Listed more or less in the order in which I've read them. Well, as far as I can remember it, anyway, and as many books as I can remember too, for that matter. I only started keeping a written list about a third of the way through 2007, so I may well have missed out a few from the beginning of the year. God knows, reading lists weren't the most ( Read more... )

'Cause counting yr blessings can help you to appreciate 'em ( Read more... )

1. Oh how I miss my digital camera :-( True, I may never have got around to learning how to take half decent photos with it, and yeah, about 80% the crappysnaps I did take were blurred pictures of cats wandering off or deciding to bat at the camera strap the moment the shutter closed, but nevertheless it sucks being without it. I haven't yet ( Read more... )

Irritations and grievances:

1. Darlows were meant to be bringing some folk around to look at the house at 10.30 this morning, so I made sure I was up and decent, didn't go out on any errands, that the house was halfway presentable &c. Noone turned up, and when I rang asking if there was some delay or wot, I was told it had been cancelled, and ( Read more... )

1. After a week in the cold, and much waiting in, the nice man who looks like a ginger Ned Flanders came and fixed the boiler this afternoon. Callooh! Callay! &c. He'd identified that the problem had been a failure in the ignition circuit on Friday, but had to wait for a replacement part to be posted thisaway before he could do owt about it. It ( Read more... )

• stab wound just above right knee, incurred whilst trying to cut down the candle for my Hallowe'en turnip lantern
• puncture wound to the fingertip of my left index finger, the result of trying to unblock an icing bag nozzle with a 3mm thick cake skewer
• burn to right hand, from a very hot saucepan. I hadn't been cooking with it, it was ( Read more... )

i.
The sore throat didn't sod off, turning out instead to be another flippin' infection. Lumpy bumpy tonsils ahoy! I don't feel too awful in (the rest of) myself, though, so I'm trying not to sulk too much about it.

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The cute otters that today's Popbitch linked to really are exceeding cute.


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What w/ having had a daft number of medical appointments of late, getting worryingly obsessed w/ unpicking (and ironing out) old garments for the fabric, general busy-ness, and being utterly shattered in between times, I'm well behind w/ la vie en interpie. Not going to catch up w/ it just now though, I'm afraid, because I have Much To Do ( Read more... )

• lamb cawl
• steamed carrot
• steamed celery
• mashed swede (with black pepper)
• onion gravy

I felt godawful for pretty much the whole of yesterday. Just because. Benefits worry, feeling bad about being late with birthday joy for a friend, worrying about my mother (who is currently Worried), the grey, grey skies, and just plain ol' depression running so heavy through my veins, anxiety pulling every muscle tight. Dreadful. All day long ( Read more... )