I just found...

...a click biro in my room. Blue and white. Made in Germany.

Little bit scuffed and a little bit scratched, but totally salvageable.

With Refugee Legal Centre written up the side.

The One With All The Snow...

So. Yeah. It snowed last night. Like, a lot. Three inches isn't a lot, but it's a lot for June. I know it's not June, but it was in my dream. So yeah, I've had a night of making snowmen, having snowball fights with Ben and Josh (and Ashton, actually, it was good to see him)and generally larking about in the white stuff.

And after a fun and relaxing night, I'm off to take photos. Later folks.

The One With The Kid In The Road...

I just had such a realistic dream that I, honestly, don't think I can remember having a more realistic one. Ever.

I was bombing back from the vet school on Storey's Way, doing as I usually do, thirty miles an hour, cursing my new tyres for being so slow, while simultaneously loving their ruggedity. Anyhow, I was down on my aero-bars, by which I mean these not these, and there suddenly appeared a small child in the middle of the road.

I swerved, slipped on the front wheel and woke up just as my right shoulder shattered against the kerb. With one hell of a jolt. So much so that I woke up my dog.

The One With Megan and Bailey...

...was shot like a film, including special effects, danger music and adult stunt men playing children's parts. Megan, Bailey and I were an elite ops group of toddlers. We had a cool name, something like "Splinter Group Three" or "Toddler Force Alpha", I forget, but it was way cool.

Anyhow, using mad motocross biking skills we managed to breach the perimeter fence and then we ninja'd the guards, before breaking into the building undetected through a small window. A small window that no adult would have been able to fit through!

Anyhow, we then rigged the lift to allow us access using 1337 hacking skillz. And we ran the last flight of stairs to burst into a council meeting.

The council were all old and kept pinching our cheeks (which is annoying, get off me old woman or you shall feel the cold steel tang of my blade) and offering us rusks (which are tasty) and then the vote! We had come all this way just to add three voices to sway the vote. And after the hands had been tallied, it was decided, Duncan Maskell was *just* decided to be a pillock.

The One With God...

Ok, ok, I'm getting better at this. I'm getting my grove back.

Yup, like an orange grove. I know, I really must learn to spell.

Interesting to have one with the Devil and then, the night after, have one with God. Anyway...So: As part of the Christian Science Exploration Mission, I was on a starship with other science officers and various members of clergy. Also various healers and life givers, a couple of prophets and God (who looked a LOT like Tom here) had come along for the ride.

So, yeah, we got to an inhabited planet. Went down to check it out. I don't actually think I was on the away mission, but I was more of a disembodied camera for this one. So, anyhow, after meeting the local populace (who strongly reminded me of Tanzanians and called themselves the Moto-toto), we found the Dead Zone.

It was a depression, maybe a half a mile long and forty metres wide, between two ridges. It was dark, and misty and eerie. The trees were dead and blackened. The grass was the same. The Moto-toto had warned us not to take anyone in, 'cos we'd die. Apparently, it was "Where necrotoxin goes to die", which I thought was a great quote for a dream. So, naturally, we sent a life giver: a healer from the states, zombie called Tod, who couldn't die again anyway and God, who wasn't too phased by this.

They explored the area and found not only were the trees and grass still there (I assume because a gas that kills EVERYTHING is a pretty good way to preserve things) but also there were some eggs. They were about half a metre high and very familiar looking. The Moto-toto knew what they were as well and had thrown them into the dead zone to, wisely, stop them from ever hatching.

At this point, the resolution dropped a bit, so I don't remember a huge amount of detail, but we were found on the planet by a bunch of marines who'd been stranded there years ago with a ship still in orbit. So, we gave them a lift back, they, needless to say took a couple of eggs as souvenirs, they hatched once out of the dead zone and facehuggers ran amok on their ship.

There was also an awesome scene with a monkey running along over the heads and shoulders of a crowd brandishing a dead and dried-out facehugger as a trophy. It then placed this into the ship's main control panel (where there was a corresponding shaped depression), which for some reason started the engines. Like in Total Recall. But I have NO idea where that fits into anything.

So...er...yeah.

Oh. Wait! There was also an *incredible* scene with God in a plastic Iron Man costume singing kareoke. Honestly. But I don't know where that was either.