If you have seen the film and have siblings and/or are the parent of children please answer the following question(s).

In what order did your parents refer to you and your siblings? Alternatively, in what order do you refer to your own children?

Is there anybody other than Cobb who doesn't do it in age order? In my family, it was always Alison, Karen, Hazel. It was never any other permutation. Why would Cobb refer to his children in the wrong order? It is either part of the plot or the children were cast in disregard to their actual age.

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I was happy to read today that Anne Reid has been made a MBE although I was rather taken aback that she wasn't at least that already. You'd think being Ken Barlow's wife would have been enough but when you add in Wendolene and Jean in dinnerladies and a host of other excellent performances I really was rather surprised.

If I had been given an honour years ago I would have been thrilled (and also puzzled because I haven't actually ever done anything) but now I think I would refuse one. I blame Benjamin Zephaniah for opening my eyes.

I am very interested in who have refused one and always disappointed when it turns out they were just waiting for a better one…: however, according to a leaked document, the painter LS Lowry turned down the most honours and I do note that Emma Thompson still hasn't got one (don't let let me down).

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Best case scenario: the Con-Lib coalition becomes hugely unpopular because of the cuts that any government has to make. Labour come to power at the next election but only after dumping their commitment to every illiberal law they have made and on a mandate to have a referendum on effective proportional representation.

And I will never vote for any of the three main parties ever again. I should add that I have only ever voted for one of them.

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We spent ten hours today painting our living room. Very tiring but at least it's finished. We are getting Vitsoe shelving and we also need new dining chairs. We don't need but we are also buying a new amplifier and new speakers.

Spot the cat:

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This feature from script to finished page of Felicia Day's The Guild from Dark Horse is excellent.

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The majority of the artists featured were also men: Siri Hustvedt and Jenny Holzer notable exclusions.

I wonder if it's any coincidence that this series was generally pretty dull from my point of view.

What makes it more galling is that the editor and the executive producers of the show are women.

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Heathrow is still closed. I feel for all the folks stranded, and the farmers who grow us out of season beans and flowers, etc, but I can’t help loving the silence (relative silence!) in this part of west London. This is just the sort of weather conditions that results in planes taking off in our direction (they usually head over Windsor) so it is genuinely lovely not to hear the bloody things.

And one of my pix was used on Londonist!

Nurse Jackie has only been okay this season simply because Jackie’s story is just not engaging me: I don’t get why she was having an affair with Eddie (except for the easy access to drugs) when Kevin is so great and I also don’t care at all about Eddie himself. If it wasn’t for O’Hara, Zoey and this season’s much better written Akalitis (and the marvellous actors playing them), I’d be considering giving it up.

FlashForward is worse than S2 of Heroes and like S2 of Heroes I keep watching it. There is something wrong with me.

I miss Desert Islands Discs – when it’s back?

Interesting discussion and links indicating that Lysol was used a lot as a contraceptive.

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