It'll be fine for now mate, although it would be easier to shift them now than waiting until next year as they've only just been planted. Mine are in big pots to keep them in check.

I hurt my ankle playing football yesterday. Ouch.

I thik the flower might be one of these: Gladioli Wine & Roses, Begonia Blushing Star, Dahlia Park Princess and Ixia Rose.

Mimi's not to well today so do send her a cheery tweet or something. She's never too ill to check that it seems

Yep, I think the flowering one is a Dahlia, too. The tall ones at the front look to be Gladioli, but I'm rather surprised they've not flowered and gone over yet. When did you plant them out?

Ah, not too surprised then. They're early summer bulbs, you probably won't get any flowers off them until next year.

I am not Dave!

She looks like a cross between Paul McCartney and Bagpuss.

Another bloody mouse at 6am, and this one was a jumper.

NSFW FeEx.

Dear MaliA - then get a summer job. There are fewer migrant workers around this year so fruit picking jobs would be easy to come by. Nice outdoors work.

Also, stop being so messy.

I don't tweet, but tell her to get well soon!

Craster, 6am, yesterday.

On the subject of Disney's flagship rodent character, earlier this evening I played Castle of Illusion (starring Mickey Mouse) for the first time in years. It's aged pretty terribly... now, I can see why it was popular at the time, Sonic had not yet arrived on the Mega Drive so a vaguely competent and colourful platform game would've been welcomed. In 2010 it feels really sluggish even on a 60Hz Mega Drive, is awkward to control and seems more repetitive than a lot of 8-bit platformers that pre-dated it. CoI just doesn't warrant the 'classic' status that some people misguidedly give it, but admittedly I'd argue the same about the first Sonic the Hedgehog game.

Rubbish. Can you charge them for the time taken messing about as well as just the footage they've had?

I haven't enjoyed a single Sonic or Mario game. Am I broken? I really hate platformers.

That's what GTA is nowadays. It's forgotten it's a game.

Oh. I wanted a game.......

[goes back to playing Ikari Warriors and wondering how the guy on the walkthrough I posted makes it look so easy]

What he says. Get 2 for preference. Also Bully is very good.

had a great day at Alton Towers. 13 is awesome went on twice.

Cool I went to Alton Towers yesterday (Wednesday), have to agree 13 is very good. Unfortunately I didn't get to go on RITA.

Slightly disappointed by how busy it was (I know I should have expected it, but there was always a glimmer of hope that the millions of kids all had national service or an emergency exam to go to!) we queued over an hour and a half for 13. Good fun though.