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Saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last week. Actually it should have been the week before but for a slight misunderstanding on tickets (we wanted 9pm tickets and got 9am tickets, damn the British resistance to the consistent application of the 24 hour clock!).
For me, it is definitely the best Harry Potter movie, but even so, for non-readers of the books (yes I know that I’m probably the only person in the northern hemisphere who hasn’t read them, but I figure that I will read them to the baby anyway so why start now?), they aren’t that great films in their own right, because they rely on you having additional knowledge about the stories. (more…)

Attended a leaving do for work-mate Mark last night. This involved meeting at teh Bakers’ Arms for a couple of guinnesses, followed by a trip to the excellent Double Dragon restaurant in Blaby, for a slap up chinese; duck, ribs, yuk sung the lot, plus five or so pints of Sunlik, a chinese beer that, although purporting to be 5% must have a secret ingredient such as whisky in it. (more…)