Thankfully, unlike the moron who wrote the review for the 'Addict' magazine (given away free in Odeon Cinemas), the film makers knew that the book was written by C.S Lewis and not Lewis Carrol! Also thankfully, they stayed faithful to the story and didn't feel the need to move it to America or to attempt to modernise it - an earlier aborted attempt to make the film did just that and had Edmund asking for Cheeseburger instead of Turkish Delight.
The film was reasonably well acted and the animals voices seemed well chosen, especially Ray Winstone as Mr Beaver and Liam Neeson as a suitably majestic Aslan. The film was a bit slow starting but worth watching if you liked the books. Hopefully they'll continue to make the other 6 in the series.

My last day in work this year. I'm really looking forward to the week and a bit holiday. We were supposed to finish work at lunchtime tomorrow but my travel card expires today and I can't be bothered paying to come to work for half a day so I booked all of tomorrow off as a holiday.
I've had more trouble than usual doing my Christmas shopping this year, probably because by the time I've walked to the shops from work I only have about 40 minutes shopping time. It's made casual browsing a bit hard and as a result it's taken me much longer to do it this year - I've still got one present to buy tonight!
Ah well, that's nearly it for another year. The run up to Christmas has been a bit more stressful this year - partly shopping problems, partly the car dying. Hopefully the holiday itself will be a bit more relaxing.

On last nights Mark Radcliffe Show on Radio 2, he had Badly Drawn Boy as studio guest and coversation got onto the subject of tribute acts. It started off with the possibility of a Showaddywaddy tribute act called 'ShoddyWaddy' and soon got more surreal as listener suggestions started arriving. Somehow, it ended up with joke racist or fascist bands. Mark admitted that it was in poor taste and he probably shouldn't be doing it but went ahead anyway. Some of the funnier ones (or at least, the ones I can remember) were: Ku Klux Klannad, BNP J Harvey, Far Right Said Fred, Barry White Supremacist.