Infamy

There’s a distinct pecking order (if you pardon the pun) at the bird table. The small birds, dunnocks and tits, are told to clear off by the finches. The finches in turn lose out to the blackbirds and magpies. These get scared off by the squirrels.

Now the next in the food chain ought to be Marv barking at the squirrels and the squirrels scurrying away. But Marv is in the living room and the squirrels just pause to look at the commotion through the window before continuing to devour everything on the bird table.

Here’s a photo taken this morning. Wanted for crimes against bird tables throughout the greater Pontypridd area.

Movie Notes

So there’s going to be another Carry On movie, eh? It will be the 32nd in the series. No prizes but lots of kudos for knowing the names of the other 31. The first was Carry On Sergeant. Carry On London will star Shane Ritchie (in the Sid James role), Vinnie Jones (Bernard Bresslaw) and Victoria Silvstedt (Barbara Windsor of course).

In honour of this new movie, here are a few of my favourite Carry On lines:

Carry On Up The Khyber
“I’ve never been in a cart pulled by oxen before”
“Bullocks”
“No, honestly I haven’t”

To get a snake charmer to go away – “Fakir off!”

Carry On Cleo
“Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got in infamy”

Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head
“I’m Camembert! I’m the big cheese!”

If you have any favourites, email them in and I’ll use the best next week.

TV Notes

Just about coping without my weekly dose of The Apprentice. Just have to make do with spotting all the same dysfunctional work types at the office. We definitely have a Syed, a couple of Badgers, and a Tuan.

For those with an interest in American sports I have to recommend NASN, the North American Sports Network (www.nasn.com). It’s available by subscription on Sky and shows extensive coverage of baseball, basketball and hockey (ice not field). Occasionally it broadcasts some of its shows free to air (freeview). Well worth keeping an eye out for.

The best programme for a general cath-up on American sports is Pardon The Interruption, which features the genius that is Tony Kornheiser.