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By stephen, July 2, 2010 10:01 am

A few days ago I raced into our living-room to check on a wailing Sawyer. I found him sat on the floor, clearly upset…

‘Ice daddy.’

‘What?’

‘Ice in my nose daddy.’

‘What?’

‘Got ice in my nose.’

‘Ice? How did you get ice in your nose?’

‘I put it in there.’

‘Ice? But where did you get the ice from?’

‘There…’

And there scattered all over the floor was the remnants of a t-light candle. The wax, or ice in Sawyer’s case, was everywhere. He’d been picking away at the wax and a chunk of which he’d apparently rammed up his nose I’m pretty sure that whatever he’d put up there had melted by the time I’d finished poking around, but I’m also fairly sure he won’t be doing that particular stunt again!!! In much the same way as Sawyer’s much older & now rather more sensible brother learnt not to ram mint sprigs up his nose (to stop the dog getting them!!!) when he was younger!!! It doesn’t bode well really

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By stephen, March 28, 2010 10:33 am

Up (2009)

Charming, sad, very funny, beautiful to look at and very very sweet indeed. After the 12th viewing however, this film is now beginning to loose it’s appeal slightly This film has pretty much been on continuous play ever since Sawyer got it just over a week ago!!!

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By stephen, March 23, 2010 1:14 am

We’re now 8 episodes into the final season of Lost, so thought it about time to share my views once more…

I’ll get the shocking bit out of the way first… I’ve recently been getting a little cheesed off with Lost And this is coming from one of the most die-hard Losties around!!! Season 5 was simply awesome and I think we’ve all been expecting even greater things from the final outing. Sadly for me, the great bits have been few and far between so far. But thankfully things have started to pick up. The last 2 weeks especially.

So, what do we now know that we didn’t since my last Lost post…

Richard Alpert – Can’t kill himself. A gift from Jacob apparently and one that Richard is far from happy with. There’s just no pleasing some people

• Richard (A) is thoroughly pissed off with the now dead Jacob and has spent most of this season marching through the jungle trying to die.
• Richard (B) there has been absolutely no mention of. I’m assuming he was still on the Island when the bomb went off? If he wasn’t then where is he?

Sawyer – Still angst ridden and still keeping himself to himself.

• Sawyer (A) has been taken under the wing of dead Locke and has been shown his name on the wall of a cave. Sawyer is a ‘candidate’ apparently and was chosen to come to the island. Candidate or not, Sawyer (A) seems intend only on leaving and is currently pitting Widmore & dead Locke against one another to clear the way for his escape. Why do we all know that it won’t work!!!
• Sawyer (B) is now a Cop and is still hunting down the conman (Sawyer) who ruined his family. This alternate reality storyline was mostly mundane, but one thing has been bugging me about Sawyer… He was visited by Jacob after the death of his parents. I’m not sure if there’s any mention of an exact year, but it’s certainly well before the original plane crash and I’m guessing it’s even before the bomb went off in 1977. Does this mean that both Sawyers have been visited by Jacob?

Jack – Still my least favourite character and still gets the most air-time

• Jack (A) after seeing his name etched into a compass and after seeing his house in a lighthouse mirror, now thinks he’s Mister Indestructible… I bloody hope not
• Jack (B) is moping about after his son and still hasn’t found his dead father. I’ve no idea why, but I really think Jack (B) is going to have pretty major things to play as this season evolves. On the whole the alternate reality storylines have gone nowhere and have even seemed pretty pointless, but that’s not really in keeping with Lost and I’m sure reality (B) will really kick off some time soon.

And what don’t we know…

• What’s with all the dead people?
• How did Widmore find the Island?
• What’s locked away in his sub?
• Why isn’t Kate a candidate?
• What’s with dead Locke’s mother & back-story?
• And when are the Apollo Bars coming back?

There is of course much more. So much more. But that’s just my two penneth worth…

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By stephen, February 22, 2010 4:04 pm

07:30 – British Gas ring to say that our boiler part hasn’t arrived yet, so our planned early morning visit won’t be happening.

09:00 – Our next door neighbour, who is moving house today, calls round to ask a favour… Could we please look after a ‘bit’ of her stuff until later today, as she has to have her house empty? I couldn’t really say no, so despite the fact that we’ve got 3 viewings ourselves today and despite the fact that we’ve been desperately trying to keep our house all clean & uncluttered, I took possession of a small poof/sofa (now hidden in our wardrobe!!!), a fish-tank, a huge box of random bits, a steam press (now under our bed) and two 4′ square mirrors

10:30 – A school rang me to say that all of my work that is planned to start tomorrow has been delayed. Not sure for how long, but am hugely peed off about this

12:00 – Boiler man called to say that he was on his way.

12:40 – Sawyer pooed his pants and I was hosing him down as someone was banging on our door. Still no idea who???

13:50 – Boiler man arrived… Just over an hour until our first viewing arrives

14:10 – Sawyer decides to fill the laundry basket with grapes and drag it around the house, while I’m being shown some boiler bit

14:25 – Boiler man leaves and while I’m saying cheerio Sawyer decides to climb up onto the kitchen worktop and ‘fiddle’ with our newly repaired boiler

14:40 – Di turns up for a worky catchup meeting/chat. Half an hour now until our first viewing!!! While we’re doing our worky stuff Sawyer decides to ‘make a cuppa tea daddy‘ whilst stood on a chair next to the kitchen sink

15:00 – Mess all tidied away and our viewings are imminent. Sawyer is now upstairs doing ‘something’. I don’t really want to know what!!!

I’m stressed and I hardly ever say that

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By stephen, January 21, 2010 10:35 pm

It’s been a while since I’ve had a good old rant on here. And before you all leap in and accuse me of being bone idle for getting the shopping delivered in the first place, I must point out that our charmingly cute little boy…

… turns into a manic, foaming at the mouth, hyperactive lunatic (very hard to imagine, I know!!!) if we get him anywhere near a supermarket It’s as if we’ve taken him to the biggest, grandest playground he’s ever seen. Sawyer has an absolute blast once inside. We don’t!!!

Which is why Home Delivery is our preferred method of weekly shop. And as we’re on a bit of an economy drive at the moment, ASDA is our supermarket of choice. It’s cheap and as the saying goes, ‘you get what you pay for.’ We have had a few mishaps in the past with ASDA, but you kind of expect a few every once in a while. Recently however ASDA have been truly and shockingly shite. Our weekly order of Xmas shopping simply failed to turn up and then when it did a few days later we were charged nearly £70 for some fancy sparkly wine that should have been on offer. We complained, ASDA failed to budge, we gave them their fancy pants wine back and the driver gave us a complimentary box of mince pies for our trouble

And then there was this week, which was quite frankly a little bizarre… For probably the first time in ages our shopping did actually arrive within the 2 hour slot we’d selected. The driver dumped our bags onto our doorstep in record time and then disappeared before I’d even picked half of them up. No goodbyes or any awkward little electronic pad to sign; she was off and that was that. Some time later we discovered that a lot of our dairy products hadn’t been delivered.  About 12 items in all, so I rang to complain (it doesn’t take much. I do like a good moan )

‘Hi. We’ve just had our shopping delivered and loads of items are missing.‘

‘Oh I’m sorry. What are the product codes?‘

I then read through our order and gave the woman all of the relevant codes.

‘I’m afraid we won’t be able to re-deliver those items, but I can give you a voucher for a free delivery the next time you order from us.‘

‘I’m guessing that we won’t want to order from ASDA again, so we’ll just have our money back thank-you.‘

‘Oh ok. Is that all?‘

‘Well I guess so. Our shopping would’ve been nice, but I guess we’ll have to go out and buy that from somewhere else now.‘

‘Yes I am sorry. I’ll give you a voucher anyway.‘

We then re-ordered most of what had been missing from lovely Sainsburys and got butter & milk from the local shop…

Last night we had a knock on the door. An ASDA delivery man was stood on our doorstep with bags of shopping.

‘Hi. It’s your shopping.‘

‘We were told it couldn’t be re-delivered. We’ve had a refund and re-ordered the stuff.‘

‘Well it’s your shopping, you may as well have it.‘

‘We didn’t order that much milk!!!‘

‘Well you may as well have it.‘

So last night we had over 14 pints of milk rammed into our fridge We can’t eat the cereals fast enough at the moment!!!