You are allowed to enjoy this…

I’ve seen some crap on eBay, but this has to take the prize.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2913&item=7150895746&rd=1

I have always been a big fan of the comedy series “The League of Gentlemen” ever since it broke through onto our screens back in the heady days of 1999. There’s a new movie coming out called “The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse” and it concerns the characters of Royston Vasey managing to breakthrough into the “real world”. I remain optimistic, but it is difficult for TV shows to make the big screen leap. Anyway, here’s the brand spanking new trailer:

Stupid internet. So you press all the buttons and you expect domain names to be renewed and updated, but your web provider doesn’t actually tell you that your credit card details are your OLD credit card details. They don’t warn you that your credit card has expired and so you wake up to find that your website is no longer there. Well it is, it’s just no-one can see it because the domains have not been automatically renewed. This is supposed to be an automatic service, but without a credit card warning system in place it is useless. 🙁
In the post: The Ultimate Matrix DVD box-set via Amazon at £27. Nice spangly packaging. OK – so some of the films are rubbish but there’s enough extra stuff here to keep a sci-fi fan occupied for months. I absolutely love DVD boxsets.
Courtesy of The Missus: the new ELP 2-DVD set. Should be interesting.

Talking of Tortoise, I found this rather snazzy video to one of their tunes from their website:

Well that’s my tax return filed and sent off via the good old Internet. I feel exhausted now. Time for a lie down… 🙂
In the post: tickets to the Tortoise gig at the RFH.

Today, getting in tune with my accounts. A letter from Mr Taxman reminds me that he wants to know what I am up to, so I begin the yearly slog of figuring out all the numbers. I do it all myself and use the online self-assessment doo-hickey. It’s all rather clever. My problem is that I am a number dyslexic, so I have to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuble, quadruple check… 🙂
Luckily, being a freelance writer and not having any outgoings or materials or staff means that I have a relatively easy time of submitting my tax return. I just tell them how much I’ve earnt and how much I want deducted as spendables (this doesn’t come to much: envelopes, sundries, etc)
Loaf of the Day:

It’s a standard white loaf…slightly blurred because my hands were shaking in delight at the wonder of this vision of bread-based loveliness.
My current commission is all about Internet privacy and just how easy it is to find people on the Internet. As part of my research, I managed to find the address of my father (though he might have already moved on). So I got to thinking that if he is so easy to find, then I must be doubly, triply, quadriply easy to find. So I got to thinking that if my half-sister knows where I am, maybe she doesn’t get in touch because she doesn’t want to? Or maybe I am just thinking aloud too much, eh? Basically, in this day and age, if you have an internet connection, you are pretty easy to find…it’s just whether or not anyone wants to find you…
For example, my house looks like this from the air:

The Washington Post is reporting that Father Dougal Maguire of Craggy Island is the outside runner to be the next Pope:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26353-2005Apr4.html
It could be just what the Vatican needs! 😉