hmmm

Defeat! Only tempered by those around us also losing. If we'd even got a draw we'd be up to 15th! 

After all the fuss, Newcastle got a goalless draw with Bolton Wanderers in a tedious game. So much for exciting football.

How do you get more icons? I have 105; is that all I can have? Bah!

Today's word is also tomorrow's word. How cheap: covering two days with one word and it's not even a good one: demurderized - pronounced to be not murder. 

It is Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, though the calendar doesn't make clear if it's today or tomorrow. I'll look it up. (It's today) He, of course, wrote The Murders at the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first murder mystery. Wasn't the 'murderer' an ape? Anyway, it is also  the first outing of a detective in fiction, namely C. Auguste Dupin and so partially inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. 

This calendar takes you all over the place and I've remembererd things I'd forgotten I knew, like Poe married his cousin when she was 13 and Allan was an adopted name when he was taken in by that family after his mother died.

Television would have struggled to fill the hours without him. Just think of all the programmes that rely on detectives - amateur and professional - to entertain us. I liked early Columbo and the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Adventures. And we wouldn't have had Bones either, should the WGA strike ever end. I see the directors got a quick fix. Our pay rise for the next three years came in at 2.45% initially followed by 2.3% in 2009/2010. Of course, British Gas just put their prices up by 15% so that was a short-lived thrill and we don't even get it until September.

Went to Sunderland shopping today. Got a new hat for inclement weather and knickers. How thrilling.

hmmm

Defeat! Only tempered by those around us also losing. If we'd even got a draw we'd be up to 15th! 

After all the fuss, Newcastle got a goalless draw with Bolton Wanderers in a tedious game. So much for exciting football.

How do you get more icons? I have 105; is that all I can have? Bah!

Today's word is also tomorrow's word. How cheap: covering two days with one word and it's not even a good one: demurderized - pronounced to be not murder. 

It is Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, though the calendar doesn't make clear if it's today or tomorrow. I'll look it up. (It's today) He, of course, wrote The Murders at the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first murder mystery. Wasn't the 'murderer' an ape? Anyway, it is also  the first outing of a detective in fiction, namely C. Auguste Dupin and so partially inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. 

This calendar takes you all over the place and I've remembererd things I'd forgotten I knew, like Poe married his cousin when she was 13 and Allan was an adopted name when he was taken in by that family after his mother died.

Television would have struggled to fill the hours without him. Just think of all the programmes that rely on detectives - amateur and professional - to entertain us. I liked early Columbo and the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Adventures. And we wouldn't have had Bones either, should the WGA strike ever end. I see the directors got a quick fix. Our pay rise for the next three years came in at 2.45% initially followed by 2.3% in 2009/2010. Of course, British Gas just put their prices up by 15% so that was a short-lived thrill and we don't even get it until September.

Went to Sunderland shopping today. Got a new hat for inclement weather and knickers. How thrilling.