14 stone 4.5 pounds.

Get in there!

I had a brief concern that while I’m away on holiday I would do the usual thing of eating and drinking loads and everything going to pot but I flicked through a dive magazine today and discovered that a 45 minute dive will burn about 700 calories (height, weight and age taken into consideration) so two dives a day are going to burn the best part of 1500 calories and as it’s a dive holiday, drinking will be minimal.

Woohoo.

(I’m getting obsessed aren’t I!)

Dragons have never been that well portrayed in films. I don’t mean that they’ve been demeaned but simply that there hasn’t been a really good dragon. The Sean Connery voiced Draco in “Dragonheart” was okay, if a little too cutesy (and prone to changing in size and was obviously inspired by a cat if you watch the way he walks). Reign of Fire, a film all about dragons, was fairly good but was lacking in too many ways. Dragonslayer was a bundle of fun but I was never that impressed by the beast in it.

However, this picture of the Hungarian Horntail from the forthcoming “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is pretty damn good (if a little large - the picture that is). Perhaps a little too horny for my particular tastes but there’s something about it’s stance, it’s face and expression that reminds me of the covers of Dungeons and Dragons books from way back in the early 80’s. Of course, it’s still only a picture but it looks pretty damn good to me.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is due for release on 17th November.

I’m loathe to admit it, but I’m currently underwhelmed by the new Nine Inch Nails album, “With Teeth”. I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t really jump out at me as being, well, good.

I’m hoping it will grow on me.