Rock my world

Well, that was exciting.

Those of you who are so bored that you've been reading these little missives will know that Tallulah and I went to Avebury last week on our annual use-up-our annual-leave break.

For those of you who don't know Avebury - it's a large stone circle and a world heritage site - see above pic:

Basically, imagine a bigger and more impressive version of Stonehenge that doesn't get the tourist trade because

a) it doesn't have the word 'stone' in the title

and

b) the Avebury builders couldn't be ars*d balancing rocks on top of one another like those flashy gits on Salisbury plain.

I've read that Stonehenge builders were real snobs and wouldn't give the Avebury builders the time of day. They would often sneer and look down on the Avebury builders because they wore unfashionable animal skins, ate the wrong kind of mud and used tools made out antlers from the wrong kind of deer.

I've read this mainly because I've just typed it.

Well, golly gosh. Now the Avebury chaps have got their own back because Avebury is an accessible and cherished part of it's own tiny community whereas Stonehenge is an isolated and inaccessible tourist trap with a mediocre gift shop. I bet the Stonehenge builders are turning in their funerary urns.

Before I get any messages from people who watch far too much 'Time Team' pointing out that Stonehenge and Avebury were built at different times and by people who didn't employ funerary urns I would draw your attention to the following points: Firstly - I don't care. Secondly - I really don't care. Thirdly - I really, really don't care.

(This has been an infomercial on the behalf of the blessedarethegeek "Stuff historical accuracy you beardie-weirdies!!!" campaign).

Anyway, Tallulah and I had a really great day in Avebury, hugging stones. Witness following pic of blessedarethegeek performing 80s pop star pose (with detail removed to protect my super identity):

Our day out in Avebury was followed by another day out in Bath and a visit to my family. The sky was blue and there was even an appearance by that beauteous blazing orb we know as the sun.

Oh yeah, Tallulah and I got engaged as well.

And on that tantalizing note, more soon...

Spring break - yeah!

Very excited today...

Firstly i'm excited because Tallulah and myself are off to Avebury tomorrow on what has become our annual using-up-of-annual-leave outing. Here's hoping that the sun shines (or at least makes an appearance) and the stones (which have stood the test of time for many thousands of years) don't fufill my nightmere scenario and choose this week to fall over, thus turning me into geek pizza.

Mmmmmm.....geek pizza.

Secondly i'm excited because the new Doctor Who teaser trailer has been released in the same week as I got free Doctor Who fridge magnets. Yes, it's only 14 seconds long (the trailer, not the magnets) but having spent the last few saturdays with only Primeval to console me I need some geeky goodness to look forward to.

Incidentally, for those of you who haven't seen it:

Stargate + Walking with Dinosaurs = Primeval

See the Who trailers here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/index.shtml

Hot Fuzzy Sunday

Just thought I'd post today to say that Tallulah and myself managed to catch 'Hot Fuzz' at the weekend and can heartily recommend it at the funniest film either of us have seen for a long time.

Sure, as the son of an Oxfordshire policeman the prospect of an action movie set in the Cotswolds was always going to inspire some sort of a reaction (good or bad) but the jokes came thick and fast and the comic detail was spot on - good to hear some proper Gloucestershire accents too!

Before seeing the film I had been rather worried by a mediocre review I'd read in a certain conservative tabloid (left behind, I might add, by a recent visitor to our household). Suffice to say, the newspaper in question probably reacted badly to the unsympathetic portrayal of Middle England reactionaries - which would seem to be this paper's target audience.

Now that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have brought us a Zombie movie in London (Shaun of the Dead) and an Action flick in Gloucestershire (Hot Fuzz) has anyone got any ideas what they should do next?

Anyone for a teenage High School musical coming-of-age romp set on Orkney?

Part II of the Geeks progress coming soon.