Wahey, three days off in a row. I've done a bit of shopping, dinner and D&D with the gang at J+C's house which included reading/singing (dubious) poetry to little Stephen, and projectile vomiting from Nats, guaranteed to round off any dinner party. Monday, sorted out a mortgage, yes, we've bought a new Yorkshire Soul mansion, we were running out of servant space in the last one, my boot polisher was having to double up with the man that puts the toothpaste on my brush. Then out for lunch with Mrs YS, little sister and her children, then babysitting for the children. Tuesday, went to see Master and Commander, very good, rather frightening battle scenes, it would appear that you really don't want to be onboard a wooden ship being bombarded, splinters anyone? Then an evening in, pizza and movies, Bruce Almighty (harmless but hardly inspired), Pirates Of The Caribbean (insane/genius performance from Johnny Depp, all the acting ability of a plank from Orlando Bloom, but a great fun movie. We finished the evening by watching half of the extended dvd version of Lord Of The Rings : The Two Towers, run away now to avoid moaning anorak............... It did seem a shame that they cut Tom Bombadil (and the wights) from the first film, I can see why, it would have added another twenty minutes and doesn't add vastly to the story. I was surprised then when Treebeard lays the hobbits down to sleep and says..... "Fear no nightly noises", aha, Tom's line. Then they get swallowed by a tree and have to be rescued by the Ent, if you have not read the book then this all makes perfect sense, if on the other hand you're a fan, or an anorak, this mixing together of two of the books great characters seems a little pointless. So far the added and extended scenes seem pretty good though, the meeting up of the Orcs of Sauron and the Orcs of the White Hand features early on, and this certainly helps to understand the infighting that occurs between the Orcs later on. I am very sorry though for all the folk that purchased the 'original film version' that was released some months ago and now find that they haven't got the full story after all, it's nothing but a dirty rip off.