Not feeling particularly talkative at the moment and I haven't felt like I have anything at all worth saying, so haven't really bothered coming on LJ recently ( Read more... )

It's the worst day of the week in some ways as after you wake up from the unconsciousness of a desperately needed lie-in the rest of the day is a slippery slope down to the insomnia of a Sunday night and work on a Monday ( Read more... )

Last few nights I haven't been sleeping at all well, so much so that I can't be bothered to go to bed tonight. In doing this, I appear to have possibly infected the computer with something - it started playing music and then a dialogue box came up from a website I hadn't gone to and asked me to click it because my computer was infected. I didn't ( Read more... )

Back from holiday, it was a lovely week away. However, I appear to have returned with something strange which gave me the worst migraine I've ever had yesterday (which included an exceedingly vague period of being completely mad in the supermarket yesterday afternoon before the headache and nausea really kicked in ( Read more... )

This is the editorial cartoon in the Guardian today (23/11/09).


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Bad things: Pilates this evening was HARD.  Still not feeling so good in my physical self, but at least I went.  And the pilates instructor is preganant yet again (fourth time in five years!!!), so we'll have to have another break of classes ( Read more... )

Minutes of the meeting typed up and sent out.  Letter to MP tidied up and e-mailed.

However I'm still feeling bad about not writing to my Nana who is sick.  I will phone her tomorrow evening I think (or should I do it tonight?  Is 8.45 too late?)

I got called names the street by some "youf" a couple of weekends ago, and it really, really hurt. It's been a while since I was last called out, and even worse I was with Dave and Claire when it happened, so felt terribly embarrassed and upset about it. No matter how long ago my school days were, the bullying about my appearance that happened ( Read more... )

We've had some fantastic weather here over the last two weeks, including a frost every night and a couple of days where it didn't get above freezing all day.  I took quite a lot of photos and thought I would share some here.

Winter solstice 2007: views overlooking Kendal


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Feeling blue today, partly because I'm really tired and on my second day of a hangover from the work Christmas do ( Read more... )