No internet & no Sky TV make Rob a very bored boy

Not much of a bank holiday weekend. Saturday was a recovery session and Sunday's weather was bollox so no early start to mix with the penny-pinchers and mongrel-men for a car boot sale. Spent most of the afternoon and evening at Mark and Lucy's for a BBQ. With Paul & Sarah based in Ibiza and mainly on Second Life, Mark showed us Paul's online shop and a couple of nightclubs. The experience was part intriguing, funny and a little sad. My own laptop doesn't quite have the graphics card power we need to join in the fun.

Kerry had been playing with the idea of buying an LCD TV to replace the crappy 12 year old TV we're using for the flat. Put off by Comet and Curry's overpriced range and lazy staff we headed for Richer Sounds for a Samsung 23" bargain. Still, having no digital TV means no Lost, no Heroes, no interactive and 4 and a half channels of rubbish.

Although having to put up with the local air traffic with the flight path directly over the flats, we're next door to the Harbour Lights cinema so took advantage of their membership to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 3:at World's end. Usually I'm a bit more fussy about seeing films without reading reviews and remembering its prequel shambles but here we were wrapped up in the blockbuster buzz. It was less boring than the second one but they crammed in the plot within the dialogue so you just had to let the ride continue and forget why they did something. It was also too long so by the final huge action sequence we were looking towards the door.