Labertino del Kevling

Look what I finally tracked down last night...

 

I'm at work...

 

My copy of Burnout Paradise should be being delivered today...

 

Mrs K is out...

 

 

 

KNICKERS.

 

 

Good grief. I can't believe I've not blogged since August.

Surely I must have something interesting to say by now?

No?

OK how about a mini-questionnaire thing.

Current obsessions: er, PS3. What you want more specifics? OK Unreal Tournament. Three.

Most frequently visited website: PlanetMGC.com (a sort of forum for "old" people, i.e.25+,who like their video computer game things)

Work status: Bored. And blocking most blog sites. Hence my hiatus

Favourite web-type-thing-of-the-moment: Twitter. Look - here I am look, and I can update it using my free text messages, which is ideal for a lazy person such as myself...

Bought myself this little beauty on Friday, with some birthday money from last week...

Before you ask... it's a gaming chair, called (oh-so-hilariously) the X-Rocker.

Wire it up to your telly, and you end up with stereo sound either side of your head, and a big fat subwoofer pumping bass into your lower back.

Honest, it's good!

I've already managed to successfully fall asleep in it watching telly, so it can't be all bad...

Back from a week in sunny Whitby, and what will probably turn out to be the only decent week of weather in the whole of 2007... couldn't believe our luck.

Had an ace time, stayed in an 18th century cottage on the harbour front, walking distance to shops, food, beach. Never used the car once.

There was me, Mrs Kevling (Jo), the two Kevling Juniors (Harriet and Jem), one of Mrs Kevling's friends (Alex) and her son (Asher, who is exactly between my two in terms of age), and everyone got on fine and had a great time. On the beach almost every day. Drinking and eating far more than is healthy.

The one downside?

Well, imagine you're on a beach,very much like this one:-

Harriet (8) was playing happily in the sea with two other girls she has just met, somewhere near the corner of that stone pier you can see on the right of the beach...

A tourist boat turning around in the harbour decided to head straight for the beach, so close that everyone thinks it's about to run aground, and people start running out of the water. It doesn't though, and it proceeds to turn around and head off into the sea.

Me, Jo and Alex all exchange comments about how turbulent that boat has left the water...

... and we suddenly see that Harriet has been dragged out of her depth by the current, and is struggling to keep above the water.

Without a second's thought, I drop everything and race into the water to save my little girl, only to realise as I reach her that I too am out of my depth and (slightly too late) remember that I'm not a good swimmer and can't tread water to save my life (quite literally)...

At this point, I somehow lose hold of my daughter, and am slowly getting dragged away from the pier and under the water as well. Apparently at this point, a crowd is watching on the beach, and the can all hear my daughter screaming "Daddy! Daddy!" at the top of her voice because I've disappeared underwater...

Some teenagers in wetsuits meanwhile have leapt in and tried to help Harriet, Jo (who thankfully IS a strong swimmer) has also run into the water, managed to grab Harriet and thrust her towards the others, and sort of managed to grab one of my flailing arms and swing me towards the pier.

An older guy has climbed down the ladder from the pier and helped Harriet , Jo and me up on to the pier... we all collapsed onto a bench and suddenly, almost as quickly as it happened, it was all over.

We were soaked through, cold, and shaking from fear (and my watch died), but so totally relieved that we were all OK, when it could have been a completely different outcome...

We went back to the beach for 10 minutes, but Harriet wanted to go straight home, so Alex and Asher stayed on the beach for a while longer with Jem. And on the way home, they bought Harriet a present...

So that's my holiday in a nutshell.

We put in a complaint to the local council about beach safety on Friday, so I'm hoping to hear something early next week. I'm not holding my breath though (oof).

The rest of our photos are here (there's a lot, mind) if anyone is interested...

My kids' school and nursery were closed today (due to an 'inset day' whatever they are), so we drove up to Manchester on the pouring rain to go to the "Doctor Who Up Close" exhibition of props and costumes from series 1 to 3 at the Museum of Science and Industry.

It's not quite as big as I was expecting, especially as it was billed as the biggest of the Doctor Who exhibitions that they've been running up and down the country. It's well worth a visit, but not necessarily worth a 4 hour round trip in the car on the wettest day of all time, but the kids thought it was ace! Still, dragged the kids round the rest of the (free) museum, to get our money's worth!

Took a few photies of the Doctor Who bits, so you can all see what's on offer, the best of which are displayed here. The battery ran out in my camera, so about 50% of these are taken with my phone...

As can be seen from my three posts in a single 15 minute period, despite not posting anything in the past three months, I'm still around.

Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, I have been lured to the dark side, and seem to be spending more time than I should on my shiny PS3.

It's really rather good, despite a slow start in the games department.

Current addicitions:
(1) MotorStorm
(2) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
(3) Checking eBay to see if the guy who sold me Resistance: Fall of Man from Canada two weeks ago has bother replying to mymessages about where the hell my game is
(4) PlanetMCG - a forum for "older" gamers (ahem)

Any ex-20Sixers out there have a PS3 and want to add me to their friends list? I'm kevling on there as well...

Tepid on the heels of my earlier post that none other than Ed Norton is playing David / Bruce / Nigel Banner in the new 'not quite a sequel' The Incredible Hulk, comes the news that Tim Roth will be the obligatory "baddie".

This cause a very good friend of mine to almost have an involuntary orgasm on the spot, as these are two of her three most fanciable actors of all time.

All she needs is Colin Farrell to pop up (phnarr) at some point and she'd be in heaven... 

Who's the most annoying person on TV?

Every sad muppet in the Big Brother house?
Dale Winton?
Patricia Hewitt?

Where do I begin?