of climate change. Lol@ your new one :p

I think I found your blog initially because we have some similar interests in literature - The Master and Margarita is my all time favorite book …

It's come to my attention that my profile text on blogger sucks bad. I've replaced it now, but for posterity's sake, here it is:

I like mowing the grass, reading and computer programming. OMG, this is sounding bad! I rent the rooms in my house out to quirky lodgers. I …

Good point about Twelve Angry Men. In fact, most police dramas are about the due process of law. Maybe I should have said *many* films only work because there's no effective state in their world (or people just fail to call the police).

"The only problem is that films about people dutifully following the correct bureaucratic procedures to ensure the due process of law are boring." - 12 Angry men, boring or exception that proves your rule?

I've always liked Nicole Kidman!

Yesterday was devoted to roast chestnuts, fondue and Dogville. A film I'd happily watch again. I always ask what the message or subtext of a film is. I've come to the conclusion that Dogville could only be made about a time and place where the police are corrupt, rather than …

I thought it was rubbish!