( Fuck's sake. )

first birthday with a dead dad tomorrow. so i have taken thursday off work, and tonight i am sitting in my living room drinking malbec, eating home-made rice pudding, and rummaging about in the cath kidston website for a present for my wee sister (birthday three days after mine). too many overpriced oilcloth items with floral patterns on them, ( Read more... )

via thesme_01 &  lazy_hoor (also, someone, what article or thingy is this from? i saw it somewhere recently pre-memeification but cannot recall where) (oh wait. the hoor's entry is even TITLED "guardian kitchen meme. good reading, eyes, brain ( Read more... )

i had a work meeting the other week down in the central belt. it was, for reasons of proximity to the site we were visiting, & because the local community are invested in attracting tourists to this part of the antonine wall*, held in a miners social club ( Read more... )

attn: hellison and thesme_01:


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( it seems they are multiplying )

clocks have changed; sundown at twenty past four tonight - think i may need to take up migration.

( cutting everything due to sudden unsourced awkwardness )

i have been Cycling About in a land without internet (at least until i have a better phone), dealing with a minor family emergency (which was over by the time i returned and no-one is badly damaged, phew) and attending singa-along-a calamity jane screenings.  and drinking WINES.  meetings tomorrow, driving home the day after, then MY OWN BED HURRAH ( Read more... )

i have lots of thoughts, opinions, feelings and etc. about The Riots, yes? but i also feel like - maybe? - reblogs on tumblr: sometimes not the absolute best way to get at the necessary nuances. YES. NUANCES OF UNDERSTANDING ARE NECESSARY HERE. (if i could work out where the "hash" sign is on a mac keyboard i would also have something to say about ( Read more... )