My recommendations would be either The Needleworks on City Plaza, or Modern Body Art on Corporation Street. I've not used either premises myself (having moved away from Brum a long time ago now), but I've known the people who run both places for years.
When I drank regularly, probably six pints of Brains SA or a bottle of cheap red wine was required before I actually felt noticeably drunk.
Since I gave up regular drinking 8 years ago I've turned into a complete lightweight, so now a pint of decent bitter or a glass of wine is all it takes to have me tipsy, two and I'm completely rat arsed, at least for an hour or two. I don't know what happens if I drink more than that these days, as I haven't tried.
I very briefly considered trying to register for a ticket to this, but to be honest no band (not even Led Zep) is worth £125 a ticket, even for a one-off performance.
I'll probably spend the evening at home with a couple of good bootlegs, that way I'm guaranteed a great concert.
I did most of an NVQ III a few years ago and whilst the work was easy all of the admin, cross-referencing etc was enough to make me swear never to do an NVQ ever again. In comparison, doing an OU diploma was much less work overall, for a better qualification, as I could spend the time learning rather than doing admin.
A pack of Wolves is unlikely to be a serious danger to even a lone human, as I'd find it hard to think of a circumstance in which we'd be considered a good meal, and with all the modern kit that we tend to wear and carry, we smell completely 'wrong'. They're much more of a danger to family pets than family members, not to mention sheep, which were the main reason they were originally hunted to extinction.
Personally, I quite like the idea of reintroducing previously native species to the UK, where they died out as a result of hunting or predation by humans. Most of the species this has been tried with successfully so far are birds (mainly birds of prey, but also Bustards on Salisbury Plain). I think European Beavers (hunted to extinction for their fur) could be reintroduced very successfully, and escaped wild boar and boar/pig hybrids have shown that whether we like it or not they can survive.
I'll admit that introducing large omnivores and facultative carnivores like bears or wolves requires a lot more care. I'm not particularly worried by what they might do to humans, more by what they might do to domestic animals and what the human response might be.
I thought Trainspotting was a pretty good adaptation of the book, and personally I think Peter Jackson did a damn good job with the Lord of the Rings, certainly in the extended versions of the films, if not quite in the theatrical release.
I can think of at least two instances where book and film were both written in parallel, which I think works very well. The two I know of are 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Abyss.
Possibly the worst example I can think of for an adaptation would be A View to a Kill - in it's original form a wonderful short story, when it came time to make the film they took the name and ditched everything else.
Incidentally, somebody mentioned that Catch 22 would betricky to do because of it's non-linear narrative and large battle scenes. Personally I can think of films that have been successful despite being non-linear (Pulp Fiction is the one that immediately springs to mind), and large aerial battles are something that CGI got it's collective head around five years ago (the scene in Band of Brothers where they drop into Normandy would be an excellent example of what could be achieved even back then).
Mrs. DP and I met because we were working on the same site, but it was huge (well over 4,000 members of staff IIRC), and if things hadn't worked out we wouldn't have had to work with each other, and probably wouldn't have bumped into each other very often at work. We actually met whilst waiting for the same bus home outside the hospital gates.
Snow in South Shields this morning, but not much, just an inch or so.
Actually this is a very valid point, given that in certain parts of the country swingers clubs seem to have set up operation in gay saunas, and are effectively running two different (albeit related) businesses in the same premises - catering to gay men during the day, and swingers a few evenings a week, and possibly one or two days at the weekend. Certainly that's how the one closest to me runs it's business. There's a number of reasons why I think clubs might have adopted this business model, but that's not really relevant to the question, which was simply is there anywhere to go in the daytimes.
Then I grew a beard and started losing my hair, and since then people consistently reckon I'm about 5-10 years older than I am. This was generally a good thing when I was 20, but less so now I'm 30.
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