Aug 14
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The other day I was playing Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow when I saw something move across the floor near the kitchen.
“Oh crap,” I thought, “Another cockroach.”
I got up and grabbed something to squash it with. But it wasn’t a cockroach—it was a tiny lizard. He was approximately floor colored; brown with light brown stripes. I carefully caught him in a spare perspex dish from the refrigerator. He turned out to have sucker feet, and crawled up the side of it. I let him out in the garden.
So, I think it’s time for an update on the local wildlife.
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Jul 17
Well, I am absolutely sick of the French Bleedin’ Revolution. Every night all the TV channels are showing still more crap about it. BBC 1 has “Carry on Robespierre” or some such, BBC2 has “Four Pseuds Talk About Revolution”, ITV has The Revolution Game (“Hard luck, peasant, but you do get to keep your Revolution Game Golden Guillotine”) and Channel 4 has some grainy black and white frog film followed by the Tour De Fucking France.