Hey Mon? Tell Tom to turn that shit down. Wow, that sounds grating ( Read more... )

Is it gauche or just obligatory to quote Sassoon (Siegfried, not Vidal. Obviously) when you're writing about the First World War? I can never tell ( Read more... )

Spuds happened! This is all rather exciting. Due to the local economy being boned with a capital F-U-C-K we no longer have a greengrocers in town, so if you want vegetables then you have to pay a fortune at the CoOp or genuflect at the creepy corporate feet of Tesco. So I've been attempting to grow my own veggies ( Read more... )

Here I was feeling like a broke, bad tempered hormonal mess and then an angel named Gwyneth Paltrow floated down from Oscar-winning millionaire heaven to tell me that even perfect people suffer from being...well...perfect.

"One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism that I have, and I think that I unconsciously project that because it ( Read more... )

I have a bit of a problem. I don’t like writing endings. I want to get on to the next thing as soon as possible - not one to be intimidated by a blank page. Actually I love a blank page because it means I haven’t fucked anything up yet and I don’t need to do swathes of editing to make whatever is on said page halfway decent ( Read more... )

Hey, badbookworm - here you go! I'm slow, but I get there.

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A little Oilse o' Woight comedy for all of you nervous voters out there. Came across this purely by chance - a local radio 'phone-in with one of the many peculiar fringe parties putting up a PPC on the Island.

Do not listen to this if you have just had stitches or a baby.

The only things floating about this voter are his back teethI had a ( Read more... )

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According to Man, when Woman becomes an election junkie, Man may despair of ever cadging a hot meal ever again. Which is a downright dirty lie, may I say, because I cooked...um...Tuesday? Or was it Monday? Oh, whatever. I cooked! And I cleaned, because the house was getting a bit embarrassing and my landlord's been scrambling about on the roof for ( Read more... )

Mumsy has buggered off again, which means no obsessive-compulsive running around the place cleaning everything up. And means I have to do it. Boooooooo ( Read more... )