Slippery dip? What the hell is a slippery dip?

I know from bitter experience how boring it is to listen to other people blether on about how wonderful their kids are. However, Beth is so I will. Here's the proof - the cutest Kamkaze Slide Baby in the Southern Hemisphere. More here.

An unpromising weekend blossomed into rather a good one thanks to some movies and a book. The movies were:

Ikiru - Stunning, weeptastic, genuinely thought-provoking and challenging

Days Of Heaven - Visually dazzling but narratively a little dull

A History of Violence - Gripping and challenging

The book kept me up until 1am in a bid to finish it yesterday - read all about it here.

Football was rotten, but - hey! - I won't let that get me down, it was well worth staying up until 4.15am for. Hrumph.

Life is brief /

Fall in love, dear maiden /

While your lips are still red /

And before you are cold, /

For there will be no tomorrow