Blue are back!
Blue are awesome!
Blue are really funny!

(am watching them on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross)

My Dad flew a Boeing 787 878 into a fence and kind of bodged his landing (ie. he crashed!).

Luckily it was only a simulator that he was doing it in. The company he works for makes them for the airlines. They were playing on them after work this afternoon.

Remind me never to go in a plane with my dad if he's the pilot! :-D

I'd been wondering lately if the new series of Torchwood had a confirmed air date, but was unable to find one anywhere I looked.

It's finally up on the BBC Torchwood site as starting on Monday 6th July, 9pm, BBC One.

Yay.

Huh. Apparently Michael Jackson is dead. Or at least critically ill. The reports about his death haven't been confirmed yet.

I finished watching season 2 of Dark Angel the other night. So now I have no more new episodes to watch :-(

And while people warned me about season 2 not being so good? I totally loved it. Of course, it would have been nice for the storylines to have been wrapped up and concluded, but alas it was not to be.

And I really adore Max/Logan.

I also have fallen a little bit in love with Logan Cale.



He's smart. He's sexy. And he loves Max whole-heartedly for who she is, no physical stuff even required. And he'll do anything for her (even let her go when he thinks it's what she wants to be happy *sobs*)

Seriously, I want me a guy like that!

(Yup, I'm totally still crushing on Michael Weatherly - the scruffy look is so damn sexy! Slight MW overload with all the episodes I watched so quickly me thinks!)

I just managed to turn an episode of ST:TNG on in exactly the same place I turned it off earlier when they showed it in the afternoon.
Not that I knew it was the same episode or that it would be the same time!

I learnt to horse ride when I was in Zimbabwe.

First on Prince - the first horse I have ever ridden.



My last ride there was on Jackson. I found him wonderful, he responded to me much better than Prince or Arizona.



I am rather rubbish at horse riding though! But I can say I have cantered at least.

/random update

Despite all of the current shows of mine that I have to watch (like I started on Bones a couple of weeks back, but kind of didn't carry on past about 4 episodes! oops), I got an urge to watch Dark Angel this week.

Previously, I'd been watching it but seemed to have stopped mid-season 1. So now I've just watched up to the end of the season... good finale! Will be watching the start of season 2 tonight me thinks!

Logan/Max = totally adorable ♥

And the previous episode, "Meow", which had Max in heat for the second time that season... oh it had me giggling as I watched it.

And I still think that scruffy!Michael Weatherly is totally hot. Indeedy.

Unemployed!Manda leads to Spamming-LJ!Manda.
Oh well.

:-D


Me about 10 metres in a front of a pair of white rhino, in case you couldn't tell *g*

Fairfax High's prom queen is a guy.
Sergio Garcia, a gay student, beats out the female candidates. His campaign started out as a bit of a stunt, but it ended up generating dialogue about gender roles on the L.A. campus.

David McCallum's in the UK at the moment, which I didn't know about.

But he was on the Steve Wright in the Afternoon show yesterday - skip to 1 hour 40 ish and you'll be able to listen. It's only around 8 minutes.

He was also on The One Show, which was kind of rubbish so I wouldn't suggest watching. (Well, the items they covered were interesting but the actual in-studio stuff wasn't very long and he didn't really get a chance to talk. Plus they didn't sound like they'd ever even heard of NCIS before!)

There's another radio show that he was on that I just found, Loose Ends with Clive Anderson - interview starts at just after 14 minutes in, lasting around 7 minutes.

Also, he said "the next 26 [episodes] that we start in July"! That's a whole episode more than this year, and way more than the 23 and 24 eps of the first 4 seasons. Yay! (Let's hope he got the number correct.)

N.B. It may only be available for UK peeps to listen to, I'm not sure... some stuff you can access abroad but they just add in adverts, so no clue with regards to these particular items.

It is white.
George W Bush, to a child who had asked what the White House was like, on a visit to Britain, July 2001

I asked the barmaid for a quickie. I was mortified when the man next to me said it's pronounced "quiche".
Italian Ambassador to Britain, Luigi Amaduzzi, 2001

I'll walk naked down Main Street.
Jim Whitaker, Mayor of North Plate, Nebraska, promising to raise $5000 for a local animal charity, August 1998. He duly fulfilled his pledge.
"Naked" was a puppy dog.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
George Bush, Washington press conference, August 2004

The solution to Iraq is an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself... Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.
George Bush, April 2007

You want spontaneity? Spontaneity is scheduled for Wednesday.
Labour spin-doctor, talking to The Observer's Andrew Rawnsley, election 1997

We will reduce and probably eliminate the homeless by 2008.
John Prescott, 2002

[The green belt] It's a Labour achievement and we intend to build on it.
John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, quoted in The Guardian, April 1999

John Prescott: "Can I do that again? That was crap."
Nick Robinson: "You're live."
After a convoluted monologue in a BBC interview with Nick Robinson, March 2000

Jack Straw: "Do you know who I am?"
Resident: "No dear, but if you ask matron, she will tell you."
Jack Straw, Home Secretary, visiting a Bournemouth old people's home during the 1999 Labour Party conference

Only some ghastly, dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London and in charge of transport for the city, speaking in 2001 about its iconic red bus; by December 2005 he had had them all phased out

The next lot of photos that I promised...


Hippo butts!

( Yup, more African animals )

Have some more photos from my time in Zimbabwe (and also from Chobe National Park over the border in Botswana)...


Male kudu

( African animals )

More to come tomorrow.

I'm rather amused that in an episode of Supernanny USA that I've had on whilst doing dinner, they have to put subtitles on the screen so that you can understand what the children are saying. And they're from a southern USA state so are actually speaking English. Well, the American attempt at it. Mwhaha!

I really do dislike the accent though, I must say! It grates on my ears!

So it occurs to me that I have neglected to actually say here what's been going on with me life-wise.

So first off, I should mention that in one day short of 2 weeks, I'm moving back to Southampton! I'm moving into a flat with thudjack and misssimm. Yayness!

Secondly, while I am unemployed at this current moment in time, I had an interview (can we call it an interview if it was a chat in Starbucks? though it did last 1.5 hours!) when I was in Soton the other week. It's for a job as a trainee tax accountant. The woman liked me and offered me a job, starting August.

And I think that's actually it on the life news, so there we have it :-)

I have one thing to say:

Tax rebate FTW!

( If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation... )

I got fed up of being unable to find a ST:TNG icon I wanted, so made my own. Coz I loved Geordi!

Yesterday, Emily came down because Grandpa is spending the week at hers.



He bought some flowers that we went and planted on Mum's grave. Partly a belated birthday present to her. Him, Emily, Tia & I had a late lunch together at the Village Tea Rooms. Later, I showed him my travel photos, which he seemed to enjoy.

Tom entertained Tia by letting her think she was actually controlling a character on Mariokart!



I drank tea.