Excess baggage

Which fool chose to bring a load of books in to work with him on the first day of the new bus timetable, the one that means that the buses no longer go through the industrial estate and stop right outside the office? Yup, you've guessed it...

Ghibli does Le Guin

The other day, I happened across this video file but I couldn't seem to be bothered to work out how to view it on the Mac — yeah, I know, I'm probably being lazy about it but hey, it's my life and I can be lazy if I want to be.

Anyway, it turns out I needn't have worried for drspleen, channeling the spirit of kiasu no doubt, has done the necessary scut work and turned up a puff piece and a plot summary. Rather than using A Wizard as the basis of the plot, it looks like Ghibli are going with The Farthest Shore, the one with all the cool stuff about death and the Dry Land instead. Talk about serious potential for greatness.

Fond memories?

While trying to find something else, I turned up some pictures of Tin God being installed in the Sanctum Sanctorum in Bracknell:

( Me and my toys )

My favourite image? The wranglers trying to bounce a million quids worth of big iron over the threshold of the fire escape doors:

( Just get the crowbar under it... )

I feel strangely nostalgic.