SPANNING THE WORLD...
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OK, so only a few of you decided to share your weekend with us. Those that did, thanks...
Our choice for the most interesting weekend goes to our friend TopChamp...
You'll never believe what happened to me this weekend! I was meandering around Glasgow when I bumped into James McAvoy (friend from college but also the star of many a film - Mr Tumnus from Narnia for example). It just so happened that James was attending a premier of his film that night and was short of a date. Being the kind generous person that I am, of course I offered to help out!So James picked me up in his limo and drove me to the cinema... then past it and round the corner where he dropped me off with my ticket, before taking on the red carpet himself.
Charming...
Don't know about you folks, but in our opinion Mr. James McAvoy is a total classless slime-dog...
Well, it is official... Mr. Paul Potts, the mobile phone selling Opera singer was chosen as the
winner of "Britain's Got Talent"...Mr Potts earns himself £100,000 prize cheque, and the Britain's Got Talent winner will perform at the "Royal Variety Performance", by invitation of Her Majesty The Queen.
The Royal Variety Performance will be shown on December 3rd 2007.
winner of "Britain's Got Talent"...Mr Potts earns himself £100,000 prize cheque, and the Britain's Got Talent winner will perform at the "Royal Variety Performance", by invitation of Her Majesty The Queen.The Royal Variety Performance will be shown on December 3rd 2007.
See...now, here is what I am going to do with my change jar...
A view of the River Thames painted by Claude Monet sold for almost $36 million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the London art market.
"Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert" ("Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather") was bought by an anonymous American bidder for $35.6 million including buyer's premium during a sale at Christie's auction house.
The price _ more than double the work's pre-sale estimate _ is the second-highest ever for a Monet at auction. The record of $39.7 million was set at Sotheby's in 1998.
A view of the River Thames painted by Claude Monet sold for almost $36 million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the London art market.
"Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert" ("Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather") was bought by an anonymous American bidder for $35.6 million including buyer's premium during a sale at Christie's auction house.
The price _ more than double the work's pre-sale estimate _ is the second-highest ever for a Monet at auction. The record of $39.7 million was set at Sotheby's in 1998.
Maybe all he wanted to do was knit some gloves for the winter...
Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
The child's parents, migrant workers from southwest China, said they had no idea how the needles ended up in their son, nicknamed Xiao Yu.
"We have to perform the surgery as soon as possible, but we cannot promise that we can remove all the needles," the doctor, Gu Yong, was quoted as saying.
The parents said they took Xiao Yu to a hospital on June 2 after he cried for three or four nights in a row and ate less than usual.
An X-ray taken there revealed two needles inside the boy's chest. He was sent for surgery at another hospital, where a second X-ray revealed four more needles _ two in his scrotum, one in his head and another in his abdomen.
CREDITS:
"ROADHOUSE BLUES"
The Doors
COMPOSERS:
John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
The child's parents, migrant workers from southwest China, said they had no idea how the needles ended up in their son, nicknamed Xiao Yu.
"We have to perform the surgery as soon as possible, but we cannot promise that we can remove all the needles," the doctor, Gu Yong, was quoted as saying.
The parents said they took Xiao Yu to a hospital on June 2 after he cried for three or four nights in a row and ate less than usual.
An X-ray taken there revealed two needles inside the boy's chest. He was sent for surgery at another hospital, where a second X-ray revealed four more needles _ two in his scrotum, one in his head and another in his abdomen.
CREDITS:
"ROADHOUSE BLUES"
The Doors
COMPOSERS:
John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
