I have had a relaxing day. Just watched Invasion and Supernatural. Nothing like a good bit of alien/monster mystery to entertain.

Liverpool managed a 2-1 win against Pottymouth, so we're through to the next round of the FA cup. Did someone mention Arsenal?

My OH is wonderful. she has many marvellous and mysterious talents herself. Here are my favourite.

1) If I eat anything during the day, for lunch or whatever, when she comes in from work she knows exactly what I have had.... even if I spend hours clearing up any traces.
2) We have a really small freezer, but it doesnt matter how much we buy she always manages to fit it into the freezer! It must be a Tardis in there. Whenever I try I get a bruised foot!
3) She is remarkably clever at finding new and inventive ways of hiding 'clutter'. I come home to a clean room and three weeks later I open a drawer or lift a lid and I find something that had been missing for ages

God bless her!

A new poem from the pen of CJ

The Dunstable Werewolf: A Lament
By CJ

I’m doomed to this feeling of misery
Now I’m living this life of lycanthropy
The life that I lead is taxing
Too much hair on my back for waxing
And when the full moon is there
I get covered in hair
I get down on all fours
I grow claws from my paws
And I howl and I growl
And I hunt and I prowl
And I’m stalked by the local constable
Pity this poor youth from Dunstable

Please don't ask what the inspiration of the poem is, It's silly

Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience. From the BBC site

1. Whale vomit is used by perfumers, to whom it is known as ambergris, and costs £11-a-gram.

2. Whales don't drink - they get their water intake from their food.

3. Aged 13, John Prescott travelled to Brighton with his family to compete for a £1,000 prize in the Most Typical Family competition.

4. Twenty-eight percent of retail sales in Britain, by value, are shops' "own brand" goods.

5. Stephen Fry drives a black cab while in London. (Simon Hughes, however, drives a yellow one.)

6. The composer behind the UK Theme, the medley of English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish tunes which is soon to be axed from Radio 4's early morning routine, was Fritz Spiegl, the man who also wrote the tune to Z-Cars.

7. Chris Martin wanted to hyphenate daughter Apple's surname, but his wife Gwyneth vetoed the name Paltrow-Martin because "Apple Blythe Alison Martin is just so lovely".

8. Heather Mills McCartney told her husband Paul that she would only marry him if he gave up smoking cannabis.

9. One percent of heroin addicts in the UK are treated with state-prescribed heroin.

10. In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.