Dodgy words and a book and a film

Only words

There's words MM don't like, including:

• Supper;
• Poorly;
• Cross.

I'm with him on the second two: poorly has a built-in sarcasm, a malingerer inference. It sits below rough, and even slightly ill in the sickness stakes. It screams: yeah, off you go, that wouldn't stop me working. Cross: I don't get cross. I go from normal to incandescent in an instant. Why? Because you're going to end up there anyway. Saves doing it in easy stages.

I like 'supper'. Particularly preceded by 'fish'.

Skagboys and Trainspotting

Trainspotting first: apologies to well-hard skinny-looking wimps, but casting Robert Carlyle as Begbie don't work. He's too slight. I've known a bundle of south London Begbie equivalents. Read the books before approaching the wrong big name. Skagboys went back to the library today and onto the next lucky winner of the 60p reservation scheme. I'm now 1 of 1 (apparently) in the queue for Timothy Mo's self-published Pure. Can't wait.