Exciting stuff!

Things like this aren't supposed to happen around here. I mean, this is a Cambridgeshire village, not downtown Los Angeles, for God's sake.

I was woken at 2.30 a.m. this morning by a police car chase. Heard wheels screeching and sirens wailing, jumped out of bed in time to see a car come hurtling down our cul-de-sac pursued by two police cars. The car (either stolen or a getaway car) went down the bumpy unmetalled track at the bottom of our garden, swerved out of control and crashed into a garden fence two doors up from us. The driver jumped out, body barged a pursuing policeman out of the way, then jumped over the hedge into the school playing fields and made off. I could hear other police cars going along the main road round the other side of the school to head him off, and I gather from what the police outside our house were saying that they did catch him. Then we had a fire engine hunky firemen - yum turn up to remove the car from the fence and make sure it wasn't a fire risk.

And DH slept right through all of this! I just couldn't believe it!

Troy

So there was this city, decorated with obviously fake strands of greenery. And a huge army of orcs came to destroy it. There was lots of gratuitous sweat-and bloodstained naked Achilles (very nice too), Orli has beautiful brown eyes but still hasn't proved to me that he can act, and Sean Bean as my old favourite Odysseus was awesome and totally hot, even if he did get confused and go into the old 'brother, captain, king' routine at the end. Oh, and I didn't miss the gods as much as I thought I would.

So what did I think of it? Achilles kneeling to await my pleasure will do very nicely thank you. Enjoyable hogwash. With pretty pretty men.