Back to Work

Went in to work after a few days of absence.  I hate it when nobody has noticed that I’ve been away.

Another TV Show Idea

A bunch of burgers and sausages tell stories about each other while cooking. Provisional title: “Gossip Grill”.

Anvil the Movie

What do you do if you’ve been trying to make it as a Rock God for thirty years and not made it yet?

Keep trying.

The story of Anvil is the kind of thing you wouldn’t make up, because nobody would believe you. The tale of two childhood friends that formed a band, headlined in Japan thirty years ago as the Heaviest of Heavy Metal and then, through bad luck and bad management, totally failed to go anywhere, is utterly implausible.

And yet it works, mainly due to the likeability of the two men behind the band. When we first meet them they are going about their day jobs, delivering school dinners and doing a bit of building work, planning a tour of Europe that could be their big break.  Except that it doesn’t really quite turn out like that.

So they come back again, and try with their thirteenth album to break through into the mainstream. And then? Well, you will have to get to the movie and see.

But I don’t think you will be disappointed.

Horizontal Rain and Degrees

Number one daughter got her degree today, so it was off to York to sample somebody else’s degree ceremony for a change. It was a great occasion and a good time was had by everyone although the experience was slightly marred by the cloudburst and he horizontal rain that we got as soon as we arrived which persisted until we left.

The ducks (there are lots of them about at York) looked like they were really enjoying the weather, but I think they were the only ones. After this lot my suit definitely has an appointment at the dry cleaners. In fact, anything with the word dry in it sounds good to me at the moment.

Graze at your Desk

Number one son is with us for a few days, which is nice. Today he is working from home. In this case our home. In these situations he has his lunch sent in, so today he had it delivered to our house. The lunch itself comes from http://www.graze.com/ who will post you a balanced box of nuts and fruits that is designed to keep you going through the day.

I must admit it looked rather nice, and it is supposed to provide 3 of your five portions of fruit too. Number one son looks quite well on it, and reckons that their delivery is very efficient and the system works well.

Me, I had an enormous cheese sandwich…