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My copy of Doctor Who and the Daemons has arrived. I am excessively excited by this.

I have also managed to find a pair of jeans that fit. I would hereby like to recommend Red Herring @ Debenhams. Particularly when there's a sale on so I find a good pair of jeans for £14.

I also found a Bat-belt going cheapish too. Sadly not a real Bat-utility belt but I'll take what I can get.

I couldn't find any Brylcream anything in Boots, which is annoying. It's like when they stopped selling Simple stuff.

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I've seen the January rankings and I'm 101st in the country. That means I've not quite achieved my second aim for this fencing year (part 1 was top 16 in a competition with more than 30 fencers i.e. the Leeds) but I'm not far off. Now to kick tush at the Merseyside and make up the 10 points I need.

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I really enjoyed the Hobbit, and there will be further comment once I can get beyond Dwarves!!! Hobbits!!!

I was also thinking ( Spoilers for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings )

For those that haven't seen the Hobbit yet and haven't read the books and don't want to be spoiled, have a different story of familial silliness in the cinema - The year Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet came out was also the year my girl cousin was doing R + J in English, so she and my Uncle went to see it. The rest of the patrons of that screening are also parent plus child combos. So Romeo and Juliet ends the way it always does, and my girl cousin is rolling her eyes as we all do. Except half the cinema is crying, the parental half of course. Apparently my Uncle was crying so hard that the lady next to him, who wasn't much better, offered him a tissue.

We shouldn't be allowed out :)

One amusing story from this year's Olympics (from the BBC):

More on gold medal-winning Thai weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon. We are told the reason she has a long name is that a fortune-telling nun advised the 24-year-old last year to change her name from Chanpim Kantatian to improve her luck. Good call, fortune-telling nun.

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If anyone knows the rules of judo a la Olympics I'd love to ask you some questions.

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Heee! Steve Parry is colmentating. Scousers of the world unite.

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The last point of the men's epee final was either 1) brilliant or 2) an example of what not to do in epee. Yet somehow he hit.

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The clothing - I am hideously tempted by two skirts in New Look. This one (http://www.newlook.co.uk/1514812/151481209/ProductDetails.aspx) and this one (http://www.newlook.co.uk/1514959/151495949/ProductDetails.aspx) or very similar. Trouble is, they are very mini, and while you can't quite seem my knickers in them, even with tights, it would be a close run thing. But, and especially the kilt type one, so very tempted.