Merry Christmas!

Colander face
Originally uploaded by Smallbrainfield.

I made Christmas dinner for 9, with all the trimmings and nobody died eating it, so all in all a pretty good day.
Best bit personally was the red wine and onion gravy, but pretty much all of it rocked. The turkey wasn't dry, the bacon wrapped sausages were a treat, the roast potatoes had it going on, and seeing as I was cook, I got plenty of choice bits, including a few extra bits of roast parsnip. In fact, there was so much stuff we had a half hour break before the christmas pudding and I didn't need any tea, settling for a cup of tea and a slice of Christmas cake.

While watching Doctor Who, which delivered the goods in spades and of course the teaser for the new season episodes was proper stuff. Then there was an advert for the Torchwood finale, which looks like it might be good, and the new Sara Jane series, which looks ace and really scary, though it's supposed to be for kids.

Of course, the best part of cooking for lots of people is you know you're not going to have to wash up afterwards. I did load the dishwasher, though I still have a get out of work free pass until midnight, so I don't think I'm going to get any suprise jobs, like decorating the hall. Anyway here's to a prosperous new year!

My novelty ties

My novelty ties
Originally uploaded by Smallbrainfield.

Griffin Saver from b3ta told me to photograph myself wearing all my novelty ties. So I skipped home and opened the wardrobe only to realise I'd thrown most of them out. Hence, no Looney Tunes, no Simpsons, no Wallace and Gromit.

But I did find the fetching pinball one, which I'd forgotten all about.

I still wear the other three occasionally, but not usually together.

Out of order

Joel Veitch has been a regular b3tan since the off and has provided some mighty laughs with his mental flash animations.

Now an ad agency somewhere have nicked his ideas on behalf of Coca Cola to use in an advert for their brown liquid in tins. Didn't ask permission or offer to pay him, which is completely out of order.

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