So much for modern technology and government initiatives. The Inland Revenue still haven’t got their self-assesment service back on line yet. It has to be completed by the end of September and I just want to get on with it, so I’ve resorted to calling them up and asking them to send me a form through. It *really* grates to have to resort to filling in paper based forms, but I want to get it out of the way before the wedding build-up really starts. Bah!
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Steff sent this through to me yesterday, I thought it was really entertaining, especially as it came from the newspaper of my home town. 🙂
It was a beautiful day here in Brighton yesterday and so we went for a walk along the beach and decided to stop for a pint. This was a really splendid way of spending time, drinking beer watching the wakeboarders fall in the sea. We then headed off to the BNM social at the Sussex Arts Club (quite an interesting place) and met some new people, and met up with some we’d met before. As we were heading home, we discovered that one of the restaurants in Boyce’s Street is being refitted to become a Nando’s and is due to open in August. This is great news for us as Nando’s is one of the only things we’ve missed about not being in Ealing. Nando’s is great takeaway food, tasty chicken with a peri peri sauce. Yummmm! Roll on August.
And I’ve just spotted this, a page dedicated to chants about Rio Ferdinand, to the tune of Duran Duran’s Rio. My current favourite is “His name is Rio and he plays for Engerland, Oh Rio, Rio take us to the promised land.”
The world cup is really starting to get interesting now. 4 of the teams to make it to the quarter finals are not who I expected to see there. So, the quarters line up as:
There are some interesting and hard to call matches there.
Someone posted me the link for a game yesterday, it’s addicitive… very addicitive. You have been warned!
One of the BNM list members, Tristan, is doing the London to Brighton bike ride on. It’s in aid of the British Heart Foundation, so go on, sponsor him.
We watched a new tv programme – Six Feet Under – last night (it was actually shown on Monday, but I’d got Tivo to record it because the Guardian had said it was a must watch). It was really entertaining and very well put together (Alan Ball, producer of American Beauty, is one of the directors). From the show’s website
“One of the most acclaimed shows of the 2001 season, SIX FEET UNDER takes a darkly comic look at the Fishers, a dysfunctional family who own and operate an independent funeral home in Los Angeles. Patriarch Nathaniel Fisher is no longer living (except in the hearts and visions of his family). So his wife Ruth, sons Nate and David, and daughter Claire are left to cope with the routine and not-so-routine aspects of life in the grief-management business.“.
As usual, we’re trailing behind the Americans here, and they’re already on to Season 2.
One of the more annoying things was that I recognised the actress who plays Brenda Chenowith – Rachel Griffiths, but couldn’t remember where I knew her from. Thanks to her biography I find that it’s because she was Rhonda in Muriel’s Wedding (which incidently is one of our favourite films).
The next episode is showing on Channel 4 on Monday evening at 11.10pm – set the video for it.
Yay! Go England. We go through to the next round and the Nigerians and the Argentines go home. For a 0-0 draw it was pretty tense stuff at times but, we’re through and we play Denmark at lunchtime on Saturday.
I watched it at home and then cycled in to work to start the rest of my day – flexi time is a wonderful thing 🙂
Well done Ireland. We’ve just been listening to the Ireland v Saudi Arabia game on Radio 5 in the office and it’s been a great game to listen to. I’m planning on watching the highlights on the tv later tonight. Now, I just want England to do the same tomorrow and get through to the second round as well. Come on England.