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I suspect it will be.

Because tonight is one of the most dreaded nights in a parents life at this time of year….

THE SCHOOL PLAY!

Oh Christ on a wind-up bacon slicer, I am not ready for this.

I am vair vair tired! I will not be able to stay awake….

Yes I do want to see Sarah, and just like every other parent there, once my child has been and done their stuff I will want to be out of there like a rocket. Sarahs class are doing a dance routine somewhere in the play, and it will be hard to sit there as an entire school of other peoples kids arses around for ages before she and her mates get to do their bit.

And as always the heating will be on kill, we will be sat on chairs designed for midgets with padded arses, not normal sized humans with bones in their bums, and all the nannas various “perfumes” will mix into a noxious cloud and render it almost impossible to breath.

If of course I am lucky to get somewhere to sit. They still have not worked out that they should restrict tickets to parents only first and then see if there are any left over for the cooing nans and aunties.

Fuck!

I am so not looking forward to this.

I am listening to "Bring it on Home" from Led Zeppelins second album - my favourite of theirs - and am amazed to hear in the right channel something I have not heard before.....

Some one playing the Spoons!

How odd.

It's amazing what you hear for the first time when you listen to an old track on headphones....

What next, the hidden Kazoo backing harmoney on "Ace of Spades"? the Swannee Whistle on "Smells like Teen Spirit"?

Was in the paper this morning.

A geek guy called Le Tung who lives in Canada, has built himself a robot girlfriend.

Not a clunky looking thing like a terminator with the skin off, but a rather disturbingly doll like pretty and scarily realistic looking one. I look at the pictures and get an odd feeling of being attracted but knowing something is very wrong. Probably very like the way Juzzy feels when looking at lady-boys.

This guys creation is called Aiko and “she” can do almost anything except walk and smell things. Oh reeeeely.

“Her software could be redesigned to simulate her having an orgasm” claims Mr Le. Mind you he also claims he didn’t make her for sex. Uh-huh, yeah ok.

This 33 year old “inventor” says that he never had time to find a human girlfriend and so put Aiko together at a cost of £14,000.

Two things strike me here. First is the worrying use of the phrase “human girlfriend”….are all the sheep keeping clear of his house now then?

The second is that if Mr Le has spent some of that money going out and meeting people, developing his social skills and learning to interact with women rather than sitting at home with a hot soldering iron, he may actually have a proper girlfriend by now.

Or maybe not, because later on he states that Aiko “will work for nearly 24 hours a day. She is the perfect woman”

With that sort of attitude, no wonder he had to build a woman for himself.