I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise, with my absolute favourite being Aliens, so much so I backed the excellent documentary, Aliens: Expanded. It's a four-hour long documentary filled with some really interesting stories, anecdotes and it was a fascinating watch. If you're a fan, it's worth the purchase. Anyway, when I heard that a new Alien movie was on the way I was both happy and apprehensive. Much like the Predator franchise, recent installments had been lacklustre, however, the existance of Prey filled me with a little bit of hope that, in the right hands, we might get a decent movie. So knowing that director Fede Álvarez's history being in horror movies, those feelings of hope increase and, after watching the movie this past week, I'm glad to report that we finally have a movie that adds to the franchise rather than detracts.

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It's been quite some time since I'd been to a Formula 1 Grand Prix. The last one was in 2005 though it was rather swanking in that it was at Monaco. However, the ticket I had was for general admission and was a lovely present from Cat. She couldn't come with me so I took my good friend Kieran instead and had a great time on race day watching Kimi Räikkönen emerge victorious driving for McLaren. From what I remember it was an entertaining race, well, as far as races at Monaco go, and I really enjoyed the atmosphere that even us plebs up in the cheap seats (so cheap we were standing) felt a part of it.

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As far as bingo cards go, I don't think I had any of the things that have happened in the last six months or so on mine. For the first time in over twenty years I am single and living on my own and navigating my life in its new form which, at times, has been anything but easy. I don't really want to go into any sort of specifics of the whys and wherefores as, to be quite honest, it's not like it change anything, nor do I think it'll be overly productive. For the most part, though, I've tried to look at the positives and doing my best to put my best foot forward.

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I haven't written here as much as I thought I would this year. Mostly I just kind of forgot and also reminded myself that this is really here for when I want to write something rather than feeling obligated to. Still, I thought I'd have written a bit more but there you go, maybe 2024 will yield more inspiration. This year has been something else, especially the last few months. Lots of things going on, and lots of introspection. Where all that will go next year remains to be seen, I have certain hopes but ultimately some of that is beyond my control and one things I have been really focussing on is concentrating on what I can control, which is myself and how I respond.

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With the watery end to the fourth Ashes test match, I feel ever so slightly sad that its outcome makes the fifth test slightly less compelling. Sure, with a win (or draw), Australia can secure an outright Ashes series win in England for the first time since 2001. With this hanging over the match, England still need to win to avoid a series defeat, something I'm sure they'll be keen to avoid. However, had we seen a result in Manchester, the fifth test at the Oval could have been for all the marbles.

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It's been quite a while since I last posted anything here which is pretty typical and I'm fairly sure on the old WordPress blog there was at least two or three posts that started out with a similar exclamation. In any event, I've not posted anything since February and every time I looked at my site I kept on telling myself that I should write something soon, what about, I wasn't sure but it's not like nothing's been happening. There's been a few small trips, football season here in the ACT has started alongside school for the kids and the resumption of extracurricular activities; including some new ones.

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