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Today I went out to attend the London Perl Workshop. The lecture theatre held many people in many various cheesey-tech t-shirts, men with full blown beards and long Pantene glossy hair, little guys who haven’t reached 20 yet sporting huge afro hairdos and matching afro beards (to make up for lack of experience?), and of course ‘the weirdo’ who sat behind me, who thought it funny to clamp down my hair into the crevices of his desk. How nice.
Today the Stig and I went to the Natural History Museum to see the many fossilised things they had. Giant Armadillos with inches thick skull and body shell, dinosaur skeletons towered above us, fossilised sea urchins and corals and a giant tree bark, which on counting the tree rings had been around for 1300 years, that is, until a hundred years ago when it was felled. I think the most impressive was the building which was built specifically for it, archways with birds and monkeys, and ceillings painted with different plants and gilded gold in writing.
All in all, a good trip out. We didn’t get to see everything, but there’s no problem going back another day.
Now all I have to do, is put my dinosaur cookie cutters to the test 
A couple of months ago, I signed up to a DVD rental scheme. As I hardly ever use the tv, I was wondering whether it would be worth to go on a DVD rental scheme for cheaper and I would get everything I wanted to watch. I would also not be tempted to waste time watching programmes that I don’t normally watch/not interested in. After only a month and a half of trial period, the tv licence renewal form has arrived. I have never been without a telly, this will be a first, and I am seemingly unwilling to part with it.
Well it’s been a long day, something which hasn’t happened in a long time. The rain was just chucking down today, everything was damp and messy and my plants on the balcony are drowning and floating in their plastic pots. I must save them tomorrow. The Stig and I have been building the Lego Harry Potter Knight Bus. Tonight on Channel 5, Terminator 3 was on. I didn’t find it as convincing as the earlier ones, maybe I’m getting old, maybe it is also because I am busy watching the use of special effects and spotting for errors/bloops. Either way it was an interesting ending where we are left at the beginning of the war and terror that we the audience were first told about back in 1984. A fitful ending I believe.
After shopping today at Sainsburys, just before I made it out of the automatic doors, one grandad bent over and gave me a well fermented breeze, it was not flowers I was smelling.
I watched Robots today, it was quite fun and what I thought was going to be a boring scene had me in a fit of laughter, (when the lamp post dies). Sometimes, toiletry humour is a breath of fresh air . . . sometimes.
It is only fitting that I write an entry for the beginning of November.
Today I have cooked and baked enough to feed a 12 people, when there are only 3 eating here tonight. I think I got carried away. Oops!
