Happy New Year and All That

Hootenanny.... Rab C. .... Monst at work calls, world explodes with fireworks, Bicycle Kid and the Lemmings piss me off .... usual start to a new year then. Resolutions.... bah! Still feel rough following traditional Christmas cold.

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.