Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen.

I should never watch Aliens late at night. I always end up having an 'Aliens' dream that night. It's supposed to be a Vietnam movie in space but I reckon it's actually a Zombie flick in space - barricading themselves into a small space with a hoarde of bloodthirsty Others outside, clamouring to get in, picking them off one by one? It's just Night Of The Living Dead with airlocks. And a Boss Monster that you think is dead and then turns up again? Very B-Movie Schlock Horror. I really love it, though. Even though we watched the stupid extended edition with the fat Captain off Red Dwarf and Husdon's 'Check it out' speech. 'We're in some real pretty shit now!' McFly seemed to enjoy it too, he had a wriggle.

Me and hubs had a bit of a Readathon yesterday, having finally spent the book tokens we got as a wedding present. I've finally finished Thud and am now about 1/3 through The Eyre Affair (and scratching my head over a missing chapter - I'm sure it'll explain why it's gone at some point), Hubs has very nearly finished my beloved copy of The Sirens Of Titan (passed down from my old Daddy) and is enjoying it, so now I need to indoctrinate him into Slaughterhouse 5.

Has anybody else seen that 'I am David Hasselhoff - King of the Internet!' advert? Maybe it's been on for months already since I watch precious little TV, but I laughed my ass off.

Also, we may be going to see Tim B-T and the lovely Dr Garden in a Goodies show in Brighton! Woo! We rewatched Kung-Fu Capers (Ecky Thump!) and Gender Education last night - my God, they really are still incredibly funny. More consistantly so than the Pythons, in my opinion.

Simple Pleasures

You know what's fun?

- Singing along to songs in the style of Bob Dylan, or Alan Partridge, or a Cockney accent, or as loud and out of tune as possible.
- Talking like Hank Hill (I tell you what) or Fagin (my dear) or a 1880's Prospecter (Dagnabbit)
- Scat singing to the tune of 'Jingle Bells'.
- Doing a David Bowie impression and having it morph slowly into a Dalek, via Cary Grant.
- Using bizzaire cuss words - my personal favourite is 'Piss Wizards'.
- Miming along in a ludicrously OTT fashion to cheesey love songs. (That 'Cos I'm your Ladyyyyy' one is the best)
- Using the exclamation 'Tush Pish', as well as 'Well I'll go to the foot of my stair!'
- Asking children why they aren't at school, when it's the holidays.
- Dancing to other peoples' ringtones, and pretending to be disappointed when they answer.
- Rave dancing to the BBC News theme tune, or singing 'Channel 4! Channel 4!' to the Channel 4 news theme tune.
- Phoning a friend and pretending to be a little old lady trying to get through to Meals On Wheels. 'Hello, is that Meals On Wheels? Because I'm *Starving!* Can just have pudding today, please? Can you make sure that coloured lad doesn't deliver it though? It puts me off.'

What other free and simple ways are there for us to amuse ourselves out there?