It's hot in here. Much hotter than outside, probably. I just opened the window. As long as the bugs don't come in...

It's been hot for the last three days, which is odd. I don't want to strengthen the idea of England as a cold, wet, place. It's not like it really rains all that much. At least, not down here in Essex. And it's not cold, as such, just not really warm. But Monday it was 27 degrees C. I even had an icecream! And although it hasn't been quite that hot yesterday and today, it's still hot. Finally, I think this is the summer. Perhaps we'll get another two days or so before Autumn hits. :-)

The other day James was complaining about Holly Valance. Now, I have to admit that a couple of years ago, when I'd finished university and was hanging around the house being unemployed, I did get quite into Neighbours. I thought Flick was a pretty interesting character. Whether she still is, I don't know. Last Thursday the 4,000th episode of Neighbours was shown on BBC 1. That's an awful lot of stupid plot twists.

Anyway, Holly Valance. I've heard worse music. I have a rather poor view of most chart music these days. Occasionally something good slips through, but it's rare. I wonder whether most people feel the same way, or whether it's me. Am I getting old? It has to be the youngsters that spend their pocket money on singles. I usually wait and see if there are a couple of songs I like by someone and then think about buying the album. Except in rare cases. Like Madness and the Gorillaz.

What I object to is that she's decided to get noticed by seemingly being naked in her video. Yes, I know it was a flesh coloured body suit. This is where I realise that I have double standards. Most of the reason I feel... extremely mild dislike...? Anyway, most of the reason is that she said horrible things about Kylie. And part of me knows that she probably never said those things, because the press is evil. And anyway, it's not like I'm a big Kyllie fan. Well, when I was small it was Kylie and Jason mania. (Back to Neighbours again, eh? Although I wasn't allowed to watch it when I was small.)

Okay, I digressed again. I was saying about double standards. The thing about Kylie is that she's a little tiny person that no-one can really take offence at. She seems... nice. Plus she's really pretty. However she achieved her pert bottom. :-p

The pert bottom, that's part of the problem. Some people would say that Kylie wouldn't have gotten where she has without assets like her bottom. And she took all her spacesuit off when she was in a spaceship for one of her videos. It was a pink spacesuit, too, which is just bleugh, basically. Heh. But if Kylie does it, why should I have a problem with Holly Valance doing it? I'm not really sure. I think Miss Valance is maybe trying too hard to usurp Kylie.

Let's face it, it's not going to happen. Apparently, when tickets went on sale yesterday for a Kylie Australian gig, they were gone in a matter of minutes. However you feel about Kylie, she's produced some cracking tunes. And plenty of not so good ones. But the good tunes, they're what people remember. She did it in the 80's, she's still doing it now! Oh yes, I remember dancing around the playground at school to The Locomotion.

However much the kids like Kiss Kiss it's not something you can dance to, is it..?