Vanishing campers, small children, rubbish films

It's turning into one of those weeks.

I decided I'd send reminders to everyone who hadn't quite decided about my camping shennanigans next month. And the numbers of probably going and definitely going people then plummeted from 39 to 29. Still, at least there'll be some people going, and that's what counts.

And I survived an invasion by small children, doing my uncley duties with even the latest addition. For a 5 week old baby, she was surprisingly good. Didn't throw up on me once. Or create unpleasant odours. Well, some mild farting. Which is quite disturbing when you're holding a small thing that starts wiggling and farting and possibly won't do to well if dropped.

I'm almost half way to the target for buying a DS. Another 5 quid of Amazon vouchers from various surveys. Bringing the total to £40. (And my grand total of "free" things for the year to £116.97). Which I can't complain about. By the time I can afford the DS, I'll have got around to killing that FF12 Yiazmat bastard. He's not dying without a fight, it seems. Probably just as well, otherwise the game would be a bit rubbish.

"Grrrr!"

"No, not Grrrr. Die!"

"Oh, OK." (insert battle winning music here)

Oh, and the rubbish films? It appears that Sky have made it mildly easier to find rubbish films to watch, by rearranging all their movie channels. 12 channels have now become 10 channels, 1 of which is a +1 hour version of another. So 9 channels, really. And one channel (and the +1 version) show the same films every day for a week, so it's more like 1/7th of a channel. So 8 1/7 channels. That's 68% of the channels we had before. (Actually, less, really, since some of them now start later in the day). On the plus side, they're showing more adult films during the afternoon. Except you can't stop it asking for the PIN number when you watch them.

So I was watching The Fog. The 2005 remake version. It was quite bad. Very bad, really. Apart from the obvious question of "Why?", to which the answer is probably John Carpenter wanted some easy money, there's the issue of the CG fog. When you can get small machines that generate lots of fog from some cheap liquids, and the whole premise of your film involves fog, why would you then go and use computers to create the fog for most of the film??

Actually, it's possibly not really that bad a film. Just entirely pointless. A "horror" film that's about as tame as an episode of Doctor Who. And not quite as fun. Who decided that getting a 15 certificate for these sorts of films was a good idea?? I want them reluctantly granting an 18 certificate after demanding many cuts.