What I was in the middle of saying

when Mum chucked me off the computer

Oh yeah, CD:UK, best music programme at the moment

Well for one they had Fran Healy from Travis, Sharleen Spiterri of Texas and Justin Hawkins from the Darkness discussing new releases. And one was a video for a soap star's new song. And off course she was wearing very little in the video. So the discussion moved on to women's place in the music industry, the evils of the music industry and artistic license.

Plus hey, they gave me Travis and the Darkness back to back. Not going to quibble. Especially when Justin (lead singer with the Darkness) was wearing a tail. Yes, a big shiny pinky purple tail.

And the Travis song - well the idiot critics will say there is no change in sound. But there is. It's a lot more ethereal now. Something brighter, clearer, more fragile. Like an icicle.

It's always nice to see a band you remember when they were small get big.

Other than that, Uncle Ste came round, was fun, then went all prat like, and then was fun again. I will forgive him like I always do, but some payback way down the line is called for. Wait till he's the weak one and then get him to back down. In front of witnesses.

(Sorry, it should be pointed out that my family all love each other dearly. We just don't like each other much.)

Finally figured out who Umbridge reminds me of (no real OOTP spoilers)

One of my old headmistresses. She used to talk down to us to. And we had a teacher who 'hmm hmm'ed. But yes, definitely more like the headteacher because she hated our class. The year below were far worse but they avoided annoying her. We went straight for her. And as I said, she hated us.

(This explains so much about why I liked certain parts of OOTP)