Author: John

The Bridge of Rohan

Aaaargh! Ok, big hard fight with swarms of Orcs lurching across a bridge. Not too bad – thankfully I have an Elf who can revive KO’d characters. The battle out of the way, something very similar happens a few steps later. So, I’ve battled my way along to the end of the bridge only to

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Lord of the Rings – The Third Age (again)

Another couple of hours in and I’m in Rohan – 30% complete. Couple of things I should have mentioned – I’m playing the gamecube version. It’s stunning, graphically, but with a touch of slowdown here and there. I’ve heard that the PS2 version crawls at a few points – hardly surprising given the complexity of

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Kirby Air Ride

Fired up for 45 minutes or so to have a quick blast around a couple of tracks. The nice thing about this game is that we can all play it, including Debbie and Harmony (who is only 4). I still find the whole game utterly incomprehensible though. Pretty though.

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Lord of the Rings – The Third Age

Well, I kinda lost interest a bit while lurching through Moria. Loads of brown, loads of repetitive battles with Orcs. Anyway, I was having withdrawal symptoms and picked it up again for another go and managed to complete the Moria section. The Balrog was fun – 178,000 hit points is no joke, but Gandalf is

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Stupid Stuff On Things You Buy Part 2

Dear oh fecking dear. I bought a plastic bottle of “Channel Islands Milk” from Tesco. That’s the creamy, slightly golden, milk from Jersey Cows. I was pouring a glass of it when a small flash of colour caught my eye. There, on the side of the bottle, was an allergy warning. ALLERGY WARNING! it proclaimed.

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The Curse strikes again.

Well, we got four days into the year before something crap happened. That must be pretty near a record or us 🙂 Last night, whilst playing with Tristan’s Magnetix set, Harmony decided to much about with the large ball bearings that come with the set. She is now external to the ball bearing. There was

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Greetings and Salutations for 2005

New Year, New Chickens, as they say. It’s the last day of my holidays, and they’ve been utterly fab – so fab that I haven’t had a chance to post anything on here. I’ve been baking with the kids, playing loads of video games, watching loads of movies. It’s just been one extended fortnight of

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