Reasons To Be Cheerful

Just a list of a few things that make me smile

• The Beatles
• Seeing an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine I haven't seen before
• Red Dwarf
• Monty Python
• The Marx Brothers
• thinking I was wrong about something and finding out I was right
• someone I like finding happiness
• the Welsh accent
• various episodes of Doctor Who
• receiving a reply on Twitter by someone I'd admired for years e.g. Stephen Fry
• managing to break though a stubborn patch of Writer's Block and actually write something
• reading
• listening and possibly singing to music (even though I know I can't sing)
• Beetlejuice
• Ghostbusters
• The Dark Knight - especially Heath Ledger's performance
• QI

more to follow, if I think of anything

Fool's Facts

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi is fluent in Norwegian

David Bowie created Connect Four

Fearne Cotton's middle name is One Hundred Percent

American President Barack Obama is a big supporter of Scunthorpe Football Club

Holly Willoughby's full name is Hannah Olivia Laura Louisa Yolanda, but she shortens it to HOLLY

Soap Characters are Time Lords which is why when some of them go on holiday they return looking completely different

Where's Wally? is based on the disappearance of Lord Lucan

Elvis Presley is alive and well and living in Tewkesbury, England

Christina Hendricks' breasts are mostly padding as she's completely flat chested

Former UK Prime Minister John Major had a pet iguana called Eric

Hallowe'en 2012

the following is a few of my favourite Twitter posted costumes I have spotted this year

I do not on the rights to any of these - so if you want them removed - just ask and I'll be happy to :)