So we have arrived at the end of another year and so here come the lists in no particular order.
Films  5) The Girl who kicked the Hornet's nest. 4) Watchmen 3) Girl with the Dragon Tatoo 2) Avatar 1) Inception.

TV   6) 24 5) Dr Who 4) True Blood 3) Fringe 2) Spartacus 1) Wallander  with a nod to The Walking Dead which only had six episodes and of which more can be expected next year. What ever happened to the UK debut of Hawaii Five O remains to be seen. Praise also for the cliff hanger to Haven.

Music 7) Only Girl in the World - Rhianna  6) Alessandro - Lady Gaga 5) Well, Well Well - Duffy. 4) 7th Avenue - Bruce Springsteen 3) Slow - Rumer  2) Future Soul Song - Prince 1) Its not War - Manic Street Preachers.




Unfortunately Blues fell foul of two French refs in their games with Northampton Saints so there will be no European Trophies in 2011. So here is a picture of the boys in Marseille

Happy New year.

 

There have been several articles about people neglecting or abandonning their blogs. Surfice it to say after 6 months in which I have groomed the cat, played a lot of Blackout Rugby, watched in horror at the antics of the Con-Dem Coalition, and visited the Mold Food & Drink Festival, here we are . 

The subject this time is TV, this year has seen an 11th Doctor, the end of Lost (in a Church) the end of Ashes to Ashes (in a pub) the cancellation of Caprica (going too far back with the old prequel stuff) and some good stuff.
It is too early for me to comment on "the Walking Dead" but what we do have for your consideration are the following:

Fringe now into series 3 shown on Sky closely after it is shown on Fox and why not. The first epsiodes are split between our universe and an alt - universe from whence the surviving Peter Bishop hails.

True Blood - Shown on FX in the UK, Sex, Violence and Fangs and why not, however I have to ask am I the only one who finds the British born lead made of wood .

Spartacus - Shown in the UK on Bravo, home of the brave and Dog the Bounty Hunter. The first few episodes seemed to be like a bad comic, it became thanks to the leads, like Rome with added Sex & Violence and a warning to viewers at every add break.

Wallender - that's with a V, The original and the Best, okay not the original, the second swedish attempt but very very good all the same.

So with this blog comes some pictures and next time, hopefully next week we shall talk about sport in the meantime I have to watch some Zombies.

   

Dear All

It has been over a month and what have we seen the English based coalition government preparing to slash and burn, can anyone guess which bits are going to get s&b yes Labour bits and rather suprisingly LD bits as well. methinks Clegg needs to tell the Tories that he has a seat in Sheffield and that going home could be difficult in future and that if they cut the Public Sector in West Wales there might not be many Welsh LD's next time, whenever that is ? Presumably when the English right wing Tories decide that they have had enough of Clegg & Co.

Still on a lighter note Cardiff Blues beat Toulon in Marseille to win the Amlin. Stade Toulouse beat Biarittz in the H Cup final , this is France where alcohol publicite is banned.  The Ospreys won in Dub to win the Magners playoff . On the International Front, Scotland beat Argentina 2-0, England shared a series with Australia, Wales lost to Bokke B and are now facing up to the All Blacks down under its not pretty but its not 1988.

The LA Lakers beat Boston in 6 games winning the last two at the Staples. Kobe now has more rings than Shaq but still less than Michael Jordan. He is the same age as me you know give or take an hour.

The Football World Cup is taking place in South Africa, England have been wretched and meanwhile we the British licencse payers have been force fed Three Lions etc till we puke .

So next time we'll look at Politics and TV, the end of most things for the summer. I am forced to add Brothers & Sisters series 3 to space things out .

Keep the Faith.

 

Lakers' experience, crunch-time cool simply too much for Jazz - Frank Hughes - SI.com

The good news is that the Lakers swept the Jazz 4-0 and play Phoenix in the Nba West Final. The bad news is the next UK government will be an Axis of Weasels as the Liberals hook up with the Tories. The Labour Party lost over 90 seats and Plaid could not take Llanelli, Yns Mon, Aberconwy or Ceredigion. shame !!!! As for Sky News its starting to look like Fox both Kay Burley and Adam Boulton need to reconsider their careers. 

So there you have it if the Tories win your hamster's are toast !!!

V Diana is a hungry alien

So this time its looking at various books of note since the turn of the year.

I have recently completed Larsson's Millenium trilogy. These have all proved to be enjoyable reads. The tale of the second book is such that it will put "The Wiild Bunch" to shame and I await to see what Yellow Bird made of the second book when the film comes over to Britain in due course.

Currently I have gone back to "A team of Rivals " by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This is a detailed account of Lincoln's presidency and his initial election and how his rivals for the Republican Nomination came to form part of his cabinet. This goes beyond Obama rewarding Mrs Clinton but rewards for all the other candidates !!

We still have not been to the Cinema that many times but have instead re signed up to Lovefilm.com. This is one of several companies others such as Amazon, Play & Tesco's are available. You subscribe and they send you Dvd's through the post. So far we have seen Cinema first,

Avatar, Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Terminator iv, Sweeney Todd, Letters from Iwo Jima, the Boat that Rocked and thanks to a free film from Sky Box Office Julia & Julie.

Next blog up is Politics see you then .

So today is the second of May 2010 and the Football season is nearly over. All Chelsea have to do is not fall over to reclaim the title which they last won 4 years ago and bring to an end Utd's run of 3 championships on the bounce which ties them with the great Herbert Chapman's Huddersfield and Aresnal team's of the 1920's and 1930's, the Liverpool teams of the 1980's and of course earlier Utd teams. This Utd team have not been good enough to consign those other teams to history and they have not recovered from the loss of Ronaldo and Tevez. Coming 2nd will serve only to galvanize them on. In Rugby France won the Grand Slam as has happened after Lions tours 1998,2002 okay in 2006 it was only a title but you see where this is heading. The European finals have been decided Stade Tououse vs Biarittz. I saw Stade at Stockport in January. The Amlin final will be between Toulon and Cardiff Blues. You will recall on January 1st they were lucky to get DDIM !! in a 26-0 beating from the Ospreys. So here are some pictures, now I have some catching up to do so tomorrow is tv & Movies and the Big Pol so keep in touch.

Hywl

je      

so we have a new decade to think about with the end of the noughties.

For what it is worth are a few notes

TOP tv

1  24
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Dr Who

Top Music
1 Hey Ya - Out kast
2. Travelling soldier  - Dixie Chicks
3. Your love alone - Manic Street Preachers.

Top Film

1. Return of the King
2. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
3. Der Leider Das Anderer

I'm back from  Wales having seen the Blues humbled by the might of Ospreylia the final score line in Cymraeg was both brutal and truthful.

Gweilch  Daudeg Chwech  Gleison  DIM !!!!!!!

To be honest they did very well to get DIM !!

Here is a picture of Tom Shanklin in the Snow

More on 2009 next time

HNY !!