Did the earth move for you..?

Well, I'm pretty sure that "experience an earthquake" wasn't on my "things to do before you die" list, but at about 1 AM I heard a thud (which I hope isn't going to turn out to be bad news, but so far I haven't spotted anything) and the room shook three or four times. Since I live next to the main railway line into Paddington I assumed it was a train revving its engines, which has a similar effect though with higher frequency. But then I realised I couldn't hear a train, so I chalked it up as traffic or something until I heard the news this morning, and discovered that there had been a 5.2 magnitude earthquake about 120 miles North of me.

It's a shame I didn't know last night, I could have panicked properly then. But never mind...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

has full details, but it seems to have been fairly boring as earthquakes go; more intense than usual for the UK, but so far nobody seems to have been killed and only one person injured, so it could have been one hell of a lot worse.

Dexter comes to Britain

Just noticed Dexter S1 starts on ITV1 at 10.35 tonight - no idea if it has been cut, needless to say it interferes with Torchwood on BBC3 at 9.50-10.40

I could understand it...

( Torchwood spoilers! )

Cheap dragons!

Just noticed an ad for a new partwork called something like "Myths and Monsters" coming out (I think) tomorrow. The first issue is cheaper than the rest, and comes with a red dragon figurine. No idea of size, unfortunately, but if they're biggish I might buy a couple for use with the Tooth and Claw game. Might be useful for other gamers, of course.