WOW

I am fairly well known by my friends for having a taste in actor-y type lust objects that is, well, slightly quirky to say the least. You can keep Brad Pitt. Clooney's ok, but really I'm not bothered enough to fight the 20 deep crowd of women that surrounds him. But Simon Pegg. Then I'd think twice. Now there is a man who is utterly lovely. Intelligent, funny, creative (he did write Spaced and Shaun of the Dead you know) and attractive in a very unconventional way.

Suffice to say, if Simon Pegg is in something I'll make an effort to go and see it. I even saw MI:3 and I have a pathological dislike of gurning midget Tom Cruise that means prior to that I'd refused seeing anything he was in since Interview with the Vampire. Hence I found myself at the Cineworld in Broad Street this week to see SP's new film, Big Nothing, before it got swallowed by all the big Christmas kid-friendly releases.

Life on What's On can be, as one of my friends puts it, 'a social whirl'...
Proof was in the pudding this week, with more lunches and launches than 12 months at NASA.
The highlight was definitely the launch of Fort Dunlop on December 1. Everyone - that was about 2,000 people judging from the lines and lines of people outside - had been given a wristband featuring food and drinks tokens (including one marked 'posh drink' - oooh!). Coaches had been laid on from Colmore Row, as well as Liverpool, Bradford, Bristol and Manchester - where developer Urban Splash http://www.urbansplash.co.ukhas offices.