Could Inspector Sands come to the operations room urgently, please.

Does anyone still not know what that means? The non-anglophone tourists, perhaps, but then I doubt their phrasebooks include 'flesh-blistering inferno' either so the announcers might as well use that.

I still haven't tried any of the commentaries on Fellowship of the Ring; it's just too tempting to watch the film in its pure form again. But I did see a couple more of the documentaries. I never cease to be amazed by the utter luvvieness of John Rhys-Davies aka Gimli. But the sweetest revelation was that Liv Tyler made Orlando Bloom give her lifts all the time. If I were Frank N Furter, I couldn't think of a better car to have break down near my castle.