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Two or three weeks beforehand at my parents' place. A "tasteful" Swedish approach, for which read a boring but fairly pretty selection of red, gold and straw-coloured decorations and basic white candles and stuff. Have never bothered with putting up anything in my own place since I always head back home for Christmas/New Year itself.

My thoughts exactly.

Class smiley, that.

I was the opposite, that whole part of the show made me laugh, especially the mountaineers yodel. THE YODEL!!!

Your cock? Yes But wouldn't it be, to use a term my father used, your "old fellow"? Your cock?

Your cock? Yes

It's practically the only book about whose merits me and my old man are in agreement. Cracking stuff.

Best band name ever. Well, that or Anal Cunt. When you tell people about them they usually don't believe they exist! They're also Cath's favourite band i believe I flogged three old Anal Cunt albums on eBay for about £30 not too long ago.

How predictable.

Unbelievable!

Tottenham Court Road's the stop you'd want for G-A-Y at the Astoria, now that you mention it...

Well you should definitely have time for some nosh between the matinee and evening shows if they're that close together (EDIT: distance-wise, I mean). So long as you're prepared to remortgage your house if you're going to eat anywhere around Covent Garden.

The Hilton website seems to reckon there's a courtesy bus to/from Canada Water tube station every 15 minutes. Canada Water will take you just over 20 minutes from Kings Cross if things run smoothly (Northern Line to London Bridge then change to the Jubilee), then the same again back to Tottenham Court Road, so it'd be cutting it a bit fine but I reckon it's doable...

Tottenham Court Road to Covent Garden is no bother at all, you can walk it in 10-20 minutes depending on what end of TCR you're starting from. Not convinced your hotel is particularly near a Tube station so that bit could be more of a problem if you're reliant on public transport. Are you?

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Aye, it's a pretty decent area, used to have mates in adjacent streets. Always bizarre when something like this happens right under your nose.

knows far too much about the tastes of random Aussies

Ee, that's my old stomping ground and all. Wonder what happened...

Picked up a bunch of stuff in Serbia for 90p a pop. Slimline, no-feature versions of films "for the collection", basically. Kill Bill and the like.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is back.

I want to slap her so bad.

Happy Birthday there fella.

8 points off the leaders isn't too bad. True. I think it's more like 14 though? Either way, seven draws in the first twelve games says it all really.

"Strong language and sexual references throughout." Sky's TV guide, the masters of understatement as ever.