Archive for May, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: the scraping of the barrel

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Well the BBC review was right. It wasn’t very good, it was too long and I’m still not sure what happened.

Plus no one seemed to have any understanding of how to run a naval engagement. Any pirate worth his salt would have raked the ships before attempting a slugging match with broadsides. Yes - it was that bad that I was left considering the merits of naval tactics.

The only thing the dancing/marriage/fight scene at the end needed was Craig Revel Horwood turning up to give a score of 2 and description of heinous.

Shiver me timbers!

Technology

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Well I have managed to enable comments on this blog and thanks to Two Sheds I have sorted out a redirect to this page from the main page (so you don’t get all the ugly index).

Pastyland was warm and occasionally wet at the weekend. You will see that I am not the only blogger from the farm. Fat Bess has been updating her IT skills, helped by getting a computer in her room.

Me at work

A hidden gem

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Whilst sorting through some old e-mails I found this little gem. It was orginally part of ‘Winfield’s wall” and was created by Sharon Evans - daughter of the infamous Lynne.
Dwarfs

Thank you Malta and Ireland

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Well it looked like we were going to be bottom again, but thanks to our friends in Malta and Ireland we ended with 19 points. This amounted to our bloc vote - although we never repaid the compliment to Ireland (sorry).

Wogan: It’s been a wonderful evening, not musically of course….

Well he is off to Belgrade for next year. It is the first time Serbia took part as an independent state… so well done to them. Bad luck Scooch.

It is a shame that the Ukraine entry, who modelled himself on Christopher Biggins or Dame Edna, never made it to the top!
Ukraine entry

Nil points

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

So far we have yet to trouble the scorer…. again.

Wogan’s comment about the need for a western bloc vote become stronger and stronger. His astute view: ‘Where is NATO when you need them’,

Thank the Lord for Terry Wogan

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

The Eurovision Song Contest is still going strong, but sadly the songs arn’t up to much. As ever Sir Terry is the only reason to watch.

Classic comments so far:

As the French entry ends: ‘Gosh wasn’t that awful. I can’t believe that won any competition’.

As the Russian entry starts: “Here is the Russian entry, sung by 3 girls. I remember when Russian girls had moustaches and looked by Khrushchev’s mother”.

As I am heading off to Lithuania tomorrow I had better not be too hard on our European cousins!

The BBC website has some of the ‘great’ lyrics:

The Russian’s:
Oh, don’t call me funny bunny
I’ll blow your money, money
I’ll get you to my bad ass spinning for you.

Gotta tease you nasty guy
So take it don’t be shy
Put your cherry on my cake
And taste my cherry pie.

Well the voting is about to start so time for the real ‘fun’ to start.

Welcome to Pastydancer.com

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Welcome Onen hag oll (one and all) to my blog. I’m still fighting with the technology, so be prepared for a few problems - or is that opportunities?