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Part of my last job was changing news copy so sentences didn't start with "and", then lambasting the people who did it. Now I break the same rule every day. Hypocrisy.

In short: you should do whatever you like. Fuck the rules.

As for those shelves, I like the two colours together. Remember the main feature is the contents, not the shelves.

I'm also pining for black pudding.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder healthier

It does. I'm not really craving anything too badly but I do occasionally want something like black pudding. Interestingly, it's always something fattening.

I'm about two stone lighter than when I arrived in Canada in the spring. Healthy food is cheaper here and, unlike in Scotland, there's a wider range of takeaway on offer. I'm finding it very easy to eat a bit better.

Also I'm usually too busy to eat lunch. 

Back on topic, I looooove those Linda McCartney sausages. Great on toast and quick to cook in a microwave.

You DO know what that stuff is made of.... Don't you?  ( need a spewing smillie here)

Is it spew?

Yum. Delicious spew.

Late to the party... I finally saw this. I loved every second of it.

I laughed a lot and I thought the fight scenes were great. I'm also just the right age to enjoy the soundtrack far, far too much. I may even buy it.

As for the end, I don't get why people didn't like it. I thought it worked very well, with lots of twisted irony and genre references. In fact, it's exactly how I wanted it to end.

- Trout

I love a king rib but those chips are shite. Sorry.

I don't really mind that. I'm just not crazy about beans. I'd rather have some mushrooms.

Tomato ketchup on a fried egg sandwich is, however, delicious.

I'm also pining for black pudding.

Beans? No.

But there should be haggis.

Embarked on a full dissection of my son's laptop yesterday, which has been out of commission since last spring.  I originally built this late 2012 out of a lovely salvaged Sony Vaio body, various parts and a shiny 1TB HDD, and intended it as a Christmas present.  Unfortunately getting it working properly gave me a lot of grief and took a lot of time, and while it positively sang as a dual-boot machine when actually finished, it also crashed and burned after only a few months, and weeks of frantic fiddling improved nothing.  In the spirit of the new Year, and armed with a better multi-meter, a gallon of surgical spirit and a heat-gun, I took the whole thing back to its components and deep beneath one heatsink I found the likely culprit.  Some intensive swabbing, a blob of thermal paste, and an anxious reassembly, and then in the middle of the lightning flashes of an actual no-kidding thunderstorm at 2am.... see, Igor, it lives again!

I think I understood two words of that. How is it that someone with your skills isn't earning £100,000 a year as the world's cleverest man?

I'm seriously impressed.

Actually, Owen, this is a different project. I must get to that one, too.

In fact, it's so cool that I can't quite believe I'm being supported in it. I'm going to shut up before I jinx it. 

That warms the heart. Well done the DD family!

Ah, Colin. We may have concerns about some of the choices you make but we support your right to choose.

Now that's nice.
Too many comics in this world lead dark, frustrated existences out of sight...
They need light, a yellowed comic is a happy comic 

Hush! Where not gonna tell him this on the grounds it gives me and Trouty a base to invade the "man cave" on ground of crimes against the comic population!

DO NOT REVEAL THE PLAN, FOOL.

The Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine version of Dan Dare is well worth a look.

One of my all time favourites and quite brilliant. Grateful to an Irish man for making me more aware of what it is to be British than I can remember!

Oh yes. This one is a beaut. I also second the motion for Scarlet Traces.

Also, Metalzoic shouldn't be too expensive. I bought the DC trade on eBay last year and I don't remember being shocked by the price.

The colouring's kind of horrible, though.

To do creative things. Well on the way already. An incredibly cool project looks likely.