500th post!

I've been neglectful of late, but I have excuses as I've been very busy with work stuff. Next week is the event of the year and it requires all my energy. Plus, I'm offloading CDs like a demon on eBay - they're going amazingly well - and I've been all over The Word forum too - people actually comment on posts there.

Last Saturday, I went to see REM at Twickers with my mate TT. They were great - I'm such a fan and I've never seen them. Even the new stuff sounded good. I'm listening to nothing but them at the moment. I went home and downloaded everything I didn't have and I realised it was far more than I'd thought.

I've also attended a funeral in a woodland, part of Epping Forest actually. It was beautiful, but so deeply sad. The woman who died was a work colleague, and she was but 41. Her five-year-old daughter gave a speech - yes - at the funeral and believe you me there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Then you follow the coffin, which was made of wicker or hemp, into the woods. The spot was gorgeous. I half expected fawns and bunnies to be poking their heads through the undergrowth. The light was amazing. So once the coffin's been laid to rest, you all file past the greave and throw a flower into it. It was all rather lovely, really. I'll never forget it.

Anyhoo, on a lighter note, I'm coming up to my 500th post. Can you believe that. Either I've had a ridiculous amount of free time on my hands, or I've been utterly dedicated. You decide.

But I thought by way of celebration I'd do a selection of covers featuring favourite subjects of the blog, you know, like Empire or the Radio Times do.

So I'm thinking:

Dr Hilary Jones
Mrs F-C
Emma Watson
The Marmalade
A bistro
Fiona Phillips
The Urban Woo
A cylcist
Richard & Linda Thompson
Polly Brown
Everybody Loves Raymond

Any more?

So I'm not going to lie, I'm going to be very sporadic. Just grabbing a few mins where I can. I Mrs F-C is back from Prague tonight. Hooray!

Emma Watson's decolletage*

Seems I've upset the Emma Watson barmy army all due to this post.

I know what I saw, and that's what I was reporting here. As shocking as it may seem, Harry Potter's Hermione Granger was canoodling - with her boyfriend. Yes, she has a boyfriend. He even had his hand on her arse! In public!

And my question is: so what? She's over 18 (and so is her boyfriend). Is it not allowed? It seems these fans have her on a pedestal and won't believe that she could do such a thing, let alone actually have a boyfriend.

I don't know why there aren't any pictures of him. But he's real. Or he was. Perhaps they've split up. He had longish, wavyish hair. I'm sure I've seen a picture of the couple together. Search the net.

And get over it.

*Just watch the hit rate soar

** Dropped the 'tits'. You get all sorts round here.