Prime finally showed the Dr Who Christmas Special tonight. It was brilliant!

Russell T Davies is a genius for dialogue. And Catherine Tate as the bride! There was a point in it when she got upset, and you could see her jsut about to go "am I bovvered?" Funny! David Tennant is growing on me too.

On other TV related matters, C4 did a '40 songs you are embarrased to love' which was compelling viewing last night! Most of them are way old, and I knew all the words, but hadn't seen the videos. Billy Idol's White Wedding was in the top 10, and had bizarrely racist overtones which you don't really pick up in the song - the whole wedding congregation did a nazi salute in the chorus. And Billy Idol did this Elvis lip curl while he was singing, which made him look like a complete knob.

The funniest one was definitely Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, where she is running amok in a boy's school. I have never seen so many scantily clad young men in my whole life (although it would be worth trying). Very very funny, and would probably be even funnier with the sound off. There was one bit where she was singing and a bloke in a loin cloth jumped up and did a high leg kick to one side, right in front of her, not in time to the music or anything. Very incongruous. I bet she had a lot of fun making it!

Went to see The Cure last night - they played 1 night in Auckland because some fans got together a petition to persuade them to include NZ in their world tour!

I got gothed up, for the first time in years, we got a babysitter and we had fun!

They didn't have a keyboard player, which made some of their old stuff sound odd, as did the fact that they had a 'rock' drummer, but they played loads of really old songs (the walk, a forest etc), and did 'Boys don't cry' as one of their (many) encores. They played for about 3 hours, and we finished up dancing in the rows between the seats.

Didn't get to bed til about 1, so I felt it at work today, having got up at 6,30!

Auckland has just had the 'Big Day out' music festival, with Muse and the Killers. I ummed and ahhed about going cos someone was crushed to death a few years ago when Limp Bizkit played and they blamed the organisers for not caring about the audience. By the time I'd decided to go (and take my kid) all the tickets had gone - Boo!

So I had a cheer myself up weekend instead.

I made a chocolate fudge cake on Saturday - it was huge - a 2lb cake tin. The centre was too light and not fudgey enough, so I won't include the recipe.

On Sunday the weather was lovely - a NZ summer day in all its glory. Spent the day on the beach with the kid bodyboarding, then came back and had a gourmet BBQ. Tried Tarahiki - a NZ white fish - firmish flaky texture. I bought fillets and marinated them in lime juice, caperberries and sweet chilli sauce, then onto the BBQ for a few mins, and served with a squirt of lemon juice. Instead of rolls I did panini grilled then topped with olive oil, BBQ'd red onions, grilled tomato and red pepper slices and some sea salt. Its also asparagus season here, so we had plainly BBQ'd asparagus. Pudding was the chocolate fudge cake, which works better as a pudding than a cake, especially when served with chocolate fudge brownie ice cream and cream. Calorie attack!!!

Best of all, there are clear skies tonight, so I and all my neighbours saw the McNaught comet. It has an amazing tail on it.
link to this for piccies is NZ Herald

The other thing I've been doing lately is reading fanfic by ljs . Having read her "What would Hugh Grant do?" fic (Ganya) I've made a start on her website (as her journal is flocked) to read more Ganya. She writes it so well - I haven't finished the fic yet, so I won't name it as I haven't commented on it - but its written the way I would want Giles and Anya to be together. Its incredibly romantic, but still with the full-on characters. Whew!


Have also started on glassdarklyuk kinky as hell Wesley/Spike fic (Spesley?) and am enjoying it immensely! I will write more about this!