“Panic and chaos reigned today in London as a mad man proceeded to disrupt the precession by pretend ironing in front of the national gallery. Police suspect he was armed and dangerous, with the iron being ready to deploy in less than 45 seconds.

Fearing that the man was about to iron people to death in a mass murder crusade to avenge some people we haven’t heard of before, the police quickly wrestled the man to the ground in short order, with the ironing board putting up a fight with several officers until they found the little catch underneath and he quickly folded afterwards.

Both are still in custody tonight, and the police report that the ironing board is refusing to talk.”

Still, perhaps that would have been a better and potentially happier news story than most of the things making the headlines these days. Basically that was how I described the events of wandering round London with an ironing board.

But that was the tip of the iceberg compared to the rest of the month as I was settling down in the new workplace rather well, and still learning all sorts about what the big smoke was all about. But frankly despite the sheer amount written at the time, It’s best to condense down to the highlights;

Still was happy about asking Tony Blackburn for the answers to the pub quiz at work. They haven’t had one there since, but I’m reckoning in the summer again, it will be all hands on deck to use the Blackberry to cheat again. Yes, we all see you with them under the table. You will be hunted and killed if you try that again.

Podcast 4 was released during July, which was the last podcast done by the Lord of Leisure, and I suppose the last of Season 2 as since then there has been nothing on this site. But I guess that the question of the Living hell was answered for a brief time, then changed off and on again through the rest of the year. Guess the answer also shifts depending on your situation.

Of course a fair amount of time was spent away from the computer screen, seeing other wonderful things. For instance, there was a poster which I thought I would never see written down after the premiere of the Dark Knight:

Basically at first I thought that Batman had been arrested for all the damages he had caused in Golem City and he now had to do hard time getting bat-raped by a man called Susan in the showers. But we all know what happened afterwards so who really cares.

But after also going to the Dark Knight première, it was the last time I even bothered turning up to those things as someone on the sidelines, just clambering over fences in the vain hope of someone with lots of money noticing my existence. It just seemed like a waste of time, compared to that book signing where I actually was allowed to have a chat with the famous person behind the table as fellow humans.

However, that aside, I now firmly believe that unless you are on that carpet of which few people tread except if you are one of the Borg, I mean the PR people, it’s a complete waste of time to even bother to turn up.

You would have more fun picking you nose hairs clean using a steak knife and a CD of polka hits.

The stars had kept themselves to themselves around one tiny area, with only the bloke who plays Harvey Dented in the film lasting longer than 20 seconds with the crowd.

The showcase of the affair, the motoring of the bat cycle from the film, complete with flaps that go up and down a lot like someone suffering the shakes, proved that it can go backwards and forwards a bit. Sometimes, more than once.

The Magic of the movie business once again, is shown up to be like Britney Spears. Once everyone wanted to know, now just look at what happened to the old fart.

It was also the time I started looking round for a place to live, only for that situation to remain an issue until now, having learned about various scamming methods and also appearing on a Flatmate video with a guy from Hammersmith.

Well sooner or later I guess I’ll be heading that way again to claw back some cash, but for now, the babe lair is where it’s at. Functional it is not yet, but give it time… 🙂