The cat's mother. Or *my* mother, at least.

When I was a young lad, my mother - apparently in some kind of attempt to dissuade me from using the third person singular female pronoun - would tell me, "'she' is the cat's mother!"

She (oh, whoops) didn't succeed very well. She (whoops again) has also made it quite difficult to take the Charles Aznavour song, or indeed the Elvis Costello version as used on one of my all-time favourite films Notting Hill, remotely seriously. After all, I now have alternative lyrics, for the first six syllables at least...

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• Вт, 15:08: To me, The Avengers is "that TV prog from the '60s with Patrick Macnee and Linda Thorson". Dunno what this new film is that's coming out...
• Вт, 15:10: (And yes, Linda Thorson. First Avengers I saw - Channel 4, c. 1984 - were her eps. Came to Diana Rigg later.)
• Вт, 20:00: Finally catching up with yesterday's #SarahJaneAdventures and...it's raining fish, hallelujah! It's raining fish, a-fish!!! *ahem*
• Вт, 20:02: RT @Greebobek: I suppose being gay/lesbian (or undecided) is still pretty hard due to bigots. It shouldn't matter what flavor you are, b ...
• Вт, 20:08: Any of my friends want to form an #onlyconnect team with me? Failing that, erm, @VictoriaCoren? Or is that conflict of interests? :-)
• Вт, 20:21: Ooh, first ep of #SarahJaneAdventures story The Curse of Clyde Langer was pretty darned wonderful...now for second ep.
• Вт, 20:32: @huntingosprey is studying classical culture, but too busy on Greeks to answer v important question - what have the Romans ever done for us?
• Ср, 09:44: The cat's mother. Or *my* mother, at least. http://t.co/y2ZvWtHv
• Ср, 09:59: Popular joke: All we need now is iPhones to start playing up and we'll have the dream headline: Apple and Blackberry crumble RT @HylandIan”
• Ср, 10:01: Got to the squirmingly embarassing interviews bit of #NottingHill. I normally skip this bit...

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"Keep it secret, keep it safe," kind of implies "don't flog it down the local charity shop..."

So, now that I've got the entire lord of the Rings collection on nice shiny blu-ray, it could be argued that my R1 edition of The Two Towers is a bit surplus to requirements, but on the other hand I did once get it signed by Sir Ian McKellen, so that means I'm bally well keeping it.

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Tech being weird

Anyone else out there have those moments when apps don't always come up as having had an update issued when you log into the app store (this, in my case, specifically refers to apps for the iPhone, but may also apply to other platforms). I find it, well, rather annoying.

In related news, I'm rather adoring the latest version of the Livejournal iPhone app, which not only fixes some minor glitches but is almost a different app entirely. Lovely stuff.

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Writer's Block: Between a rock and a hard place

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I wouldn't much care for either. I mean, I'm anarachnophobe so the spiders wouldn't be particularly desirable, but I'm not desperately keen on snakes either.

I'll go for option C, Chris - I'll have the pit of money.