After the recent near miss of New Orleans from hurricaine 'Gustav' I thought I'd check out hurricaine monitoring in The Atlantic Ocean online. The National Hurricaine Center website seems to be one of the best for up to date data... ...As some of you might know, tropical storms that effect The Carribean and Gulf of Mexico areas originate off West Africa and queue up, heading westward over the...

Just arrived home from this evenings TUN. Took the bus this month but couldn't resist getting a cheeseburger from the local kebab shop to munch during the last 10 mins walk. Feeling very tired now. Goodnight!

There are only a couple of other customers here this morning but they are both busy folding. It'll be my turn soon as I'm nearly at the end of my third tumble dry session. Later, I'm going to tackle the double header of 'Babylon AD' & 'Hell Boy II' at the VUE cinema in Croydon. Tomorrow, I'm hoping to catch 'The Clone Wars', before it goes out of general release too. Much reviewing will be posted here...

This last Bank Holiday Weekend I went down by train to visit a old school friend who now lives near Southampton. I arrived at around noon and helped go fetch some meat at the local supermarket. After watching the Athletic finals from Beijing, we enjoyed a plentiful barbecue. Many were in attendance including good friends, del_c & vicarage . After a comfortable sleepover and a hearty...

Anyone else sad that the Olympics are over? It's only once every four years and goes only for little more than two weeks. I keep expecting to wake up to the news that Great Britain has won another medal and then come home from work to watch hours of olympic coverage on BBCi. But now when I turn on the tv, there's ghts from Beijing anymore. I'll have to just spend my time posting about my mundane life...

Got an early start this morning as I'm working from lunchtime this thursday. Only one other customer here today win is busy reading up the other end. I was hoping more folk would be here the discuss the great performance Britain is having in the Beijing Olympics. Still third in the medel table after silver and gold in the mens 10km and sailing respectively. Some Aussies have been complaining that most...

British Canoe Slalom champion, David Florence, has just won an amazing Silver Medal in today's C1 Final! Well Done Dave!!

Well I think I've given any of you who wanted to, a good chance to see it so here goes... The Dark Knight follows on in the same vein from the 2005, Batman Begins. Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman & Morgan Freeman all reprise their roles from the former film. However, Maggie Gyllenhaal now takes on the role of Rachel Dawes which was played by Katie Holmes in the first film... ...

China is at the centre of attention right now and it seems that almost everything has happened there this year. The latest is A Total Solar Eclipse today that will start in Arctic Canada, go through Siberia and Mongolia and end in China... ...All that and the Olympics next week. It's all go over there!

I'm already near the end of my visit this week as my stuff is already on it's second bought of tumble drying. The were a couple of folk here when I arrived but there's no one here now except the attendant. I's overcast outside but fairly humid. I am on the late shift today so have to arrive work at 4:30pm just when most office folk are thinking of leaving for the day. It seems to be part of the regime...