So, I am sat on the floor of the house in which I now reside. I moved about 2 1/2 weeks ago and am now housemates with writerdahling and Biscuit, her very handsome and adorable lap-whore of a cat. Seriously, he's a total lap-whore - you know the 3-second rule in which you can nick someone's seat if they've vacated it for 3 seconds? Biscuit has his own 3-second ( Read more... )

I have been utterly dreadful about keeping up with LJ recently. I've not even been reading my friends list, let alone posting! I've not been having a great time of it - the weather, a chest infection that won't quite shift, a cold I got whilst still in the throes of the chest infection, now I've got something that's knocked me sideways a bit...

I ( Read more... )

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I've not updated for ages, partly because I keep forgetting and partly because my laptop died 2 weeks ago. I have a new one, which I got yesterday, but either it or my internet aren't co-operating. I'm waiting till Friday before I do anything about it because it could just be that somehow I've hit my monthly limit (when you do that with Virgin, ( Read more... )

The following is no joke, no prank, no leg-pull - after all, it's October 12th, not April 1st and it's also gone midday.

Atos are sponsoring the Paralympics.

http://planetpmc.blogspot.com/2011/10/threat-of-boycott-as-atos-healthcare.html

I'm not surprised, in all honesty. DIsgusted, appalled, horrified, etc. - definitely. But not surprised because of ( Read more... )

It's been some time since I last posted because my Internet has been insanely slow and things don't want to load. It's fine again now. It's done this before so the conclusion I've drawn from this is that it's Virgin's way of stopping you going too far over your monthly limit. Which makes sense, really, and despite all the frustration during those ( Read more... )

So, first off, Atos (the private company that does the medical assessments for the Government) have admitted that my medical report "contained deficiencies" - which for them is like the Catholic Church in years gone by admitting that the Earth is not actually the centre of the solar system after all ( Read more... )