Category: Journal

Fliss and I visited some friends up in York for the tail end of the bank holiday weekend just passed. Although we spent a majority of the time in various pubs (and a snooker club!), we did manage to see a little bit of the olde towne on Monday afternoon.

It’s like Chester, only more compact and a bit of a maze into the bargain. I enjoyed the change of scenery, and the fairly simple drive there and back, so I imagine we’ll be back there at some point for more merryment.

Thanks to Andy and Rachael for putting us up. =o)

I forgot to mention that imdb fixed the incorrect goof I pointed out to them. Sadly they fixed it by removing it – not what I had in mind… I wanted an “Incorrectly regarded as goofs:” placed in front of the offending goof, so I could forever more be entertained with the knowledge that I’d pointed it out.

Ah well, maybe next time =o)

Fliss and I went to the Rawhide comedy club this past week down at the Albert Dock in Liverpool. It made for quite an entertaining evening, and although the quality of the comedians was a bit hit and miss, the host, Chris Cairns, was a pretty funny guy.

Well worth checking out if you’re in the vicinity, except if there’s a scouse guy called “Nige” on the bill you’d be advised to leave before his set. He’s just not very funny at all – not even worth the price of the free tickets we had…

On Wednesday we went to see the Circus in Sefton park. I was a little apprehensive, because… well, you know – my enduring image of a typical circus is one I went to see over 20 years ago in Dunbarton back in Scotland. Flea bitten lions and crappy clowns a go-go, kind of thing.

The circus of the 21st century turns out to feature nada in the way of flea bitten members of the feline family. Oh no – it has insane dudes doing insane stuff, not to mention hot chicks doing crazy things with hula hoops!

Even the low key clown-esque guy was pretty amusing, although the show stopper had to be a motorbike on a high wire with an acrobatic chick doing stuff on a harness below it. Very cool.

Didn’t think I’d be saying this, but the circus was actually more fun than the comedy club of the night before. =o)