The most exciting New Year’s Eve for a long time!
I’m usually a bit of a New Year’s humbug, I think it’s over-rated! But this year we decided to give the girls a joint birthday party on New Year’s Eve, so we had to get into the spirit of things a bit 
We had a great time actually, a fair bit of girly screaming and overexcitement but not too much – some games, food, and at midnight some raucous dancing to Jools’ Hootenanny. Think they finally went to sleep sometime after 2am although I’m not sure as that’s when I went to sleep!
Thankfully no-one got up too early – the big girls were first at 8am but they came down and played Wii for a while with the door closed, meaning that the younger girls didn’t wake until nearer 9, and Josiah was up sometime after that, even though he went to bed at 9pm the night before! Breakfast was special cereals (ie all the ones they’re not usually allowed to have!), chocolate crepes and waffles with maple syrup 
Then they all went home and we were going to go out for a walk but rain has stopped play so we’re just having friends over for New Year’s Day dinner later on.
Happy 2007, folks
January 1st, 2007 at 19:51
Thanks for having them Sarah. They had a great time and we’ll no doubt hear about it for weeks. They stayed up a lot later than their boring parents! Now, what are you going to do next year to top this? x
January 1st, 2007 at 20:01
I went to bed. Ah well. Happy new year.
January 1st, 2007 at 21:23
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ME TOO
January 2nd, 2007 at 0:11
Happy New Year!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:25
Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2007 at 14:00
According to Simon Dillon, of the Christian film review website The Greatest Trick, “Borat is a monstrous creation designed to fly in the face of every politically correct notion you can possibly think of, yet despite being misogynistic, homophobic, anti-semitic, and worse, Borat has proved hugely popular, possibly because people are sick and tired of politically correct comedy (surely a contradiction in terms in any case).”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1981685,00.html
January 3rd, 2007 at 14:08
Have you seen it, Alison?
January 3rd, 2007 at 14:12
What, the film, or the Guardian? Haven’t seen the film – quite liked Ali G but have never liked Borat. Bought the paper first thing, but couldn’t get to your blog until now. Left Simon and Mark a comment
Without seeing it, I think I agree more with Stewart Lee’s analysis of political correctness than Simon’s.
January 3rd, 2007 at 14:16
I meant the film. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Borat, but I usually have to watch any film Simon doesn’t recommend, on principle
Still, interesting that the blog got picked up on …
Did you get our Ali G Mii, by the way?!
January 3rd, 2007 at 16:26
Lol, I haven’t looked at it for a few days, will check out our Mii plaza later!
January 3rd, 2007 at 18:57
I quite fancy seeing the film but I’ll have to be in a non-serious mood before hand
January 5th, 2007 at 20:33
Anna you are the best friend in the world! BFFL! p.s. do you still want to go to st. lukes? persuade your mum and dad ‘cos your boyfriend, RORY is going too!
January 5th, 2007 at 20:36
hello Charlotte
January 5th, 2007 at 23:29
The best TRBs comment eva.
January 5th, 2007 at 23:32
Funky Monkey wins the blog!
Is RORY teh hott???????
January 6th, 2007 at 15:28
Rory is really weird and Anna loves him!Rory is growing his hair really long like a girls! I don’t know why Anna asked him to be her boyfriend, they love each other!
January 6th, 2007 at 15:36
hello Sarah, is Anna there?!
January 6th, 2007 at 15:44
January 6th, 2007 at 17:47
hello Anna, sorry, i forgot your mumand dad weren’t supposed to know about Rory! Don’t my punishment too mean! Sarah, i’ve only done 2 comments including this one and loads of comments say that they are from me, funky monkey! I don’t know why! Gotta go now bye!
January 6th, 2007 at 17:49
don’t MAKE my punishment too mean! sorry spelling mistake-typing too fast! I t was 3 comments i did aswell by the way
January 6th, 2007 at 18:53
Oh, I like long hair. And weird boys
Sar, I think you should ground Anna for a month.
January 6th, 2007 at 18:54
So Anna, who does Charlotte fancy?
January 6th, 2007 at 19:05
I don’t fancy anyone and Anna knows that!
January 6th, 2007 at 19:09
Charlotte doesn’t fancy anyone, but I know that Abi fancies Joshua reed and wants to kiss him! Sorry Abs!
January 6th, 2007 at 19:22
She wants to KISS him????? Urrrrrghhhh!
January 6th, 2007 at 19:32
See i don’t fancy anyone! Ha!
January 6th, 2007 at 21:50
must resub to comments rss!!
January 7th, 2007 at 0:48
Yeah, this pre-teen babble is unmissable
Is this what Violet’s going to be like when she goes to school?
January 8th, 2007 at 15:35
just to let you know Sarah it was my brother that wrote as ‘Anna’ on your blog! So sorry, i don’t know how he knew about Abi liking Josh sorry
January 8th, 2007 at 17:33
Hi Sarah (and Alison if you read this). This is the letter I sent back to the Guardian. I doubt they’ll respond, but thought you might be interested.
Dear Sir,
In yesterdays article by Stewart Lee “Guilt Free Pleasuresâ€, the writer inexplicably decided to quote my small-fry movie blog, specifically my review of the Borat film.
I am writing to you because I feel that whilst the quotation was accurate, I have been somewhat quoted out of context. Leaving aside the debate about whether or not political correctness is a good thing, by inference the article suggests that I recommended Borat for being politically incorrect, which I did not. I simply stated why I believed the character was popular amongst some viewers (more on this in a moment). Worse, the placement of that quotation in the article implies that I am a Daily Mail reading right wing loony type, which I am most certainly not.
Furthermore, the point Lee goes on to make by quoting Peter Baynham, with reference to Borat’s antics being clearly portrayed as absurd and unacceptable, is exactly the same point I made later in my article. I quote: “What makes Borat acceptable amongst some is probably the way this absurdly unpleasant character is used to expose the dark prejudices of Middle America.†This is of course a very similar point the one Baynham made, and I read exactly the same thing into the film as he and Lee did.
What I go on to say, and what I believe Lee naively overlooks, is that not everyone will read the same thing into Borat. Again I quote my original article “Obviously, the satire of Borat is hugely sophisticated but will everyone see it that way?†The reality is that regardless of Baynham’s intentions or interpretations made by Lee or myself, there are people out there who will view Borat as funny because he as a character is politically incorrect, not because its a reminder that one shouldn’t be politically incorrect. At the end of the day, you cannot police the reasons why people laugh, and no amount of articles telling people why they should or shouldn’t find something funny will change this.
Ultimately, my review (which was aimed at Christians) concluded that the film would probably be offensive to my readers for an entirely different reason. So in all fairness, to imply I was recommending Borat for being politically incorrect was somewhat unfair. Whether or not I believe political correctness to be a good thing (which generally I don’t) is a seperate issue.
I don’t mind if your writers wish to quote little old me in a national newspaper, but if they do so again, I would appreciate it if the spirit of my original article was not misconstrued. Please read it yourself if you like and make your own judgement.
I would also appreciate it if you would pass on my remarks to Lee, or indeed to your letters department, since I am not a big time reviewer who can stage a right to reply with such a wide audience. I would appreciate a response of some kind, and would happily correspond with Stewart Lee should he wish to debate the matter further.
Sincerely
Simon Dillon
January 8th, 2007 at 20:04
probably Alison – but might hide it better
January 8th, 2007 at 23:01
Interesting letter Simon – will be hoping for response or publication for you
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