If you don't already know, England got knocked out of Euro 2008. It was horrible. All we had to do was draw at home against Croatia, and we lost. Our (ex) coach is the biggest footballing idiot known to man. He played a team which proved he had booked a summer holiday before realising it clashed with the competition. Last night involved a lot of shouting at the television, very important - if only I (and the other half of the English population) had shouted a little louder I'm sure we would have won...

Went to see Beowulf on Tuesday. It wasn't great. I felt a bit cheated when I left the cinema. The fact it's computer animated didn't add much. I can't figure out why they did it like that - was it one big experiment, or was it meant to be a comment on the nature of the original work?

There's someone sat next to me, here in the library, with a really strange sniffing affliction! Every 10 seconds or so he sniffs really loudly and abruptly. He must practice it. It doesn't seem like he's sniffing for any medical reason, I think it's purely to annoy people...perhaps he's doing some kind of wind up experiment - Ashton Kutcher/Jeremy Beadle's going to jump out from behind row of books soon. Raine and I have stopped working in the library - it's just too annoying. I think, if I spent the whole year working in the library, I'd have a stroke, or a criminal record...

Also, I know I started the last blog saying how good Eric Taylor's album really is, but I want to repeat that for effect! It's outstanding. If you don't like it the first time, give it another go. I think it's like his live shows, it's comparable to a religious experience! It builds such an atmosphere - like preachers in evangelical churches. You get swept away in it. It's like your favourite novel, the kind where you can walk through the scenes, and be kidnapped by the characters.