I get that you want to protect your business from burglars. I get that. I really do.

But if you allow your alarm to wail unattended for OVER AN HOUR when people are trying to sleep, then you should be shot.

There are no good space-based real time strategy games around these days. And, well, it’s a fairly niche genre, so I suppose it’s understandable. But last week I suddenly had the urge to dig out and re-play Homeworld: Cataclysm, so after much digging through boxes of stuff, I did so. And it was just as good as the last time I played, and even prettier on my current PC than the 650MHz Celeron laptop I originally played it on.

So, if you haven’t played it, and you see it in a bargain bin, snap it up. It really is a bargain.

Opening the store at ten, but not actually opening the checkouts till eleven. Awesome. Thanks, Tesco!

The interview meme. Questions posed by Felinitykat.

1. Have you ever had a burning desire to live somewhere specific? A country or town you’ve never lived in before?

I was going to say “no, but I have occasionally had a burning desire to live somewhere other than where I was (for example, when I was in Middlesbrough)”, but then I remembered the long weekend I spent in Cannes. For some time after that I had quite the burning desire to live there. Lovely place, warm, nice food, boats. Even the occasional film star, although I wasn’t there for that particular weekend. It was all very nice.

2. When you lived in Spain, what did you miss most about the UK? And what was best about living in Spain that you wouldn’t get over here?

I missed my friends and family. Corny, I know, but true. Also, tea.

The best thing was probably all the great pig-based food and how cheap it was. And proper tapas, as in tapas that you just get given when you order a drink in a bar. That was fab.

3. Who do you admire the most?

Tricky question. I can’t really single out any one person, which is a bit of a cop-out, but there you go. Anyone with great talent, or who not only has principles but stands firmly by them, grit, determination, combinations of the aforementioned.

4. What’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for you?

Again, tricky, particularly as with my awful memory I may forget nice things that people might have done, which is terrible of me, but unfortunately true.

However, my brother let me live with him for a while when I was forced to move out of my flat, and he has also helped me move house on several occasions (including helping me hump my stuff back from Spain). That was nice.

5. Are you good at keeping secrets? What’s the best one you’ve ever been told? (ah ha ha, see what I did there?)

Oh, you cunning devil, you. I like to think I am quite good at keeping secrets, partly because I try and keep my word wherever I can and partly because I just forget a great deal of what I’m told.

Best one ever? Not telling.