I had a very entertaining day and evening round at Mufi's birthday last night. I got down by 2.15 convinced I was running late but beating everyone else by a good few minutes. I briefly saw Lee in full Dad mode while Chris shamelessly spent his time trying to …

I've just got back from Lee's (yet again eliciting puzzled looks as to why I was happy to get the tram back to Stretford). Despite his protestations last week that he wouldn't get time to practice the meal was very good. I especially likes the aromatic rice cooked with sultanas …

I could engage in a long rant on how crap certain traditional Unix tools are compared to their GNU equivalents but as CPAN is currently having issues with gcc I shall have to shelve that for another day.

I could mention the catastrophic gravitational failure that my pan and saucepan …

I entertained Nook, Michelle, Jo, Arwel, Anne, Paul and Sheila last night. Yet again I went to the butchers in Sale but this time went for a nice joint of pork loin. I think I slightly over-seasoned the joint but everyone still seemed to enjoy it. I even served spinach …

Despite never being shown I got hold of a copy of the South Park Scientology episode. Its certainly not the funniest episode Messrs Parker and Stone have done - for example they rather laboured the Tom Cruise in the closet joke. However full marks for the animated guide to Xenu's history …