I will say again: Heath Ledger is amazing as The Joker. I will purchase the film on BluRay just so I can watch that performance as often as I like. He blows Jack Nicholson out of the water.

Possibly because I've tended to call it by either its original French title, Une Vieille Maitresse, or its title down here, An Old Mistress. Mo. One of the three or four best films I saw last year, anyway:

http://ferdyonfilms.com/2008/01/an-old-mistress-un-vieille-mai.php

When I was leaving the house, I heard a weird report on the BBC that Christian Bale was arrested in London - but they had to cut it off before giving any detail. Hopefully this is just stupid Hollywood-ish fodder, but does anyone know what's going on?

Did you know that Jaguar is now an Indian marque? Of course, like all arrivistes of course, they paid Ford way over the odds for their piece industrial cachet.

(you didn't seriously think i was stuck in a post colonial rut did you?)

And there was me dusting dowm my pith helmet ready to come-over all retired colonel, "Don't you know what!"

Now, though, since Jaguar was offloaded to the Indians, it is very obvious that the little Englanders have had enough. They could just about stomach Jag being American-owned. But with Mr Patel in the hot seat? “Better have another G and T, Maurice. I think I’m going to have a coronary.”

You must have noticed the result. In the past few months the whiff of the 19th hole has been lifted from the Jag range. No longer do you open the door to be knocked senseless by a nauseating cloud of Eau de Belfry.

The smell of Nick Faldo’s trousers has now settled on the Lexus range, and Jags, for the first time since the E-type was given a V12, are being bought by people you’d have round for dinner. And so, with a spring in our step and hope in our hearts, we arrive at the door of the Jaguar XKR.

here...fight this,

from my last trip

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