Occulomency

Firth the fifth

Pssst.... She's behind you!

I'd be scared of that chest too.

Scared but enthralled.

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I've been recently been reading (and audiobooking) H P Lovecraft stories. I first came across him whilst playing "The Hound of Shadow" back on my old Amiga. That was a frustrating experience, mainly due to the rather crappy parser employed by Eldritch games at the time.

I could never complete the game, so I didn't bother reading any of the books either.

Anyway, a few weeks ago, I saw this post on Monkeyfluids (adult material) and thought, what the feck is cthulhu, so I wiki'd it and found it was old H P Lovecraft. So I downloaded 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'The Call of Cthulhu'. Bloody good Gothic horror stuff. Creepy, verbose, written in a way that suggests the Montgomery Burns is involved... Really good stuff. Worth a read.

Anyway, apart from deciding that it really is time for me to find a more 'interesting' way to spend my work days (final straw broke on Friday), I'm having a nice weekend with Mr Alistair, sorting out the garden, pool and fish. Cooking lots of curry, drinking the odd Martini and generally having a bit of a lark. I'm off to cook fish now for the troops (not the one's out of the aquarium, different fish).

The GP isn't being shown live here, but I see that Schumi's in 3rd after 26 laps and looks like he's in good shape.....

Go Schumi!

Does anybody remember this?

I seem to remember, sometime back in the mid to late 1970's, there was a series of children's books that centred upon a boy who had a model railway set up, complete with some little models of historical engineers (Telford, Brindley, Gresley etc).

These model engineers came to life in certain circumstances and helped the boy solve problems, mysteries and the like.

Gresley would always use steam power, Telford liked roads and Brindley liked to use canals, water and flippers (OK I made the bit about the flippers up).

Does anyone have a clue what this series of books was called? Leave a message in the comments if you do. Thanks.

We went out sans Sontaron last night, he was fine. We saw Goblet of Fire, and I must say I really liked it.

This photo's for the Prof.