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I am glad the holidays are over. They certainly didn't live up to my expectations but I did get to drink some cheap champagne( it was really only bubbly wine I think) NYE and saw the fireworks- I still remember them. The dog was so calm and we were right in the middle of them. The dog has now been given to a nice man who is a hunter and has several hunting grounds. Oskar said that with his baby on the way he wouldn't be able to cope with the dog...

I didn’t go out expecting to meet Jimmy Reid, after all he’s been dead for over a year, maybe longer. It was a cold but sunny day and I walked down the canal path into Dalmuir. My mind was on the next thing that I’d write and I’d already decided on a title ‘God Made Me Ugly for a Reason,’ an autobiographical look at my early upbringing. I’d already begun jotting down memories. I went into William Hills to put a football line on. I’m still not...

Okay everybody let's see how long I can keep this up. Like the title said I'm 14 and I'm in high school. Now biggest thing about my life right now and I hate it the most that is DRAMA! Why is drama needed for our lives to be okay. I'd love to meet on person who is drama free if so change places with me PLEASE!!!!!!!! Mt best friend flipped out on me because of her stupid boyfriend, Drama. Kids can't mind their own business, why u ask, well...

Written and directed by David Michod and loosely based on the Melbourne based Pettingill family and the 1988 Walsh Street shooting of police officers. In a brilliant opening scene 17 year old Joshua ‘J’ Cody (James Frechville) phones for an ambulance whilst watching the histrionics of contestants on a quiz show as they try to win more money. In a flat voice he answers questions. The camera pans back. The emergency relates to his mother, who is...

I promised my wife that i would put some new kitchen cupboards up before Christmas. I let her down, time just seemed to fly be and I never got round to it. So I promised once again to get it done between Christmas and New Year. Down to B&Q early on Saturday morning and bought 2 large wall units and one small one and 5 doors. Assembled them quite easily and put them on the wall on Sunday morning. I was really pleased with myself, the job had...

Here I am -still alone. I would like to drink some champagne tonight but don't have any and don't really see the point. It's only going to be me and then Oskar's dog. He will be good company but I am tired of my own company- Christmas, my birthday and now New Year's Eve. I wouldn't mind going to a party though. I lead such a dull life. But that is my own choice. Mostly I keep to myself. I'm too self-conscious around people- never really got rid...

Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Ridley Scott’s adaption Bladerunner set in a Los Angeles of 2019 follows a similar storyline. Deckhard (Harrison Ford) a former cop is told he must retire six replicants that have escaped from the Tyrell Corporation. Retire is a euphemism for kill. Killing replicants is not an offence because a machine or android cannot be killed. Replicants are property in the same way...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Channel 4 27th, 28th, 29th December, produced by Yellow Bird, directed by Niels Arden Oplev. Based on Stieg Larrson’s posthumous Millennium series and staring Noomi Rapace as the eponymously named Girl (Lisbeth Salander) and Michael Nyqvist (as Mikael Blomkvist ,) publisher of the Swedish political magazine Millennium, who in the first scene is...

Hope everyone is okay and not suffering from this dreaded virus. had it a couple of weeks ago and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to one and all. For me it's a quiet Christmas day by our standards just six of us. We've had up to twenty for dinner in previous years. Boxing day will be busy as just about everyone comes to us. Just glad the West Ham game has been called off otherwise i would have had to...

Oh I am enjoying this. Being alone Christmas eve. I can do exactly what I please, when I please and how. I don't know why I am so happy when in fact I should be sad being alone on this special evening when so many are making an effort to be happy together with family. I feel strangely at peace and happy. As though going against the flow is giving me pleasure. I think that may be the reason. That I am doing something so few are doing- by being...