The Black Hit of Space

New Year's Eve brings it's usual round of Monst going into work, gloom and mayhem on Casualty on Beeb 1 that I do my best to avoid, nostalgia TV on Beeb 2 with a look as Saturday Morning kids TV through the eyes of the Multicoloured Swap Shop (which I do look in on) and bugger all else I wanna watch right now. Really nothing I wanna watch right now so take the opportunity to label unlabelled tracks on the Notpod. Listen to some guilty pleasures as I do so (believe me some of them are more guilty than you will ever know - yes Shan if you read that you can play guessing games!) Mind you I ain't certain that listening to the Fun Boy Three is the best way to cheer yourself up. Gonna fetch some Brakspears Organic to sup. While I'm on a nostalgia kick I might as well drink a beer in exile! None of Ken's sobriety here! (That's not to disparage it either, I just don't do life without a beer, tried to give up alcohol one Lent and lasted three days dry - mind you going to the pub each day didn't help!)

Now I know what happened to Emu when Rod Hull finaly karked it playing TV Arial Mr Fix-It, Amy Winehouse turned the poor bugger into a dress. Didn't stop a fine performance of 'Monkey Man' though. Hootenanny as ever provides a nice mix of music and while some leaves me a little cold in the main it is good stuff.

The folks call me from Norway to wish me a happy Norwegian New Year, ever impatient as a nation they have the thing in advance of us, just like Christmas. They seem to be having better weather than is forecast here. The swine.....

Cal eventually falls a-kip. I just relax and sup beer. So anyway, Happy New Year One and All, hopefully it'll be a good one with lots more peace than the last one.