Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"Star Fleet" on DVD at last!

At last, it seems that one of my favourite TV shows of all time, "Star Fleet", will be released in the UK on Region 2 DVD at the end of August.

This was a puppet sci/fi Japanese/European co-production first shown on ITV here in October 1982, so I first saw it when I was a 10 year old sci-fi geekling. And it was simply AWESOME. And like "Battle of the Planets", it still is! Dia-X robot space battles....yay!

I have some "Star Fleet" on video tape already (they were released in an edited format in the late 80s on video rental) but these will be a very nice addition to my collection of stuff!!

* happy....jumps for joy!*

Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter and a singing dog!

Wow, Easter 2008 is over already. It's been a nice four day break, and we have two more days of annual leave to go as well! We had our pal Gary up for a couple of days visit, which was nice even though we spent most of the time in the house watching DVDs (such as "Mash", "Jaws", "This is Spinal Tap" and so on.) We did go to Warwick on Saturday morning, but it was *so* cold and windy (and it snowed!) that we came home sooner than expected. The snow had all gone by Sunday lunchtime though.

Oh, talking about Warwick, well, I have a new job there starting sometime in mid April! This means getting a car and learning to get used to the commute!

There is a great advert on British TV at the moment! It's for the new VW Polo and features a cute singing dog! Have a look at you tube here. I wonder if you buy new Polo you get a dog like this!?